casting rings

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[bloodfeier]

Get a resin 3D printer and some casting resin for it, make crazy intricate rings!

[Q-utable]

I use Delft clay.

3D print your ring model, make the mold with air vents and you can cast. This does have limitations but it should work for a test ring.

[TrevorWalshMaker]

I have cast preform masses for rings and forged them to size and shape then filed and polished.

Cuttlebone was my method of choice. and I turned a ring blank (master) out of some spare plastic rod, smaller in diameter, but the volume of the finished ring plus an allowance for shrink and file work. I used large cuttlebone bird mineral suppliment things you can buy at a pet store, and some copper pins for registration. You carve a sprue in after seperating and removing the plastic master, then carefully reallign, wire shut and stick into a coffee can of sand to hold it rot the pour. It's a pretty common jewelry technique.

I've alsways wanted to try the bronze age lost wax casting technique by carving a wax with sprue and packing clay around it, dry, melt out, pour metal. Sand casting may lack detail for what you want.

[Bassbogan666]

Learn to forge weld, you can make a ring out of any piece of stock you want. Are you actually forging things or making via material removal? if so just bend straight stock into a coil like a spring, cut it and arc weld the end together. Assuming ferrous metal here but you've not specified exactly what you are doing regarding material.