Everything You Need to Know to Make Spoon Rings Like A Pro

up there we go, it's a lot more compact, it still doesn't have 100 rounds, you can see strange little containers, especially here, so we're going to move this to the smaller size again so that once you have all that to your liking you can try it on. your chuck and it should be around a size seven, which stops right there if you run into any kind of weird kinks or something, which I still have some of, you can put it on the chuck itself and you can hammer it in using your rawhide mallet. to shape

everything

a little better and if it gets too big you can put it back in the ring bender and shrink it again so that with your

rings

ready and

everything

you're going to want to pick out you can finish. do a high polish like I did on this one you could do more mat like I did on this one or if you really want to do it you can do a rainbow cape like this which I haven't seen anyone else do and I'm going to show you how to do this and it's pretty unique because you can get this pretty rainbow look.

That said, this is the ring we just made, at least one of them doesn't have any plating here so it won't turn into rainbow, any silver part won't turn rainbow, any part that isn't will turn gold or colored gold, so you can see that this has blues and stuff because there's still silver, but this top part doesn't have silver. It's not in it anymore, so it's really up to you what you're looking for and what you want your look to be. You can silver this using a pin before you put it on what I'm about to show you and I'll have links in the description to everything I'm talking about in this video that might be a solution for you, but you're probably thinking how to get this crazy rainbow color.

Well, it's actually very simple and very smelly, all you really

need

. it's this stuff that's liver of sulfur and as you can see I'm wearing gloves because this stuff will stain your hands like a greenish yellow if you get it on so I don't want you to also

need

two cups of hot water so just take a little of your little liver sulfur and put it in the water and use something to stir it up. This will smell like rotten eggs and that's completely normal, so I'm just going to grab one of my

rings

. and put it in the solution   and just move it around a little bit  and then put it in the water solution   or just normal water and rinse it  and

make

sure everything is hot and you'll end up with this interesting look and You can do this over and over again with any of your parts.

You will notice that the place where we cut it is nice and shiny even because it is a different metal. Like I was saying, it will eventually turn gold if you keep doing this, but say: If you want your ring to be just black, you'll just leave it in the liver sulfur for about 10 minutes or more and then you'll come back to it and rinse it and it'll be black. . The other thing is that you want to

make

sure your piece is black. clean it, so clean it with soap and water so there's no oil or anything, that's another reason to wear gloves and I did a quick polish on this one, it's not made into a ring yet, obviously, but I'm going to show you that I don't

know

.

It takes a lot for this to work so just a little bit turned it gold and that's it, now it's pretty and it has a rainbow on it so that's pretty much all you need to

know

to start making these types of rings and how can you See, You have a lot of options and a lot of freedom to do what you want, so you don't have to stick to these pieces as you can see here. I made a piece with a fork and wrapped it. I checked it and cut it. here because it didn't line up properly and I like how it just disappears into it and this is another solo from a fork that I actually soldered, that particular one lost all of its coating because as soon as I started soldering it, it bubbled and fell off.

If you don't have one of those ring benders to make them, it's not a total loss and you don't absolutely need to have one, but it makes your life a thousand times easier. you can use other tools, you can use pliers similar to these that are rounded and you can start rounding your piece, use them on a hammer or you can use a chuck and a hammer and you can get creative with it to just get them round. shape, but it's going to be a lot harder and since you can't heat them without destroying the coating, it makes it a lot harder.

That said, if you get some solid silver ones, you can heat them up as much as you want and you can almost bend them. by hand once you've annealed them, that being said, if you want to check out my actual skills as a silversmith and see what I can do with some real silver, leave a comment and let me know if you do, so that's it if you have any questions. leave a comment, I try to get back to all of them, like this video if you've learned something and subscribe, I try to post new videos every week, other than that, I'll see you next time, bye.