I might agree if all titanium jewelry were the same piece-o-tubing that titanium wedding bands started as over 10 years ago. In my work (ti-designs.com) I'm trying to put that stuff behind me and create some real artwork. If what you're saying has any truth to it, the novelty of a space age metal will wear off and titanium rings will now longer hold their value. That being said, platinum rings, much like their gold counterparts are cranked out by the thousends. How much can a piece of jewelry say about the person wearing it if the next person in the jewelry store can purchase the exact same thing?
I'm proud to be able to tell my customers that they'll never see another piece just like their own, they'll last forever (or 'til they lose 'em), and some people even think they look pretty damn good.
Honda offers a titanium shifter knob for the S2000 as well. It's a cast piece of pretty low quality (as far as titanium goes) with a simple abrasive blasted finish, but it's titanium. I (ti-designs.com) have made shifter knobs for both Honda (M10x1.5) and Audi(M12x1.25) shifters, not a single complaint that they didn't blend well with the rest of the car.
Kinda industrial looking for my tastes. My wife and I have rings that look like twisted rope, when put together side by side they look like a square knot. I don't think there are any pictures of our rings, but check out some of my other work at http://www.ti-designs.com
I buy titanium plate for use in jewelry production, it's not expensive. My rings start out as a hole drilled in a plate, so the thickness of the plate is the maximum width of the ring. a 1/4" thick 1-1/4" X 1-1/4" piece of titanium is somewhere between $10 and $20 depending on the grade...
This is true, what they call a tension setting is really a compression setting - I never really gave any thought to it before. I've made a number of compression settings (still called tension setting on my web page), but my newest sample is a reverse compression setting where the metal crosses under the stone and comes up to hold the sides. To set the stone I compress the ring instead of expanding the ring as with the other compression settings. I'll have it pictured on the next update of the site - http://www.ti-designs.com
I guess my customers are sleeping... Check out ti-dessigns.com if you want to see some real titanium jewelry. I still do plain wedding bands (what the other folks seem to rave about from other titanium jewelers), but when it comes to custom work I have yet to find anyone else who comes close - and I have been looking. Just to be fair, my links page lists most of the other [good] titanium jewelers, if I missed any please feel free to e-mail me and let me know.
Hmmm... I made a set, but as tradition would have it the chopsticks were wood (cherry in this case) and only the last 7/8" was titanium. Despite being a rather simple lathe project they wound up being kinda expensive because I had to insert a stainless steel threaded rod down the center, and doing the finish work when you have a soft material mergiing with a very hard material is kinda tricky. I don't have any pictures, but some of my other work can be viewed at http://www.ti-designs.com
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I might agree if all titanium jewelry were the same piece-o-tubing that titanium wedding bands started as over 10 years ago. In my work (ti-designs.com) I'm trying to put that stuff behind me and create some real artwork. If what you're saying has any truth to it, the novelty of a space age metal will wear off and titanium rings will now longer hold their value. That being said, platinum rings, much like their gold counterparts are cranked out by the thousends. How much can a piece of jewelry say about the person wearing it if the next person in the jewelry store can purchase the exact same thing? I'm proud to be able to tell my customers that they'll never see another piece just like their own, they'll last forever (or 'til they lose 'em), and some people even think they look pretty damn good.
Honda offers a titanium shifter knob for the S2000 as well. It's a cast piece of pretty low quality (as far as titanium goes) with a simple abrasive blasted finish, but it's titanium. I (ti-designs.com) have made shifter knobs for both Honda (M10x1.5) and Audi(M12x1.25) shifters, not a single complaint that they didn't blend well with the rest of the car.
Kinda industrial looking for my tastes. My wife and I have rings that look like twisted rope, when put together side by side they look like a square knot. I don't think there are any pictures of our rings, but check out some of my other work at http://www.ti-designs.com
I buy titanium plate for use in jewelry production, it's not expensive. My rings start out as a hole drilled in a plate, so the thickness of the plate is the maximum width of the ring. a 1/4" thick 1-1/4" X 1-1/4" piece of titanium is somewhere between $10 and $20 depending on the grade...
This is true, what they call a tension setting is really a compression setting - I never really gave any thought to it before. I've made a number of compression settings (still called tension setting on my web page), but my newest sample is a reverse compression setting where the metal crosses under the stone and comes up to hold the sides. To set the stone I compress the ring instead of expanding the ring as with the other compression settings. I'll have it pictured on the next update of the site - http://www.ti-designs.com
I guess my customers are sleeping... Check out ti-dessigns.com if you want to see some real titanium jewelry. I still do plain wedding bands (what the other folks seem to rave about from other titanium jewelers), but when it comes to custom work I have yet to find anyone else who comes close - and I have been looking. Just to be fair, my links page lists most of the other [good] titanium jewelers, if I missed any please feel free to e-mail me and let me know.
Hmmm... I made a set, but as tradition would have it the chopsticks were wood (cherry in this case) and only the last 7/8" was titanium. Despite being a rather simple lathe project they wound up being kinda expensive because I had to insert a stainless steel threaded rod down the center, and doing the finish work when you have a soft material mergiing with a very hard material is kinda tricky. I don't have any pictures, but some of my other work can be viewed at http://www.ti-designs.com