Wow beautiful 🥰❣️❣️

I learned a technique by Atz Lee Kilcher on "Alaska the Last Frontier." He used long strips of plane shavings wrapped around a cylindrical form covered with clear packing tape, and gluing as he went, using CA glue. He also used CA glue as a finish, which gives a smooth, glossy finish. It's messy and you have to be careful not to glue your fingers to it, but it turns out nice, with several concentric layers.

James, I dont know how you do it, but thank you for your voice. Somehow whenever I play one of your videos around my kids they fall asleep in 3 minutes tops. You are the ultimate nap-hack. Thank you. I love watching your videos and learning from you!

Feeding the algorithm! Om nom nom 😊

Truly hard working 😂😂

I give your work a RINGing endorsement

The simple way, the amazing result. Beautiful result, great job. Congratullations! Best regards from Brazil. Dieter

Just got engaged over the holidays, and I'm definitely going to be making two of these! Great video, as always.

What if you got a powdered garnet or such and mixed it into a clear epoxy layer between the wood?

I just made a purple heart ring for myself. I used a hole saw and a LOT of sanding. It turned out great for not having any rasps or files.

Absolutely beautiful

Love the teaching you do! I am a novice to wood, yours is the one I like to most.

Love how this turned out. Beautiful work!

Thats really pretty! Maybe next you could do a series on building a wooden flywheel lathe just for making one ring 😁

Looks nice. Another fun ring technique is to use a coil of veneer and CA glue.

Amazing, just amazing, James. The ring is truly unique and gorgeous. Wish I had one! (Size 10, please. Haha) Another great video. Thank you!

Your love for hand tools is so contagious ! Amazing work !

What you can do is bake the padauk in the oven at 300F for an hour or so. I've found that helps keep the color without burning it. It'll still discolor over time, but will last quite a while

Lovely ring and it is awesome to see it being made without a lathe. That said, I would love to see you make one on your Barnes lathe.

I guess I like my bathtub. ;)

Woooaaaaaa! More projects! Thanks James

Very cool! Made one from metal in 7th grade metal shop.

I use my dovetail saw just like that for small ripping projects, they are perfect

Wow James, that sure is beautiful! I'm gonna have to try that!

James, that looks amazing!!! Definitely making me think.

Looks great James

Lovely ring.

Commenting for the algorithm.

Interesting project, thanks

Nice one!

Long story short, my mother in law threw my wedding band away about 10 years ago, and I haven't replaced it. I have a bit of silver maple from a tree that came out of my front yard. I might be able to get some walnut from family's farm. I want to ebonize the walnut and make a laminated ring. How do you stabilize the woods first?

Very nice job

Nice

Love it

Posted 4 seconds ago? Let's go!

When you arrange the layers, you try to "stagger" the grain, correct? To minimize the chance of splitting. Very nice result. Thanks for the guide.

Very nice video, subscribed to your channel.

Amazing, James! Really beautiful work! 😃 Have you ever tried a Shinto rasp? I would love to watch a video of you trying it! Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Pretty much exactly how I made mine on my channel...

Okay, betting you've covered it. How did you impregnate/stabilize the wood? If I saw it I didn't save it that I can tell.

can you make a necklace and bracelets?

If you don't want to get stuck measuring the size of the hole, you could use your callipers; you know, the thingy for measuring stuff and transferring measurements. Set the calliper to the inside measurement of the hole and then lock the jaw. Then try to slip the outside jaws of the calliper over the finger. Voila - no fingers get trapped while checking the size.

Was the outro shot with a different setup? It looks a lot sharper and better contrast than the rest of this video.

Very cool! What is the set of files you use?

I am a beginner ring maker and I had to figure out alot of this stuff on my own so it's cool that you made this video . Would wood glue work for the wood sandwich? I have never used apoxy so it's a bit scary. Don't know what kind to use or anything. And just a trick that I figured out Is that I use plexy glass in my sandwich to give it strength but idk how well wood glue will stick to plexy . Can I buy some of these woods online by chance ? And ive been racking my brain on how to split the wood with what I have so nice work with the little hand saw. I was thinking about using ny table saw and jig to hold the piece in place while I cut it or I was thinking about locking the piece in place with some kinda jig and use my router to thin it out. I like the finish on this and it was easy to do. I've been trying to figure out how to work the super glue the right way to give it a good finish and I don't have a laith so I'm only using my drimmel tool and drill. Also liked the file trick to get it perfect. I was flipping my belt sander on its side and sanding it to the line which is hard to do and easy to mess somthing up quick. All mine so far that I made like the one you did have broken pretty quick like and I used toung oil on it and sanded it all the way up to 3000 grit so it was smooth but the finish isn't water proof so that's an issue as well. I would love to be ablw to talk over the phone so I could get some pointers let me know I'd that's somthing your willing to do. I've also experimented with copper wire and shaved copper and I have even carved a stone from the yard into something I could put in the ring and it polished up nicely. I want to do more work like that too. So any advice would be awesome. Me and my wife just started paying for a booth to sell stuff at an antique store so I think the wooden rings might do well there . I'm also looking for stuff I can build to put in the booth besides the rings. It's just that the rings take up no space . I would love to get some ideas from you. Thx .

Hiya, and thanks for sharing. I like your videos. I like your down to Earth style and the way you make the vids. I tried making a ring by gluing up plane shavings until they were thick enough. It sort of worked but it wasn't nearly as nice as yours. I wonder if one of those little hubs? I don't know what they're actually called but the thing that you put a sanding sleeve on and when you tighten it it expands to hold the sleve securely. So I'm wonder why you couldn't use one of those so you can chuck it in the drill press or ever your hand drill and get it spinning that way. It's somewhere between a rasp and a lathe but technically still not a lathe. If you haven't got one of those expanding thingies, then with a little imagination an appropriately sized dowel could be made into one. It just seems like it would be worth the effort to get it spinning since getting it whittled down to size and perfectly round would be a snap that way.

Faceted Ring! 😀

I’m wanting to make my own wedding ring out of curly maple with an iron nitrate finish(I’m a flintlock enthusiast). How feasible do you think that process would be?

James what is the rasp you are using Thanks

It not a ring in your ear but “on”your ear. 😂😂😂 thank you!

Hmmm.. well I know you're more a HP guy right? I can't see a ring making video without thinking of lotr :)

did you mean to call it a drill leveling jig?

DOH! Ring I your ear!

I want to make this soooo bad but I don't have the tools or the skill necessary 😢

Hope he remains a gentleman with you lol

I am one of your oldest ubscribers can u make a pool table for me please

Where is the video of you getting stuck?

Am I missing something? where is the link of you getting your finger stuck ? 🤣

the problem with this method is - grain ofc strongest rings come out from thin veneer yours is great, i did a few like that too, but they broke in half without any pressure, just a random knock makes it all

Nice