Posted on Thursday, 8th November 2012 by Michael
I am not one to wear jewelry normally and the thought of having something on my hand for the rest of my life made me a bit nervous. I wanted something that was going to withstand the abuse of my daily life yet look really cool and have a special meaning to me. I also wanted something that was one of a kind.
I spent a lot of time viewing rings on line and none of them were jumping out at me. Then one day I was sitting at the jewelers with my then fiancé and it hit me, how about I create a binary wedding ring. I instantly whipped out my smart phone and search Google for binary wedding ring and come up with only two instances of it. The first instance was a very crappy attempt. It was basically a ring with “0110110” going around it. It looked really generic and cheesy. The second one was a a lot better they used blocks in 3 rows to create a message. Though even using their cheat sheet I could not figure out the meaning, it was not easy for me to decode.
This got me thinking on how to accomplish this, be able to read it, be able to fit it all on a ring and make it look really cool. After a few hours of thinking I printed out a piece of graphing paper (yes printed out a piece J) and decided to use 1 box for a 0 and two boxes for a 1. I also decided to go up and down with the words and have it overlap slightly on the last character to be able to fit it all on the ring. The final decision was to decide what to put in the binary. For that I decided to put the following message “M <3 S 10612”
The above lead to this:
I brought my design to the jeweler and asked if she could do this and after a few weeks she presented me with this wax model of what the ring would look like. After a few tweaks to the design we were ready to move to the casting and making of the ring.
I got to say I was a bit nervous at first as we were getting close to the wire for the ring to be designed and finished. I also designed my wife’s band and had them working on that as well due to her custom engagement band. Though I should have known not to worry as Jessica and the rest of the staff at Finch jewelers came through with flying colors and delivered me a ring that was beyond my expectations. Below are a few images of it, excuse the quality as the ring has not been cleaned in these pictures and it was shot with my cell phone.
Tags: binary ring, binary wedding ring, custom binary ring
Posted in Blog | Comments (3)
November 8th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Very cool man!
November 8th, 2012 at 8:48 am
Thanks
May 3rd, 2013 at 10:52 pm
I also had my wedding ring custom-designed, but I have to say this is the most unique design I’ve ever seen. Very well done. For my 10th anniv., I’m going to do something similar now that I’ve seen this!