Looking back at the evolution of ring engraving, you will find that there is still a lot involved in ring engraving if you really want to look into it. In addition to ring engraving such as engraving text on specially made fine jewelry and engagement rings. Today’s ring engraving guide will take you through how to get an engraving on your favorite ring and how to choose an engraving pattern that’s right for you.
- What kind of designs are usually engraved on the ring?
Generally, people choose to have something engraved on their rings that is important to them or related to them. For example, an important point in time, or the initials of the name of someone important to you. There are also some people who will choose to have their own designs engraved on their rings. These motifs have special significance to the maker.
- What are the methods of ring engraving?
As of now, there are two general methods of engraving rings, or jewelry engraving. One is hand engraving, and the other is laser engraving.
Let’s start with hand engraving, which is the most traditional way of engraving and requires a jewelry engraver with years of experience to use an engraving tool to engrave directly on the ring. Hand engraving has more room for creativity than machine engraving. But in general, only experienced jewelry engravers can operate directly on the hand, after all, in the process of engraving if there is a little error, want to re-engraving is a very difficult thing (the worst case scenario is to start again). And in the process of engraving, damage to the jewelry is also very common. Of course, nowadays, there are also a large part of the craftsmen will save time and effort to use jewelry engraving machine to carry out jewelry engraving.
Laser engraving, also called digital engraving, is one of the most advanced engraving techniques available. To put it simply, it is engraved with a laser. Before engraving, you need to use a computer to set the pattern to be engraved. Compared with other engraving methods, laser engraving has an extremely prominent advantage, that is, the strong laser can engrave a variety of materials. Moreover, the accuracy of laser engraving is very high. Most jewelers choose to use laser engraving as a way to produce products in large quantities.
- If you’re going to try to carve a ring
- You need to consider the width of the ring
Before you design the engraved pattern, you need to consider whether the style of the ring is suitable for the pattern you have designed. If you want to have your ring engraved manually by a jewelry craftsman, you’d better keep the accuracy of the pattern above 3mm; patterns below 3mm are too delicate. Most engravers don’t have and are able to do the engraving work in such a small space. Generally speaking, the most suitable pattern is between 5mm and 7mm wide.
- Engraving solutions that are too complex to realize
If you just want to engrave some simple letters or numbers on your ring, this is very easy to achieve. But if you want to realize some very fine or rather complex patterns on your ring, you may need to talk to your engraver in detail. What you need to know is that some very complex patterns can only be realized with laser engraving techniques. Therefore, it is not uncommon for your vision and the final product to be different.
- Confirm the size of the ring before engraving it
One more thing that i you need to make sure what kind of size the ring is before you engrave it. If you realize that your ring is not the right size after the subsequent ring has been finished engraving, you may have to grind off the engraving all together in order to resize the ring. So, in order to make sure that the engraving is done effectively, it is best for you to make sure that you have the ring size sized before the engraving is done.
- Things you need to know before engraving a ring
- Cost issues
If you are purchasing a finished ring for engraving, you may have to pay extra for it. In some cases, the amount of money you spend on the engraving pattern may exceed the cost of the ring you initially purchased. So, it is best that you make this clear before engraving your ring.
- Engraved rings are difficult to sell or aftermarket
It is very difficult to sell a ring after it has been engraved. This is one of the things that you need to be clear about before you have your ring engraved again. After all, sometimes the ring that you take to the aftermarket may be very different from the style that you originally purchased. So taking it after-sale is not recognized by some merchants. Also. If you want to sell your engraved ring to someone else. The odds are that it won’t be that easy to resell it. After all, if your ring is engraved with some special numbers or letters, it may not be appropriate to wear it on the hands of strangers.
- Determine the pattern you want to engrave
Engraving a design on a ring is not as easy as drawing with a pencil on a piece of white paper. Once the design is engraved, it takes a lot of time to remove or modify it (and you don’t even know if it’s going to work). So you’d better make sure what you want the finished product to look like before engraving, if you want to change it in the middle of the process, it won’t be an easy task.
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