Can anyone recommend a good merchant or jewelry artist for a typophile who wants great type engraved on the inside of a ring?
Website? That narrows down my candidates a lot... :->
Try this guy: http://www.orodiamante.com/
I forget his name though.
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Ok not really engraved but enamel text on rings by a british jeweller Solange Azagury Partridge , you have to dig a bit through the site, but in the Collection on the left, look for the 'Vices and Virtues' ring, there is also a '7 days of the week' ring. One has to chuckle at a collection that has a 'F**k Off' bracelet made from emeralds and jet.
You could try Mottl Industry. They make the RISD class rings, which have type on all four surfaces (including an optional script on the inside, whose height doesn't fill the whole ring width).
http://www.risdring.com
Once, while travelling, I chanced upon a jewelry artist who was designing what seemed to be innocuous silver bands, but inside were complete alphabets and/or phrases. I've always been intrigued ever since, and would love to find if anyone's doing it. The typical "engraved" option doesn't appeal, mostly due to lack of choice in style and size. The rings I saw, the cap-height of the letters took up the entire width of the ring.
and no, this is not a lord of the rings thing. Yes, I saw the movie. No, I'm not a huge Tolkien fan. Typophile, yes. guilty as charged.
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