Silver Rings: yes or no?

July 6, 2009

We’ve been bouncing some ideas of each other and playing with some concepts with regards to the new Creators. One of the things we’ve been thinking about is a ring in Silver. You could make it with a Creator tool and a Sterling Silver finger ring would be your result.

We have a few now in the office and some of us love them while others wonder if people will want them.

Apart from the obvious: we’ve kind of painted ourselves in a corner with the whole naming thing because our napkin rings which are called Ringpoems, we’ve been trying to find out if we should build the tooling for you to be able to make these customized silver rings.

So: would this be something that you would like to have, make and buy? Or would you give it a pass? The rings might be as much as $100 because the process of making them is rather expensive.

Would it be something that you would like to make for yourself?

Could you see this as a gift for your significant other?

Or would you purchase a cheaper Stainless Steel ring instead?

Or would you never ever buy such a thing?

Any comments would be very much appreciated. If you want one, email me (joris (at) shapeways (dot) com) and I’ll see what I can do.

Comments

• Martin Dilling
  Then I’ll be the first to answer 🙂
  I think it’s a nice and different idea, but I must admit that I wouldn’t wear it, and if I would I don’t think I’d pay $100 for it 😉
  but again I can’t deny the idea is nice 😉

• Joris
  Martin,
  Why would you not pay a $100 for it? too expensive? or not pretty enough?

• Walter Sharrow
  I think the “Grayscale” idea would only work if there was a thin, flat ring as the base. Then use a Grayscale image to raise the surface, the same way Shapeways does with those photo sculptures. Otherwise the random gaps in our images would make a ring that could fall apart.

• Benno Kruit
  It’s a pretty cool idea, but not very comfortable, I’d think. I think signet rings with an imprint from a greyscale image (darker=deeper imprint) would be a lot more attractive, because they’d be comfortable and very custom, because you could use any image!

• Virtox
  I vote no on the rings, but yes on silver 😉
  Although it’s a nice idea, they look very uncomfortable to wear… ?
  Also, I’m still hoping the price range could be half, say maximum around $50, for small silver items.

• Yaseen
  Two words: I want.

• Alberto
  Definitely yes. It is a really cool thing.

• Anastasia Chung
  As a jewelry designer, I’d be VERY interested in custom printing in silver, but not so much silver rings, especially at $100.

• Derek Haltom
  I would love to be able to get some of my designs done in silver, regardless of cost. I would expect it to be in the realm of reasonable, but even if a little high, the ability to have whatever I dream up made in silver would make it worthwhile.