How to Make a Ring with a Stone Inlay | Black and White Ebony and Emerald 

Zmichy thanks! I really appreciate it. Maybe someday ;)

Haha wellll, I'm glad you're happy ;)

Thanks!

Thanks for watching and for the compliments. And frankly I agree about the emerald! But I've been working with a lot of opal lately and that stuff is awesome!

That is awesome! I definitely respect hand tools. I don't have the patience or skill for it :)

I think krazy glue should work fine, it is after all a cyanoacrylate glue (same as what I use in the video). To avoid sticking I just make sure that the glue is totally dry between coats and that there's no activator left on the ring. So if you give the ring a quick wipe with a dry paper towel or cloth after applying accelerator you should be fine. Sometimes I don't even use accelerator between coats because the later is so thin it dries really quickly anyway. Hope that helps!

bangleguy.com is where I got mine. I know patrickadairsupplies.com has them too! Thanks for watching!

BA Woodworking thank you for the info sir. I actually just stumbled across patricks videos today. Keep up the videos, been enjoying them.

Johnny Johnston it's a shopfox w1704. It's my first lathe :)

Thank you! Been looking for a lathe

I think I got it at bangleguy.com. But if you search "expanding ring mandrel" you'll find several good options

I think mine are a bit on the smaller side. Like a 1/2" skew and a similar sized gouge. I'm not sure haha

It's raw emerald and much lighter than gem quality emerald. Certainly much cheaper! Thanks for watching!

@@benofalltrades That doesn't seem right to me, the density of a mineral doesn't change with gem quality (which means less impurities and thus them ebing translucent). Either way, it's good that you didn't get scammed because of this!

@@Vulcano7965 I'm certainly no expert! Learning as I go

Lol, actually I do not play Minecraft :) And this is raw emerald, and is admittedly very white, but it's a thing. Gemstone quality emerald is much more vibrant, deep forest green. Thanks for watching!

To be honest I agree with you about the emerald. It may have to do with the difference between gem quality emerald and raw emerald. I just got this stuff off Amazon. It's a very light green

@@benofalltrades You should look for proper mineral stores that'll sell you the right stuff for the appropiate price. (Avoid any store that sells you "healing" crystals or any related spiritual nonsense. They often give the right description of the mineral and overprice the piece they have). Minerals can have different and important properties regarding stuff like this e.g. brittleness, hardness and cleavages. Would suck if you ordered e.g. a colourful quarz variation or corundum and all you'd get is a soft fluorite. You can't distinguish minerals by their colour alone.

@@Vulcano7965 thanks for the advice! Yes it's been hard to find good stones/minerals. I appreciate your input!