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Trace Rinaldi

Trace Rinaldi

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Just wanted to show off something Kit & Co. made for me... Again Kit, cant tell you how much I dig this!!! Also thanks to Chuck Bybee for the Timascus billet end!!!
Thanks cant quite say what I want to say...
Now dont go bugging Kit to make you a ring Okay?:D
 

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very nice.

although having used a ringcutter as an EMT, i dont think i would want to wear around a Ti ring. soft metals are better for keeping fingers ;)
 
Kit can handle it and still remain humble because he is used to it (I hope :)).

Roger
 
Nice to have friends with talent eh?

Took the M1A out with the HBAR today, made some clean shots out to 300, thought about you, SBR&G, Jamul

Mel
 
Pretty cool Trace and Kit. :) It will be interesting to see how it wears in time. Hopefully you will have it at Blade this year to show off. ;)
 
Trace,
Thanks.
I was impressed with the looks of Timascus since my first framelock with it. When the subject of using it for a ring came up, Kristi and I couldn't resist. It laid on my workbench for weeks and kept me awake at night, wondering how the ring would look (like I'm the only one a new project does that to :) ) so yesterday afternoon we made it happen. It's a size 13 1/2, .891 inside, .072 wall thickness, and .320 wide, torch colored.
Kristi is ready to try one with some engraving on it now. (btw, she is my daughter/MikeO's wife).
Talk about keeping it in the family :D
 
That is really cool! I have a ti wedding band, been thinking about coloring it, so Trace if you think about it later, you might make an update here how the color holds out. Kit did you do anything to protect the finish/color? I know what it's like to lay in bed thining about the project! :D

Dave
 
For about the last month, I was thinking about making a timascus or damascus ring, because I had never seen one, and I thought they would make nice male jewlery. Which I am a big fan of. How did you make it Kit? Very nice.
Kyle Fuglesten
 
Tom,
Diamonds? We're talking about Trace here. :D

Kyle,
It started as a big rectangular chunk. Had to endmill it square and face mill the sides on the mill then bored a .750 hole thru it. Used an expandible collet to hold it in the lathe to turn the outside down (.891 + .072 + .072) to 1.035". Used a 1 3/64" collet to hold it and a boring bar to cut the inside to .0891 (ring size 13 1/2"). That left the side walls at .072, a little thick but better to leave some for final fit.
I used a regular 60° cutter to make the groove and beveled edges. Polished it on the lathe and by hand then heated with a torch for color. The torch coloring makes for nicer colors and seems to be more durable.

It was a block of instruction for Kristi.

Was a fun project, now, back to the regular grind :)
 
Beautiful work. SO when you gonna start selling them? Was happy with the design and stone/metal choice for my class ring until I saw this beauty. :)
 
etp,
I'm not selling, just helping the daughter get set up on them, along with her engraving. My backlog is way too long to take on new projects but a guy's gotta take a break every so often :)
 
I made one, totally different approach than kit.........

all on the lathe except a hole for a 1/2-20 tap first, tapped the hole, put it one a fixture in my lathe, turned it round and finished off the outside, put it my chuck and drilled out/bored the hole until my finger fit just right, then polished the outside on my sander! Wish I could find the darn thing!!! :(
 
Thanks guys, we should have taken a picture of the chunk of Timascus before Kit transformed it into what you see here.. It was pretty nasty looking..
Talk about making a silk purse from a pigs ear..:D

Edited to say: I will have it to show around at Blade show.. Talk about bling bling..HA!


Mel you say 300 yds. with an M1A huh? (yawn)
Why dont you move that target out to 7-800 yds little girl?
I thought about you the other day too, was picking up some dog turds in the yard.. :p
 
I higly respect your work Mr. Rinaldi, but now the image has changed with those two words from your above post -- "bling bling."

Please don't say that your next project is making 18-inch damascus wire rims for your purple Impala. :D
 
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