I just completed a ring using this process except I used the drill press with router mount tooling. The process worked great but I have to practice a bit more to get exact wood mandrel sizing, bentwood core sizing and final trim. The table tapping and the T-Bit requires some practice. Even with some flaws in my ring, I am really pleased by what I learned. I think yours is the best process to get a strong wooden ring. Thanks for sharing this!
This is a crazy neat set up!! I’ve always seen ring done with a lathe but I feel like the precision with this set up is way better and faster not to mention more versatile for use with other projects!
have been following your ring making videos and your technique for a while and have always thought I could do the same with my wood lathe and it would be better than a router and drill press. But now that you've incorporated the incra positioner to the mix, it's a great approach for repeatability with consistent accuracy - even if you do have a wood lathe! great job. Looking forward to more!
Wow! I love seeing this kind of precision in woodworking. Very creative and the Incra positioner looks great for this. Thanks for a great video and instruction.
Great looking ring, but I'm a little confused, if you are making blocks of the composite layers, why not just make foot long blocks, that you can shave off a thin layer to wrap on the outside? Thanks for the video.
Love seeing how you've dialed-in your process. Great interface between the drill and router. I have the same Incra setup on my table saw, but not at the router table. Must..not..spend..more...money..in..shop...this..year...uggh.
That's a very cool idea! Fascinating how you worked out separating the ring at the end. I'd really like to see how that DIY drill press works if used as an actual drill press. It looks very well made.
Thank you, that was very interesting to see. I was looking for ways to start making my own beads, and found rings instead. Lots of ideas, thanks again.
Your precision process is very impressive but a bit daunting for the result. Kind of like a $3000 set up for a $30.00 product. If someone has the Incra Ls positioner, they will have found another use. I salute your talent and your attention to detail.
Awesome product and video. But the name is a bit missleading. Yeah you used a router table but the jig over top of it and especially the incrometer fence makes it wayyy more than just a "router table"
Awesome! Love woodworking and rings... Been making coin rings, want to incorporate the two somehow! Imagination and trial and error! Beautiful rings sir! Just subscribed look forward to more of your videos!
I've been using your methods for about two weeks now and have some great success!!!!!!!! I'm using under mounted router on bench top drill press...... just like you...... i really like the micro jig you have and will be saving for it in the future. You can see what I've made on Facebook at Bethesda Woodworks if you like. Thank you for the great idea!!!!!!!
Did I miss something? Was the router bit on the bottom table moving, or just use the drill press to hold a trim router to spinning the ring blank, or both? Cool idea but I watched twice and still not sure what I seen.
Very nice work and the precision you've accomplished is nothing short of amazing. Question for you - I've recently made my own wedding ring and used a wood turners water based finish, which seems to be pretty close to a polycrylic like product. Have you ever used anything similar? How does your super glue finish hold up over time? Does it yellow or crack? I plan on making a couple of backups... I'm not real sure how long my first ring will last. Any advice you might have will be helpful for the next couple I make!
Superglue holds up great. Lasts several months if you wear it daily even showering, swimming and hot tub. I'm a healthcare worker so I wash my hands dozens of times daily and almost never take off my ring. If it gets a little ratty just put a quick coat or two on and it's like new again. But I rarely have to do that. Going to experiment with the minwax wood hardener soon to see if it give the rings even a bit more life.
Hi Selandry1, First thanks for the great video, Like Bryan, I too made my own ring for my wedding in last may. I used a filed down titanium ring as the core and finished the outside with a piece of Cuban mahogany. I finished the outside with CA glue, but have noticed a few rough spots over the past 5 months. I'm planning to re-finish the outside but was wondering how often you refinish your rings? monthly? yearly? I'm just wondering if i want to try a finish other than CA
I have only used superglue and it seems to hold up to about 2 months of every day wear before I have to refinish it which only takes me about 15 minutes. Keep in mind that I never take my ring off and work in an ER so I us hand sanitizer about 40 times a day which Im sure greatly accelerates wear on the finish. And it does not yellow. Glad to hear you made your own ring. Did you use my method?
