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As the Lathe Turns: Chris & Sandy’s Blog

Video: Color in our titanium wedding rings through anodizing

TitaniumRingsForever.com and Chris Boothe are pleased to present this video, demonstrating the coloring of titanium and niobium through electrical anodizing — no paints or pigments involved! A process combining science and art, it is used in the creation of our titanium wedding rings and other titanium jewelry.

Custom Titanium Rings with Your Design

As artists, we really enjoy making titanium rings that hold special meaning for our customers. Over the years we’ve made many unique custom titanium bands that represent those ideas and dreams.

Read part one about how we turn YOUR design into YOUR titanium ring!

Email us with your own ideas for a custom titanium ring or call us today! (800) 297-6707

In part one, I talked about the raccoon tracks we did for a titanium ring; here’s a different take for someone who wanted a wolf track and a bear track, along with a design she created to go between the tracks.

Titanium Wedding Ring by Exotica Jewelry
The finished ring: Duncan

Turning Your Design into a Custom Titanium Ring

YOUR design carved into YOUR titanium ring

One of the more satisfying kinds of jobs we do is custom work that requires us to take a customer-supplied image and turn it into a ring. Most images will convert nicely to a titanium wedding band or promise ring and we can say quickly whether something is possible or not. We can usually color the image however the customer wants, with a few exceptions.

A Pilgrimage to the Discovery of Titanium

Plaque for the 200th anniversary of the discovery of titanium by William GregorIn 1990, we were honored with a commission to make a plaque of titanium commemorating the discovery of titanium in Cornwall, England. We were given some materials by the Titanium Development Association (now the International Titanium Association) to help design the plaque, including a copy of a painting of the discoverer Rev. William Gregor.

Homer's Odyssey and Titanium Wedding Rings

Chris writes…

Here’s a fascinating connection between a technique I use with titanium wedding rings and really, really ancient knowledge. I am using a twentieth-century metal employing a process that was first described by Homer in The Odyssey circa 800–600 BCE.