Having your wedding ring specially made just for you is a joy in itself, but have you ever imagined attempting to make it yourself. We recently introduced this as an option to all our couples that have booked their rings with us. Obviously there is a limit as to what a "novice" goldsmith can do but what we offer our clients is a opportunity to participate in a stage of the making of their rings. One of our recent participants were Dave & Amanda, in this case it was Amandas engagement ring. Amanda wanted something unique, and not your run of the mill engagment ring, she wanted a wide band in white gold with a yellow gold spiral detail and blue topaz set in the ring
Once the design was set, Barry then brought the ring to a certain stage before inviting Amanda & Dave to participate in the next stage of the design. Upon their arrival to the studio, Amanda was set to the task of emerying and polishing the shank of her ring,
and Dave was given the job of melting the yellow gold that was to eventually form the spiral detail on Amandas ring.
Amanda & Dave spend several hours in the studio and afterwards had this to say "Working in the studio was an incredibly interesting, educational experience" said Amanda, "Barry gave us an insight to the intricacies for high quality jewellery making and we left with a whole new appreciation and admiration for his craft, and we also have and amazing story attached to our beautiful engagement ring" If you think that you and your H2B would like to try your hand at it, please contact us for further details: barrydoyledesign@yahoo.com
