A perfect activity for couples with passion for handcraft, Full Workshop is a private space for you and your other half to experience the joy of creating your rings for each other with the most traditional art of goldsmith.
Full Workshop, a space where you can indulge in a romantic and unique ring making experience under professional guidance. From sharing your ideas to seeing it come to life, this Workshop takes 3 separate sessions, a total of approximately 8-9 hours where you will undergo the most traditional way of ring creation from a rough piece of 18 Karat gold to taking pride in seeing it come together as your wedding bands.
Handcrafted rings are not only a piece of valuable memory, it also serves as a testimony to your marriage. Every mark left on the ring lets you reminisce on the moments shared together with your other half.
This Workshop is divided into 3 major parts: Introduction, Session 1, and Session 2. The whole timeline from making your appointment to ring collection takes up to 2-3 months, thus signing up 1 month prior is recommended.
Everybody is welcome! All we ask for is your passion for handcraft and commitment. Our workshop is well equipped with professional tools mainly imported from Europe and the United States, to ensure professional precision. Here, our tutor will guide you step by step with how each tool is utilized to aid you in making your wedding bands.
Class Duration: 1 Hour
Before officially starting to make your rings, you will first have an introductory session with our workshop tutor. In this session, we will go through notes on health and safety, and identify the design of your rings through discussion. Understanding these will help you know how to prevent accident and injury during the process.
Safety is our priority, during our introductory lesson, our instructor will go through basic rules and guidelines and the importance of health and safety in our workshop. This will ensure a safe working environment and provide better understanding of the material that you will be working with.
The design of your rings will also be identified through discussion with our tutor, who will guide you through ring characteristics like profile, width and length of your rings. This may been seen as one of the most important steps to your ring. Every different profile and width calls to each their own in terms of comfort and outlook. Everyone’s finger shape and sense of comfort is slightly different so you would choose a profile that suits both of your needs.
Class Duration: 3-4 Hours
Session I is where you will start making your rings. This session revolves around metal forming, and you will go through processes such as annealing, drawing and forming to achieve the shape and width that you desire.
Metal is hard but you can soften it, one of the ways is called annealing. Before shaping and bending a piece of metal, you will learn how to anneal a piece of metal which changes the physical composition of the metal for it to become softer. However, metals will still harden over time when shaping and bending continue, so annealing is a repetitive process that you will be very familiar with during the forming process.
Be prepared! Strength is required to form your desired ring shape and size. You will go through a process called “Drawing”, where you keep pulling your piece of metal until your desired shape is achieved. Patience is highly important in this task as it will determine the precision of your ring shape.
Forming is fun as you will witness your rings take shape. There are various ways to transform a metal strip into a loop. It can be done by hammering on a mandrel, or by bending it with a plier or, in our case, with an advanced ring bending machine.
When you have shaped and bent the metal into the shape of a ring, you have to connect the ends, not with glue but solder. 18K solder will be used to fill the gap and join the two ends together. This will be done by heating up the metal and solder. Since the melting point of solder is lower than that of gold, when the solder is melting, it will go through the gaps and join the metal ends together permanently. Steady temperature and precise timing is key in this step.
Class Duration: 3-4 Hours
Session II revolves a lot around patience and attention to details. This is where you will start to refine your rings layer by layer. To polish it to the effect you want, be it matte or glossy, you will go through processes such as filing, buffing, polishing and texturing. Then, sign it off by engraving your own message on the rings and design how your diamonds should be set. The rings will be passed to our professional diamond setter for setting, to assure impeccable outcome.
By now you should have a rough ring shank, but the surface of our ring will still need refining. Various tools with different levels of coarseness will be used to achieve a smooth ring surface. For example, “Files” will rid your ring of big scratches, “Buffs” and “Sanding Wheels” will further even out your ring surface. You will also learn how to operate a Pendant Motor, which helps you to hold different tools and bring your rings to the brightest shine.
What kind of texture represents you, Glossy, Hammered, or Matte? Depending on the texture desired, our tutor will guide you to achieve different kinds of finish.
What can be better than engraving your handcrafted rings personally? Our workshop is equipped with professional engraving machine which allows you to make the perfect engraving by yourself. We provide different fonts for you to choose from to sign your message.
Unleash your creativity and decide how diamonds are set on your rings. You will be given a marker to jot down where you would like your diamonds set, our experienced diamond setter will then set the diamonds according to your preference.
After completing the workshop sessions, rings without diamond need approximately 2 weeks to process. As for rings that require diamond settings, our diamond setter requires a month to complete the rings. When your rings are complete, our team will notify you of it’s completion and you may visit our store for collection.
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