Mixed Metal Ring Setting

Description

Mixed Metal Ring Setting made with a solid silver band and gold or gold filled bezel cup. Does not include ashes as shown in the pictures. These rings take  up to two weeks to produce and send unless otherwise stated. They are custom made for you to order and as such are not eligible for return/change of mind.

Perfect for use with our round cabochon moulds and for direct pour. You can order some ring stock images here (coming soon) to show your clients some mockups before they buy (please remember the instructions for use advise you to tell your clients results will vary!).

We recommend you buy a compatible necklace setting, for example a silver necklace setting, a gold filled neckace setting or a solid gold necklace setting to accompany this ring and once you’ve made the cabochon stones you can offer to set the other one as a necklace for a small extra charge (£25 or so for silver, £55 for gold filled and £80 for solid gold perhaps). Around half of your customers will take you up on this. Just be sure to tell them you’ll still return the extra stone even if they don’t pay!

Kit Contents

If you’d like to buy this ring as a kit you’ll receive:

• Custom made mixed metal ring setting
• a single practice bezel setting
• pair of vinyl gloves
• 3 cocktail sticks
• resin sparkle mix sample (random colour)
• 10g bottle of UV resin
• sandpaper
• label backing paper
• 1x sachet Breastmilk Preservation Powder (breastmilk kit only) and free access to our Breastmilk Jewellery Course plus these Breastmilk Preservation Powder PDF Instructions

You’ll also need to provide yourself (not included):

• an epoxy resin starter kit or a UV lamp like this
• your clients’ elements (like breastmilk, ashes, hair etc) and any additional sparkles and dried petals. You can also request some practice ashes here.

And these items make it much easier but aren’t essential!

• a wooden ring clamp to hold the ring in place when setting or curing but sometimes a hair clip works!
• a pestle and mortar to grind breastmilk powder, cremation ashes and umbilical cord

Follow our tutorials here to prepare your clients’ elements or buy a pack of 5 or 10 sachets of Breastmilk Preservation Powder here!

Direct Pour Ring Making Video Tutorials

Rubover Bezel Ring Making Video Tutorials

Ring Setting Sizes

All of our handmade rings are available in UK half sizes and US quarter sizes, please let us know in the comments and choose the size below. For example, if you would like a UK size P1/2 ring, please choose UK P and say in the comments “size P1/2”.

Please note, if you’re offering a high end customer experience:

• I highly recommend that you advise your customer to consider taking away half a UK ring size to their best fit on comfort fit bands like twist, bubble, classic and minimalist. For example, if they are a UK size L on a normal ring sizer, the might advise them to go for a size K½.

• You should always advise your customer to consider ADDING a full UK ring size on wide bands like 3mm wide and 6mm chunky For example, if they are a UK size M on a normal ring sizer, the might advise them to go for a size N. To help avoid confusion, I personally would write (M)N on their order when I receive their ashes etc. Order the size N from me!

• We will make whatever size you request but ten years’ experience making these bands for Tree of Opals clients shows me that this sizing method works well – Nikki Lovegrove

Comfort Fit for Arthritis/Swollen Joints

Comfort fit bands like twist, bubble, classic and minimalist are ideal for clients with arthritis and swollen joints etc. If you’d like us to press the ring into a slight oval shape for clients with arthritis/swollen knuckles please let us know in the comments. We recommend sizing the client’s finger and not the joint, the oval shape will help them get the ring on and because it can then be more true-to-size, it’s less likely to slip.

Solid Silver and Gold Bezel Cups

The silver in these settings is 925 sterling or 935 or 940 anti-tarnish silver, which is 100% recycled. We use sterling silver solder paste. Please see our blog on Types of Solid Silver which explains the care instructions for the silver and the metal content. You can advertise these as 925 sterling silver band which is the minimum fineness of the band and bezel cup.

Gold filled or rolled gold is not able to be hallmarked. Solid gold bezel cups on a silver ring mean the ring can be hallmarked mixed metal but this is only necessary if the gold is over 1g, so none of these rings are hallmarked.

We are happy to do any of the settings the other orientation, for example I always make oval settings landscape (sideways) because it’s a little more secure, less prone to being knocked off due to a smaller surface area overlapping the band. If you’d like the oval settings in portrait (regular) please let me know in the comments.

Silver Polishing Cloths

Customers may wish to give their rings a quick polish before sending, you can buy a silver polishing cloth from us here. If you have an established business and would like some branded polishing cloths we use this company for our Tree of Opals cloths!

*Most kits will come with a compatible mould, but for settings that aren’t suitable for use with a mould (direct pour or fillable only) we will instead send a practice bezel setting which is stainless steel. You can fill this with the client’s ash/milk etc to send them a proof photo before filling the setting. This way you can check they’re happy with the colours.

Request patina on any of our silver items no extra charge

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