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Tool Talk #51: DIY Wedding Rings & Heirloom Shopsmiths

By Chuck Cage

We’re joined this week by our friend Mike Haney who tells us about his experience making his own DIY engagement ring. (Spoiler: It worked. He’s engaged. Congrats!) We also run down this week’s top five and have a good time discussing Sean’s father’s decision to finally hand down his Mark V Shopsmith. Remember, if you’ve got a question or comment you can call us at 866-718-9403. (Podcast Download)


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6 Responses to “Tool Talk #51: DIY Wedding Rings & Heirloom Shopsmiths”

  1. Chris Says:
    January 24th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Woulda been nice if you guys had given the URL of the DIY wedding ring site:

    http://www.newyorkweddingring.com/

    (That was *not* easy to find. Mike also wrote up his experience in Popular Science, available at http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2009-01/diy-proposal , which is how I was able to find the above link.)

    Pretty neat stuff. I’d like to see more stuff on some of the more obscure platinum-group metals’ metallurgical properties — alloys of iridium, ruthenium, and/or rhodium to improve the hardness of platinum, for instance.

    cl

  2. BC Says:
    January 24th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    You can’t torture us like this. A DIY engagement ring and there are no photos??? C’mon guys.

  3. Cameron Watt Says:
    January 24th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    I made my wife’s engagement ring from an old cut nail. Her female friends thought it was the most romantic thing in the world. The men all think I got away with murder :D

  4. Chris Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 7:36 am

    BC: There’s a photo in the Popular Science article (linked in my comment, which is still awaiting moderation, but you can find it by Googling the phrase “A DIY Proposal”).

    cl

  5. blitzcat Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am

    I made m fiancee’s engagement ring, And I do have pics. I Just added them to the toolmonger pool on flickr. We’re still engaged in a long engagement period, ending in December.

  6. Chuck Cage Says:
    January 25th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    We totally have a post about this coming out next week, but we couldn’t pass up sharing it in the podcast first. Glad you liked; it struck me as incredibly cool.

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