It wasn't quite your method, I watched numerous videos for different rings. I ended up using an existing Titanium ring which was my size, filing/sanding it down to a thickness of 1mm (sanding titanium is a slow process) I did sand while the ring was mounted on my drill press, so you could probably claim some of the inspiration for that. I then stabilized a piece of Cuban mahogany which I made my wife's ring box out of. Once stabilized I drilled out the inside and slowly sanded the inside until the Ti ring fit within it. Glued it up. Mounted it on the drill press again and sanded down the outside then finished with CA glue. So not quite your method but your video did help. Thanks
NOOD FIPPLE Sorry. I cut that out because I thought it was getting a little too long and boring. Honestly the whole finishing process would probably require a whole new video. I would recommend watching some pen turning videos on how to finish using CA glue. That's how I learned.
i haven't had much luck finding visual help with the inside of rings shaping/sanding/applying finish ect but i love your way of making these and i have so many questions lol, ultimately i'm just using a nova chuck for what you made out of a wine cork. do you make your own dowels? and are your "sandwiches" 2x2 square or 1 1/2" square? and if you ever make a video on the finishing process it would be amazing to know which grits you go through ect, Thanks for your time
emperor trajan360 I bought mine from woodcraft. Also available on amazon if you are in the US. Here is a link to the incra LS video. m.ua-cam.com/video/VOnIVCGRXXAh/v-deo.htmlttps://m.ua-cam.com/video/VOnIVCGRXXA/v-deo.html
What was the size of the router bits? I ran to Woodcraft today and saw there were several to choose from. Thanks, I really want to make rings and my goal is multiple rings per day.. Thanks for posting these videos. The best on rings I've seen. Ed~
Edward, The bits is a 1/4" downcut spiral bit. Glad you liked the video. I am going on 2 years and still tweaking my process. It takes a lot of trial and error to get a ring right. I still consider myself a novice. Good luck.
+Selandry1 Very cool. Any suggestions on the length of the 2 bits? (For the trim router set up) The rings are awesome. I am just getting started with rings and hope to find a good process that allows me to make them in short order... Edward~
Thanks so much! I still make rings. Stopped making videos to keep my channel from being redundant. My channel is for unique woodworking tips and making rings is only a small part of my woodworking. I mainly make furniture. Thanks again. BTW I was toying with the idea about making a ring refinishing video.
Well there're so many stupid videos about making wood rings and yours are really good. Anyway I wish you goodluck and hope to see more video of you. G-d bless you.
Really awesome job you did there! What is that thing with the micro adjust called? I'm German and though my English is not bad, I have trouble to acoustically understanding some words I've never heard before. Thanks in advance!
Hi You have a good process, but it does seem to be quite time consuming. No doubt it is quicker in real life than on the video :-). Why not (try and) make yourself one or more expanding mandrels. Expanding mandrels are used quite often in the metal / engineering industry. When you have finished the outside of the ring, just release the mandrel to remove the ring.
That incremental fence adjustment is great but far too expensive for me. I need to look at the finest thread bar with the largest thread per inch count I can find and see if I can improvise.
Make anyvwith spalted wood yet or burl? I made a walnut n maple ring and. Mahogany and rock maple. So far..they arent as nice as yours . i polish my. Ca glue. Fonish with 0000 steel wool
In theory , with the bentwood inner core, could you bypass 24hour set time, but instead using the five min epoxy used during the “ wood sandwich “ glue up ? I’m in the process of adding bentwood cores to my current batch of rings I’m working on.
I feel like this would be a lot simpler with a bench top metal lathe (you can use a metal lathe for wood but not vise-versa). Seems over complicated to use 2 opposing rotations and it seems like doing that would cause binding which could make any imperfections in the wood cause splitting and splintering.
I Love the Rings You made but I don't own a Router Table or That Micro Fence you have and for the cost of the tools you used I could buy a Benchtop Mini Metal Lathe and Accomplice the same results & precision you did for less than $500! Great Job Tho !
Finished product was great but most of what you did made no sense to someone that has never seen any of this before. Couple times you literally said theres other videos you can figure this part out or its up to you to figure out. Again really neat product but video details very subpar.
I like how you skipped right past the sandwich making part. It's the only thing anyone cared about. The rest is just robot non-craftsman garbage that true artisans shun.
What's more hands on than a hand made ring? Made by a guy who made his own Drillpress because he fears machines that may someday replace the worker and then take over the world😳
i was gobsmacked when i saw you use the plane shaving...how innovative. well done fella
One of the best ring making videos regarding explanation.
beautiful rings, and great improvisation on the tools. Now off to the Drill press video.
Using the "Pilot Drill Holder" from the HoleSaw Cutter was Genius. I was thinking a "Collet" type method initually
I just completed a ring using this process except I used the drill press with router mount tooling. The process worked great but I have to practice a bit more to get exact wood mandrel sizing, bentwood core sizing and final trim. The table tapping and the T-Bit requires some practice. Even with some flaws in my ring, I am really pleased by what I learned. I think yours is the best process to get a strong wooden ring. Thanks for sharing this!
