Summary: Designing a wedding band starts with determining the type of metal it will be cast in, making a mold of the engagement ring and creating a ring that fits tightly next to it. Find out what goes into designing wedding bands with tips from an experienced jeweler in this free video on wedding jewelry.
Dave Fadel has been in the jewelry business for more than 22 years and has loved every second of it. He wend on his first diamond trip to Asia, and form there he has gone on to receive...read more
"I'm Dave Fadel from Bountiful, Utah, Fadel's Jewelry. Today, we're going to talk about designing a wedding band. If it's a male's wedding band we're going to design, we need to know what material that he would like to be...have it made out of -- titanium, tungsten, white, 14k, yellow gold, platinum, et cetera. On a...on a band, you can choose several different textures, finishes on a band. This particular one is sandblast. Also, there's high polished, there's stone finish, brush finish, whether there's going to be stones set in it or not. It all starts with a sketch, and then we do a wax mold of whatever the ring is, and then, of course, a finished product. If it's a female's wedding band we're designing and she already has an existing ring with some contour to it, we take that ring and we make a wax design that follows the contour of the ring, cast it, and then make it metal so that it is a finished product like this. A wedding band can be either straight like so many of them you see today are. But if there's contour to the ring, you generally have to custom-make it. Here's another example of a engagement ring with a matching wedding band that snugs up next to it and has a similar design. And that's just a brief summary of how to design a wedding band."
eHow Article: How to Design a Wedding Band
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