With this ring...

We wanted to do something special for our wedding rings, so we decided to work with local artist Adam Clark at Scintillant Studio in San Francisco to schedule our own, personal do-it-yourself workshop and make rings for each other.

We met with Adam back in March to get a feel for what he had to offer, and within a short time, we had set up our ring-making session for Sunday, June 23rd.  Adam's personality, enthusiasm, and sense of humor were both outrageous and contagious.  We knew that with his expertise, patience, and understanding (he's been doing this for more than 25 years), we'd be able to make something unique and memorable, beyond just the 7-hour workshop, that would last our lifetimes.

And forget the "three month salary" rule for the traditional engagement/wedding ring costs.  We were able to make and personalize our forever-bands for each other (from melting the metals... to shaping, hammering, and sanding, and polishing the rings... down to engraving a small, personal message inside each band for the other), for a very reasonable session fee and the cost of the materials (we chose white gold).

We'd recommend Adam and this workshop to anyone!  Here are a few images from our session. 

weighing enough materials for our two rings

the makings of something special

getting ready to melt the metals

Anthony heats up the mold

i'm melting

the bar of white gold that we'll be using to make our two rings

annealing the white gold bar to make it easier to cut and shape

we then shaped and cut the gold into the two bars
that will make up our rings

starting to take a familiar shape

red hot

soldering the ends of Anthony's ring together

Anthony begins to hammer Jeff's ring into shape, after soldering the two ends together

sizing it up

smoothing and polishing a comfort fit

more smoothing things out

a few finishing touches

Jeff sands the edges of Anthony's ring

almost there...

The final reveal of our DIY, custom-made, beautiful, unique, and perfectly imperfect rings will come later, at Anthony's request.  Stay tuned!