Dave Robbie
Glad to hear it. How did it turn out?
This is a crazy neat set up!! I’ve always seen ring done with a lathe but I feel like the precision with this set up is way better and faster not to mention more versatile for use with other projects!
have been following your ring making videos and your technique for a while and have always thought I could do the same with my wood lathe and it would be better than a router and drill press. But now that you've incorporated the incra positioner to the mix, it's a great approach for repeatability with consistent accuracy - even if you do have a wood lathe! great job. Looking forward to more!
WOW! what a skill. had no idea that sort of thing could be done with a router and drill.
You definitely have the most creative rings hands down.
Wow! I love seeing this kind of precision in woodworking. Very creative and the Incra positioner looks great for this. Thanks for a great video and instruction.
Dave Robbie
Thanks Dave. Where have I met you before? Lumberjocks? Or UA-cam?
Brilliantly well thought out. Truly an excellent technique brother.
Great looking ring, but I'm a little confused, if you are making blocks of the composite layers, why not just make foot long blocks, that you can shave off a thin layer to wrap on the outside? Thanks for the video.
That ring is gorgeous. I could definitely rock one of those...though I have no ability to make my own.
Love seeing how you've dialed-in your process. Great interface between the drill and router. I have the same Incra setup on my table saw, but not at the router table. Must..not..spend..more...money..in..shop...this..year...uggh.
That's a very cool idea! Fascinating how you worked out separating the ring at the end. I'd really like to see how that DIY drill press works if used as an actual drill press. It looks very well made.
You are very clever how you even thought about doing this is so good I will just enjoy watching.
Thank You
Thats one posh workshop 😍
Damn. I wish someday I could be at this skill level with my wood working. This is awesome. Great job.
Really love your clear and precise instructions. no nonsense highly skilled beautiful result
Anthony James Brown
Thanks for the nice comment. When I make a video I try to make it as short as possible.
finally someone who said super glue instead of saying CA glue
Thank you, that was very interesting to see. I was looking for ways to start making my own beads, and found rings instead. Lots of ideas, thanks again.
Great technique.
thumbs up . i like the press you made pretty awesome . nice rings , awesome incra jig
I do the same kind of work. of course I'm dreaming..all kidding aside Great work. and very informative and easy to follow video.
Your precision process is very impressive but a bit daunting for the result. Kind of like a $3000 set up for a $30.00 product. If someone has the Incra Ls positioner, they will have found another use. I salute your talent and your attention to detail.
That is a really neat technique for making rings!
Wow!! Thanks for sharing with us!!💜💜💜
Incredible wood artistry. 👍
Very Nice, i love this
nice job and that incra jig is sweeeet!
Would love some info on that milling adjustment fence! That looks like an awesome build. Great runs as well! Subbed!
Awesome product and video. But the name is a bit missleading. Yeah you used a router table but the jig over top of it and especially the incrometer fence makes it wayyy more than just a "router table"
Awesome! Love woodworking and rings... Been making coin rings, want to incorporate the two somehow! Imagination and trial and error! Beautiful rings sir! Just subscribed look forward to more of your videos!
Thanks. I have watched a few coin videos. They are nice.
I've been using your methods for about two weeks now and have some great success!!!!!!!! I'm using under mounted router on bench top drill press...... just like you...... i really like the micro jig you have and will be saving for it in the future. You can see what I've made on Facebook at Bethesda Woodworks if you like.
Thank you for the great idea!!!!!!!
Bethesda Woodworks
They look very nice. Good work!
Selandry1 not quite as good as yours.....but working on it.... my biggest issue has been the cherry band.. getting it not to thin or thick
Warning though. Making rings is addicting.
Selandry1 I'm already considering a 12 step program
Great project thanks
This is just awesome work. Lovely rings!
Awesome content sir. I have learned a few things today. Those rings are gorgeous.
I am in awwww oh the precision.
I'm gonna pawn my gold ring & make me one from wood slivers & CA glue..
My wife will never even know.. Buy a guitar with the proceeds..HaHa!!
That was brilliant.
Did I miss something? Was the router bit on the bottom table moving, or just use the drill press to hold a trim router to spinning the ring blank, or both? Cool idea but I watched twice and still not sure what I seen.
Beautiful. Unfortunately not all of us have the incra jig available. Could you please send me the plans for the drill mounting jig used in this
Check out my channel. I made a video of the jig or drill press. Sorry for the delay. Just caught this.
