How We Make Our Engagement Rings


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Mens Engagement Rings

All of the mens engagement rings available online are completely hand made to order, giving you a truly unique ring. A brief summary of how we make our men’s engagement rings is listed below.

  1. A bar of the chosen metal called a wire is rolled and drawn through formers to create the particular size and profile of the ring e.g.6mm court shape.
  2. The profiled wire is then cut to the approximate ring size of the customer.
  3. The wire is then heated which softens it allowing it to be shaped into a ring.
  4. After cooling the ring is soldered using a solder the same quality as the metal used i.e. 18ct gold solder, and then filed and smoothed off.
  5. A ring mandrel is used to hammer the ring into a perfectly circular shape.
  6. A ring sizer tool is used to make small adjustments to the ring and make sure it’s the perfect size.
  7. The ring is now finished off by being filed and polished which ensures the ring looks beautiful.

Engagement Rings

Most of our ladies engagement rings are semi handmade made up of at least two parts the setting and the ring/shank. A brief summary of how we make engagement rings can be found below.

  1. A jewellery design is chosen which is then made into a life sized scale model, this is sometimes done by hand or on the computer by a jewellery designer.
  2. A finalised master model is made using mainly silver.
  3. To exactly replicate the design the master model is placed between sheets of soft un-vulcanised rubber.
  4. The sheets of un-vulcanised rubber and model are then placed into a press which is heated to harden and vulcanise the rubber.
  5. When cool the rubber and model are removed from the press, the model is removed which leaves a cavity in the rubber.
  6. Hot wax is injected into the cavity and left to go solid after which the wax can be removed.
  7. The wax models are attached to a wax stand called a tree – usually with many other wax models so it ends up looking like a tree.
  8. The tree is covered by a metal flask to which a special plaster is added. The flask is placed in a vacuum chamber to remove all of the air from the plaster to ensure a perfect finish.
  9. When the plaster is ready the flask is placed into a low oven so the wax can melt away leaving a cavity for whichever metal is intended.
  10. The oven’s temperature is increased so the plaster is hardened and ready for the molten metal of choice. The hot flask is then removed and placed inside a centrifugal casting machine.
  11. In a crucible using a hot torch the metal of choice is melted and added to the hot flask, the casting machine then spins the flask at high speed which forces the metal into the cavities.
  12. The flask is cooled down in water and the plaster breaks away leaving the tree and castings in gold etc.
  13. Individual castings are removed from the tree, and are smoothed down and then sent off to be hallmarked at the Assay office.
  14. When the parts are returned they are mounted by our ring mounters who solder the parts together, and the diamonds are set by the diamond setters.
  15. Finally the ring is filed and polished which brings out the true beauty of the metal.



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