A strip cut from a WWII era artillery shell. We individually serial numbered every artillery shell we cut apart, this one being marked A82. It was a 105mm shell. Likely brought home as a souvenir from the war.
A piece of the emergency hydraulic fluid tank from a WWII P-38 lightning. We had to fold the material around itself to make the ring rigid enough for a ring.
The bracketing of an old Victorian lamp.
Part of the exhaust transition assembly from a WWII B-29 bomber.
I made my girlfriend and I matching rings from the edge of a silver ashtray. Hers has engraving on the inside. It read “What wisdom may you find”.
A piece of a WWII V2 rocket. Dug from a swamp in Poland it 2014. This was one of the first rockets ever made, and was the reason we were able to go to the moon.
Sterling silver navigator WWII 3in lapel pin turned into a ring.
This was a single tine of a sterling silver fork. I carved a mold into a piece of stainless steel and used a rolling mill to press the metal into shape.
A strip out of the side wall of a Vietnam era artillery shell.
I hand filed the hearts into the material before shaping the ring. One of the few rings I’ve actually soldered closed.
A strip out of the center of a vintage silver plated tray.
Exploring what I could do with if I only had access to wire. The ring reminds me of brains for some reason.
A souvenir spoon from the 1893 Chicago worlds fair. The 1933 worlds fair had a better design in my opinion. Maybe I’m just a bigger fan of art deco.
Rolex made a series of spoons. I got a little obsessed with collecting them. They changed as they went on, even when trying to capture the same imagery.
A vintage Lufkin folding ruler. Turns out that they could bend to.
One of the only times I’ve tried to make a setting for a stone. Definitely a clear problem with this ring, but it was fun play around with none the less.
Part of the fuel tank from a WWII P-40 Warhawk. This was a unassuming victim of the backward stamp set we had at the shop.
A piece of a cargo tray meant to be used on the space shuttle. Surprising easy to find retired materials from the shuttle program.
Sterling silver fork, curled and bent into a ring.