Good job and beautiful from france 🙋
Artist!
Very nice work and the precision you've accomplished is nothing short of amazing. Question for you - I've recently made my own wedding ring and used a wood turners water based finish, which seems to be pretty close to a polycrylic like product. Have you ever used anything similar? How does your super glue finish hold up over time? Does it yellow or crack? I plan on making a couple of backups... I'm not real sure how long my first ring will last. Any advice you might have will be helpful for the next couple I make!
Superglue holds up great. Lasts several months if you wear it daily even showering, swimming and hot tub. I'm a healthcare worker so I wash my hands dozens of times daily and almost never take off my ring. If it gets a little ratty just put a quick coat or two on and it's like new again. But I rarely have to do that. Going to experiment with the minwax wood hardener soon to see if it give the rings even a bit more life.
super
Hi Selandry1, First thanks for the great video, Like Bryan, I too made my own ring for my wedding in last may. I used a filed down titanium ring as the core and finished the outside with a piece of Cuban mahogany. I finished the outside with CA glue, but have noticed a few rough spots over the past 5 months. I'm planning to re-finish the outside but was wondering how often you refinish your rings? monthly? yearly? I'm just wondering if i want to try a finish other than CA
I have only used superglue and it seems to hold up to about 2 months of every day wear before I have to refinish it which only takes me about 15 minutes. Keep in mind that I never take my ring off and work in an ER so I us hand sanitizer about 40 times a day which Im sure greatly accelerates wear on the finish. And it does not yellow. Glad to hear you made your own ring. Did you use my method?
It wasn't quite your method, I watched numerous videos for different rings. I ended up using an existing Titanium ring which was my size, filing/sanding it down to a thickness of 1mm (sanding titanium is a slow process) I did sand while the ring was mounted on my drill press, so you could probably claim some of the inspiration for that. I then stabilized a piece of Cuban mahogany which I made my wife's ring box out of. Once stabilized I drilled out the inside and slowly sanded the inside until the Ti ring fit within it. Glued it up. Mounted it on the drill press again and sanded down the outside then finished with CA glue.
So not quite your method but your video did help. Thanks
Why not use a hole saw, one for the inside and then one size for the outside of it.
Maybe a Laser would be faster or a cnc router.
Since I can't search comments, I'm probably asking a repeat question. How did you make the veneer that flexible, and still gluable?
Your technique and ingenuity are amazing though I question using $5000 work of other tools when you could get a $350 lathe and simplify the process
i was hoping to see how you finished the inside of the ring sanding/applying CA ect
NOOD FIPPLE
Sorry. I cut that out because I thought it was getting a little too long and boring. Honestly the whole finishing process would probably require a whole new video. I would recommend watching some pen turning videos on how to finish using CA glue. That's how I learned.
i haven't had much luck finding visual help with the inside of rings shaping/sanding/applying finish ect but i love your way of making these and i have so many questions lol, ultimately i'm just using a nova chuck for what you made out of a wine cork. do you make your own dowels? and are your "sandwiches" 2x2 square or 1 1/2" square? and if you ever make a video on the finishing process it would be amazing to know which grits you go through ect, Thanks for your time
smart ,i like it . they look great , best ive seen , not a fan of using veneer , but yeah looks nice
Great ingenuity!
i don't get that superglue finish..can you use any superglue or does it have to be some special superglue?
out of curiosity, why don't you use a lathe with an x/y table?
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
I cant find the Incra positioner. Any help would be great!
emperor trajan360
I bought mine from woodcraft. Also available on amazon if you are in the US. Here is a link to the incra LS video. m.ua-cam.com/video/VOnIVCGRXXAh/v-deo.htmlttps://m.ua-cam.com/video/VOnIVCGRXXA/v-deo.html
excellent work! Q: Do you reseal the inside after final sanding?
Incredibly cool. THanks for the vid
clever using the t bit
If i want to buy one how much would it cost
I wanna buy one of those rings
What was the size of the router bits? I ran to Woodcraft today and saw there were several to choose from. Thanks, I really want to make rings and my goal is multiple rings per day.. Thanks for posting these videos. The best on rings I've seen. Ed~
Edward,
The bits is a 1/4" downcut spiral bit. Glad you liked the video. I am going on 2 years and still tweaking my process. It takes a lot of trial and error to get a ring right. I still consider myself a novice. Good luck.
