Make A Laminated Wood Ring

What you ll need to make your own laminated key rings.

Make a laminated wood ring.

Here is how to make your own laminated keyrings. 47 x 67 mm or similar size lamination pouch sometimes referred to as the photokey pouch ideally a 500 micron pouch 250 2 eyelet punch and eyelets. I found working with frogblanks on the lathe very satisfying. Anyone with a few tools and some patience can make a laminated wood ring.

Rotate the ring until you ve sanded down the entire circumference then turn it over and smooth the opposite side. Bevel the edges of the ring. How to make wooden rings otherwise known as bentwood rings without fancy tools. Laminated wood rings are the bread and butter of ring making not only are they easy to make but since they rely on combinations of wood for their look the number of these rings that you can make is basically endless.

When working with skateboard decks. All you need is some veneer a knife ca glue super glue krazy glue and some sandpaper. Can t wait to turn more and apply them to other projects. Add glue to each piece of wood and stack together and place in c clamp.

These rings get their. With christmas i wanted to make some wooden laminated rings something different on the lathe. Lynne auckland nz lynne creates beautiful rings other jewelry in a variety of materials youwoodnz handmade in new zealand. This is done by gluing together several different pieces of thinly cut wood.

Luke magic ratsey and huxley magic try to find out and build a prototype as part of our. Use a bentwood lamination. This is so you don t damage the wood. I lay them out to orientate the grain of the wood in different directions this helps the ring with strength.

The two outside pieces of wood or for compressing and have no glue. The first step in the process is to create the ring blank. I then sand and scuff the brass to make it have a little more bite i use the good old gorilla glue brown poly type to glue the pieces together i spray all pieces with water before gluing to make sure of a nice sticky bond tough on the fingers though. No tear out as sometimes happens with laminated wood e g.