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Gimmel Rings
and truly stuff ed.
The toolmaking was over, I now had to
make the rings. I rolled the Palladium nicely,
bent the result into a circle and soldered
the ends of each hoop together. When
both rings were ready, they were sent to
the Assay offi ce to receive their hallmarks.
When they returned I tidied them up and
polished them as shown in photos 23 & 24.
There is one last twist to this story.
The couple arrived to pick up their rings
in the last week of May. Her ring fitted
perfectly, but his ring was three sizes
too big! They had given me the wrong
sizes: the jeweller who’d measured their
fingers had got it wrong. It was a big jobto reduce his ring by 3 sizes and there
was no time to do it by their wedding day
that weekend. They took the rings and
returned them the following week when I
was able adjust the size.
Everything worked fine in the end,
and they were very pleased with the final
result. ■21 22
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