I made two bentwood rings after watching this
Drunken Woodworker video. I don't have a lathe to make a wooden template so I had to think
about what I could use instead. My
solution was to use sockets. I have one
of those big socket kits that has every size socket that you'd never use. I think I've only ever used about five
sockets since I got the thing. I usually
spend more time organizing them in the case then using the sockets. I usually forget to lock the one flap that
holds half the sockets in the case then when I go to close the case I dump them
out everywhere. Anyway, turns out I have
sockets that fit mine and my Wife's ring sizes.
The light wood is maple (on one...I believe) and the dark wood is of an unknown
species, to me anyway. I ran out of maple as I glued the wood to the socket template one too many times. So the light wood on my Wife's ring might be Birch--I don't know yet. I'm still learning. I bought a mixed bag of veneer wood from Lee Valley and the wood wasn't labelled.
Proof the rings were made with love.
The rings were cut from these veneer sheets:
1) 2) Maple? 3)
The rings were cut from these veneer sheets: