Comments on: Tool Talk #51: DIY Wedding Rings & Heirloom Shopsmiths

By: Chuck Cage

Chuck Cage — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:27:12 +0000

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.

By: blitzcat

blitzcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:15:07 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:36:37 +0000

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”).

By: Cameron Watt

Cameron Watt — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:13:39 +0000

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

By: BC

BC — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:48:43 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:00:20 +0000

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.