A wedding band can be turned into a great conversation piece. I was contacted by a gentleman who loved dinosaurs and wanted his wedding band inlaid with petrified Dinosaur bone.
He looked at photos of some of the Petrified Dinosaur Bone rough material that we have in stock.
Below you will see the steps we used when inlaying his 14 karat white gold ring with the dinosaur bone.
This is the 14 karat white gold wedding band that we started with.
You can see that it has a channel down the center. The top surface of the ring is sloped which will give the finished ring a domed shape on top.
This is the slab of rough Petrified Dinosaur bone which the customer selected from our stock.
You can see that it has a reddish maroon color with traces of yellow here and there.
It also has a checkered pattern of black lines which are indications of the marrow area of the dinosaur bone which was preserved when it petrified.
We trace the nice section of the slab to be used for the inlay.
We trace the area where we will saw out the center part.
We use 2 U-shaped pieces to make a 360° inlay around a ring.
In this way, there will be only 2 spots where the pieces meet. We join the 2 places where they meet as tightly as we can so that the lines where the pieces meet are as close to invisible as possible.
Here you can see that the 2 pieces of Dinosaur bone have been epoxied into the ring and some of the excess material has been trimmed off by a trim saw.
We will grind and sand the rough surfaces down so that they will conform to the shape of the ring.
You can see that this makes for a very beautiful and eye-catching wedding band.
→ Take me back to examples of rings inlaid 360° around a ring . . .
Denton Anderson,
Gemologist & Gem Cutter
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Graduate Gemologist, GIA, GG
Over 20 years of experience.
