A man is making a unique wedding ring for his fiancée, Cambrie, who uses a wheelchair due to a horse riding accident 15 years ago. He takes a strip of titanium from her first wheelchair and inlays it into a 14-karat gold ring. With the help of his friend Westin, who has experience making rings, they go through a multi-step process of annealing, soldering, and shaping the metal to create the ring. The titanium centerpiece is carefully placed and secured, and the ring is then sanded and polished to a brushed finish. The result is a one-of-a-kind ring that holds sentimental value and tells a special story.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The speaker is making a custom wedding ring that incorporates titanium from their fiancée's first wheelchair.
2. The wheelchair was made of titanium, a metal that is 40% lighter than steel but just as strong.
3. The speaker is using 14-karat gold for the ring.
4. To make the ring, the speaker needs to anneal (soften) the gold to make it workable.
5. Annealing involves heating the gold with a torch to disperse the molecules and make it soft again.
6. The speaker uses a jeweler's saw to cut the gold into the desired shape.
7. To join the gold pieces together, the speaker uses a soldering technique that requires a flux to prevent oxidation.
8. Solder is an alloy of gold and other metals with a lower melting point than the gold ring itself.
9. The speaker uses a lathe to shape the titanium insert into a precise fit for the ring.
10. Titanium is bio-compatible and non-magnetic, making it suitable for use in medical implants and other applications.
11. The speaker's fiancée, Cambrie, got her first wheelchair after a horse riding accident about 15 years ago.
12. The ring is designed to be divided into thirds, with an equal amount of gold on either side of the titanium centerpiece.
13. The speaker uses a ring resizer to compress one side of the ring and then expand it back to its original size.
14. The ring is polished to a brushed finish using a flex shaft rotary tool.
15. The speaker and their fiancée are getting married, and the ring is a unique and special part of their wedding.
16. The couple received a wedding gift from the "What's Inside" channel, which included two classrooms full of desks with their name on them, to be donated to a school in Kenya.
17. The couple fundraised over $20,000 to build an entire school in Africa, and they plan to visit the school and see the desks that were donated.
18. The couple is still fundraising and hopes to fund a second school in Africa or use the funds for other educational resources.