This is where a dremel tool comes in handy, cleaning up the imperfections is very easy if you have one. Use the finest sandpaper you can find, to smooth the edges until they look perfect this time. Make sure both ends of the piece of metal look the same.



If you want to engrave your ring, now is the time to do that. I do not have the tools for that so I could not.



Rounded edges are safer than sharp ones, so ideally you want the cross-sectional shape to look like this:

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Once this is achieved and your metal looks good, you can move on to bending. Only if you have VERY fine sandpaper and preferably a dremel to attach it to, should you sand the two faces of the metal. Otherwise leave them as they are if they look smooth already. Polish the metal well with a cloth or something similar. A rotary felt polisher for a dremel works well too.



Remember that one of the sides will look flatter and more smooth than the other, so make sure that this is the outside of the ring.



Press it onto something round of a similar diameter to your finger, to get a nice even bend.

This will not work the whole way round.



Use a cloth or an old shirt around your long-nosed pliers to make it harder for the teeth to scratch the metal. This is not necessary but it may help if you have spent a lot of time up to this point on polishing the metal.



Take your time to make it circular.



Once it looks like mine in picture 7, it is good enough to test-fit.



Try it on your finger and see if you like the fit of the size and shape of the ring, if it is too big, use a file to shorten the two sides a few millimetres and try again.





