How To Make Your Own Engagement Ring

In this video, I'm going to show you how to make your own engagement ring. To start with, you will need a ring mandrel, a vice to secure the ring mandrel. You need some letter stamps.

This is the letters of the alphabet, and you need some ring blanks. Now, these ring blanks, I have 3 different ring blanks here. I have silver.

This is silver. I have gold, 18 karat gold, and 18 karat white gold. These blanks can be purchased from any jewellery shop.

Now, to make your own engagement ring, it's a little bit tricky because you don't know what your receiver would like. So, I thought to make it a bit interesting and a bit quirky, you can buy these alphabet stamps at any hardware shop, but they need to be quite small ones. These are 1 millimetre.

I thought it would be a nice idea to stamp “Will you marry me?” If you're going to attempt to do this, you need some extra metal so that you can practice stamping. The stamping is not consistent. It's a little bit more organic.

The style is a little bit like old-fashion type lettering. The particular stamp that I have, they have a little slot so that you know which direction they should be facing in. The little slot should be facing towards me.

And you try to line them up as well as you can, but inevitably, the stamps are not even so your stamping will not be even. And one of the reasons for securing your ring in a ring mandrel, so you need a hard surface underneath, so that you can apply a reasonable amount of pressure, you position your letter and use a little hammer. The first one is a W.

The second letter is going to be an I. Okay. There you go.

“Will you marry me?” stamped nicely along this ring. That's how you make your own engagement ring. .