My daughter, Malynda,  asked me to design her class ring.  She said that she wanted something that didn’t look like a class ring and a heart shaped stone.

I made several sketches and asked her if she liked them.  This is the one she chose.

She was very excited when I told her that I would try to put her name and graduation year in her own hand writing.  I sketched out the basic design of the ring in 2-D in CAD.  I placed the 2-D sketch on a sheet of paper multiple times at twice the actual size.  I then gave it to her to write her and year on.  Once she picked her favorite I put the image in my CAD program and traced her handwriting to place it in her ring.

Here is the Render of the CAD file.

Originally she wanted a red ruby and white diamonds.  Later she changed her mind and decided on a white sapphire center stone and purple sapphire accent stones.  The CAD file was sent out to be grown.  Once I received the model back I made a mold of it and injected a wax copy from it.  Once I had the wax copy, I could modify it to fit the white gold head that I had ordered for the center stone.

The rough casting.

The stones being set.

All Done.