Hi, there! Hi!
This beauty is a sterling silver, 12 band puzzle ring from the Puzzle Master website.
It comes packaged in a plastic bag and a lovely red velvet box
and you'll want to keep it in the bag if you're not wearing it
because then that will keep it from tarnishing.
It is marked 925 which is sterling silver
right here.
It will wear like silver.
It is an absolutely fantastic piece of jewelry.
It's tapered in the back so it's comfortable.
it's thin.
It's not heavy and bulky
and it's absolutely gorgeous.
I was super excited when I opened the box.
You'll get this one together and it'll have a little piece of wire holding it
in the back so that it doesn't come apart in shipping.
So we'll start by taking it apart
and mixing thoroughly.
If you haven't seen the 4 band ring solution,
I urge you to go and watch that one first.
It's really going to help you
especially if you don't have any experience with puzzle rings.
This one is a left hand puzzle ring.
My wedding ring is right handed.
It goes from left to right.
This one, the front ring goes from right to left.
So we're going to do the same motions as the 4 band ring.
We're just going to do them in the opposite direction.
It's the same steps, just opposites.
So we'll start by identifying our bands.
I'm going to take one at random and shake everything else out.
I will take the two in the middle
which are going to be the first band and the second band.
The first band has the smooth front.
The second band has the dimple.
Now, I'm going to treat them like each set of three bands is a single band
because that's the way that this ring goes together best
especially when you get back into it where it's really tight in the inside
when you get into your final ring.
If it's not nested correctly, it will not fit.
It goes together perfectly easy
as long as you follow the correct steps.
But if you try to do them one ring at a time,
it's just too tight.
It will not fit and you'll end up bending the ring.
So we've assembled all six of our cross bands
and we're going to put them down facing away from each other.
Now, the front band and the second band are going to go together facing down
with the six center bands in their correct positions
all nested together nice and tidy.
Again, as I said before, this one is a left-handed ring
so we're going to turn our second ring anti-clockwise
and seat it into the front band.
If it doesn't seat correctly,
you can see that I've turned it anti-clockwise and trapped the bottom bands in.
If it doesn't seat correctly when you do this,
take the entire thing and turn it halfway around.
Pick up your band, confirm your positions of your lower bands.
If you haven't done anything to change their positions,
they should still be in the correct position; which they are.
Again, take your second band anti-clockwise
and this time it'll snap right into place.
It will fit right in as long as everything is nested correctly.
So we're going to nest everything correctly
and drop it into its position.
You see how everything lines up perfectly smooth.
There's no band sticking out.
There's nothing funky or weird.
So this is the position that it went in
and now I'm going to take the first front ring.
There are some rings that you want to spin your assembly,
but this one wants the first ring first.
So we'll take this ring and because we have this little cross opening
in the back here in the front, how it's crossed over, it's very tight here.
The back has an opening so we're going to turn it
away from us and up into that space because there's more room to work there.
Notice how I have the back bands open.
That way we won't bend and kink our bands.
Now, I'm going to tip it up over
and make sure that the final three bands are underneath it.
Tip it up over and close it into its position.
This is where it gets very tight.
If these bands aren't nested properly,
they will not go in.
They need to be nice and tidy and tight and firm
and pushed into their position before you start turning.
Otherwise, they'll get crossed up onto each other and it just won't go.
You can see that there is no room for anything to happen up in there
if I keep it tight in the back.
So what I'm going to do is turn it
so that the band is where I can reach it with my hand
and then I'm going to let these open
pretty, pretty wide.
Make them open up as wide as you can without losing your grip.
Then we're going to take this and rotate it up into its position
inside the ring
and make sure that everything is smooth
and at this point, you'll want to push, but don't push.
If you push, you're going to bend your rings out of alignment
and you'll make a big mess
and your ring will not go back together.
If you bend your bands, you'll never get it back together.
Go easy and slow
and everything will close up onto itself.
If you get to this point here where you just can't make it fit
and you just can't get it to go,
start over.
It's much, much safer to just start over than to damage your ring.
But there it is, the 12 band sterling silver puzzle ring.
Isn't it beautiful?