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Thank you for joining us here at Beadaholique.com. Today I want to show you how to use a ring sizer
and a ring mandrel.
These two particular items are available on the Beadaholique.com's website as a kit for your
convenience.
A ring sizer is going to measure the size of your finger. It's pretty self explanatory.
You'll notice on the ring sizing tool
there are numbers along
the edge of each circle and these are the numbers of the ring. They actually come from
one at the very smallest
all the way up to thirteen
and there's going to be half sizes as well.
The one has a little one next to it and one and a half
has a one
dash next to it.
Then it goes on to two and so forth.
So what you're going to want to do to a get properly sized ring
is you are gonna wanna find the circle which fits your finger best. The average person's
ring finger is about a size six to a seven. My fingers are a little bit
smaller.
I going to start with a five
it fits and it's actually feels a little bit loose.
You don't want it to slip off.
Then I'm gonna go down a half the size
to four and a half.
It actually feels pretty good.
If I had a
ring such as an engagement ring or something I might want it a little bit tighter just because
I wanna make sure it doesn't fall off so there's a four
and that is just about perfect. You can tell that it's not cutting off any circulation.
It still has room to move but it is really going to have troubles going over my knuckle.
I can still get it off though.
So I'm right in between a four and a four and a half.
The average person again is going to be more like a six to seven. I just happen to
have tiny fingers.
So once we know the size of your ring you can go ahead and use the a ring mandrel
to make a ring from scratch.
So if you look at the ring mandrel you'll see it also has numbers along the edge of
it
and it numbers from one to fifteen and these numbers are going to correspond with the numbers
on the ring sizer. I can take any
ring on my ring sizer and this one happens to be an eleven
slide it down and it's going to fit perfectly on the eleven mark.
So if you are size eleven ring
and that's what you're going to want to do.
So you use the tools in conjunction with each other.
Now this is a plastic ring mandrel. It's perfect for wire wrapping and wrapping filigree around
it. Anything where you are just using the pressure of your fingers to make a ring.
Also available to you are steel mandrel. You want to purchase one of these
when you start getting into metalwork.
Anytime when you're using hammer.
Anything that exerts a lot of pressure and you're going to want to switched over to the steel
mandrel.
But for a lot of projects that you'll make you'll just need the plastic mandrel.
So I'm going to show you how you might be able to make
to a filigree ring using the ring sizing tool and the ring mandrel. So I'm probably not
going to wear this particular ring on my engagement ring finger. I think I will choose
this finger right here.
So first I need to determine what size that finger is.
We start with a seven.
It's actually pretty good, it's a little bit loose. The rings might come right off.
So I'm going to go down a half a size to six and a half
and that feels about right.
What you what to do you want to take your
filigree. Now if you're wire wrapping you would just take your wire and
because this is going to be a little bit wider of a ring I want to line up at the midpoint at
the filigree
with the midpoint of my six and a half mark.
So I'm going to do that like so
and I'm going to use the pressure of my fingers
and bend.
Okay once you've
fully pressed the ring all the way around the mandrel and you have it molded. It does take some
firm finger pressure there.
You'll take it off of the mandrel. You'll see you have a nice round shape to it.
And it should fit
exactly to your finger.
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