On Wednesday 14th March Gemma and Rich spent the day in the studio making their wedding rings. Working in palladium, they made fantastic rings for each other. Palladium requires a little more hard work at the buffing and polishing stages than gold or silver to gain the high polish, but they persevered, enjoying getting through each grade of sanding paper! This is where spending time and good old-fashioned hard graft pays off, turning a grey piece of metal into a shiny wedding ring that has a very special feel.
4mm flat palladium wire and 3mm D palladium wire
Getting started and a little competitive!
Piercing through the two ends of the metal
After sawing and before putting the ends together
Gemma adding the solder
Rich soldering with special goggles for soldering palladium and platinum
Checking the sizes are just right
Filling and buffing to remove all file marks etc.
Making the ring one size smaller
Rich polishing Gemma’s wedding ring
Polishing
With this ring…
The wedding rings!