+Selandry1 Very cool. Any suggestions on the length of the 2 bits? (For the trim router set up) The rings are awesome. I am just getting started with rings and hope to find a good process that allows me to make them in short order... Edward~
You make nice videos about wood rings and I love it, why did you stop it?
Thanks so much! I still make rings. Stopped making videos to keep my channel from being redundant. My channel is for unique woodworking tips and making rings is only a small part of my woodworking. I mainly make furniture. Thanks again. BTW I was toying with the idea about making a ring refinishing video.
Well there're so many stupid videos about making wood rings and yours are really good. Anyway I wish you goodluck and hope to see more video of you. G-d bless you.
Really awesome job you did there!
What is that thing with the micro adjust called? I'm German and though my English is not bad, I have trouble to acoustically understanding some words I've never heard before. Thanks in advance!
It's the Incra LS positioner. Thanks for the compliment.
Hi
You have a good process, but it does seem to be quite time consuming. No doubt it is quicker in real life than on the video :-).
Why not (try and) make yourself one or more expanding mandrels. Expanding mandrels are used quite often in the metal / engineering industry. When you have finished the outside of the ring, just release the mandrel to remove the ring.
well that's cool, thanks for sharing!!
What glue did you use I tried super glue from one of our food stores and it ha very little shine
The result look very nice, but the way is not the most effective one. Why not use a lathe?
That incremental fence adjustment is great but far too expensive for me. I need to look at the finest thread bar with the largest thread per inch count I can find and see if I can improvise.
how much total time would it take you to make that ring , not including waiting for the epoxy or ca glue to dry?
African Cichlids about 60-90minutes.
Pretty nice. How much can u sell one for
Make anyvwith spalted wood yet or burl? I made a walnut n maple ring and. Mahogany and rock maple. So far..they arent as nice as yours . i polish my. Ca glue. Fonish with 0000 steel wool
I see a new direction for my woodworking future! Do you use this setup to make pens?
3 years old joke, and one like
Ingenius!
In theory , with the bentwood inner core, could you bypass 24hour set time, but instead using the five min epoxy used during the “ wood sandwich “ glue up ?
I’m in the process of adding bentwood cores to my current batch of rings I’m working on.
Perhaps, but the epoxy makes sure to fill all the voids and is super durable.
I feel like this would be a lot simpler with a bench top metal lathe (you can use a metal lathe for wood but not vise-versa). Seems over complicated to use 2 opposing rotations and it seems like doing that would cause binding which could make any imperfections in the wood cause splitting and splintering.
Hi do you sell your rings you make very cool wood like to have one Thanks Jamie
I just make them for my girls and wife. Thanks.
How do u decide ring sizes ?
I have a ring sizer and use it to fit the rings and help with the diameter of the mandrel the rings are mounted to.
really liked it
amigo, seu serviço é muito bom, mas o sistema de produçao demora muito. Eu faço anéis e aliança no torno, é muito mais rapido
Wow. Thanks for your video. Now I can melt my gold one n make a real wooden ring.
two ballast fluorescent fixture
Very nice work thankyou
I Love the Rings You made but I don't own a Router Table or That Micro Fence you have
and for the cost of the tools you used I could buy a Benchtop Mini Metal Lathe and
Accomplice the same results & precision you did for less than $500! Great Job Tho !
Agreed. Thanks for the compliment on the rings.
You Quite Welcome & They Are Beautiful !
What's your point
How much for you charge for rings. I'm thinking about proposing to my ex and woodworking is a big part of my life. I think it would be appropriate
why not just get a lathe? much cheaper than this setup and more fun to play with :)
Chemical rings. Look, how had had rings in the century 12, however,,:)
Bro, it's called a lathe and sand paper... way more straight forward. lol
Thats a lot of tooling to make a ring.
There are way easier ways to do it.
Each to their own i guess
do it yourself , go to woodprix page and learn how .
Finished product was great but most of what you did made no sense to someone that has never seen any of this before. Couple times you literally said theres other videos you can figure this part out or its up to you to figure out. Again really neat product but video details very subpar.
I don’t want to be redundant.
Micro adjust
Indeed.
I know that woodprix has the best woodworking plans ever.
Excellent to see that woodprix has new plans what helped me save some money and energy to build it.
I like how you skipped right past the sandwich making part. It's the only thing anyone cared about. The rest is just robot non-craftsman garbage that true artisans shun.
Dude you have way too many toys. What happened to hands on?
What's more hands on than a hand made ring? Made by a guy who made his own Drillpress because he fears machines that may someday replace the worker and then take over the world😳