Stamping on Rings
hi I'm Lisa Niven Kelly here for
Beaducation.com and today we're gonna talk
about stamping on rings I'm going to
show you three different ways that you
can stamp on a ring and this is my
favorite way this is using a ring
mandrel on a sandbag so you've got your
ring on here that you're gonna stamp on
but the first thing I do is kind of
settle my ring mandrel into the bag so I
kind of make sure it also snug down in
there you can also use a plastic mallet
to do that and then I'm gonna turn it
this way actually when I'm stamping so
I'm gonna stamp the name Jack's on here
it's my nephew's name I'm gonna first
use the J and this is a J from our
tattoo to millimeter set and it is
perfect for these rings want to make
sure your stamp is nice straight up and
down right in the center of the ring
there and one good hit there we go now
to do the next letter you just turn it a
teeny bit and line the next letter up so
you always want to be working straight
up and down instead of trying to you
know work on the sides this is much
easier
awesome okay let me show you the next
way to stamp on rings and I'll do the
last letter another tool that you can
use to stamp on rings is this very
appropriately named ring mandrel stand
that holds your ring mandrel it provides
great resistance because it's really
really heavy and very hard metal but I
just want to point out that when you
receive it this side of the tool
actually comes screwed in over here so
it's on this edge you have to move it in
one notch because to fit our ring
mandrel 's and these screws can be quite
tight
it comes with an allen wrench but I
literally had to put that in lay it on
the floor so the allen wrench was up
like this and step on it and get it to
loosen so they might be tight but stick
with it they will open lefty loosey
tighty righty and then you can just put
it in this little notch here and it
holds this perfectly so again I would
want to orient it like this so I have
the right angle let's find the top so we
can get that last letter in the X
this will be a much louder than stamping
on the sandbag
the last way that you can stamp on rings
is to take your ring on the ring mandrel
and clamp it into a table vise so the
key here is that these straws have
plastic covers so they don't Mar up your
ring and they're closed right down on
the ring which is right up against the
ring mandrel you want to make sure it's
nice and snug otherwise you'll just be
distorting the ring and make sure this
is in here really really hard and
doesn't wobble around me at all and then
this table vise is tight up on this
table so now with everything nice and
snug on the ring mandrel tight in the
clamp
I'm just gonna put this little heart
stamp right there there we go okay now
the main bummer about using this tool is
that every time you need to shift your
ring
you have to unclamp the jaws turn it
slightly
Andreea clamp down onto your mandrel
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