i am paul steenbrink, i'm 51 years old and i've been working as a goldsmith for 27 years face-to-face rings is a concept that weintroduced two years ago we've developed rings that are always unique because their owners' face profiles are on them we receive photos of the peoplewho will be on the rings based on those photos we'lldraw face profile outlines and when we have those outlineswe can create the ring with an ultimaker 3d printer we printthe ring in plastic and use it to create a mold
and cast a one-on-one version of the ringin steel, silver or gold you could not have afforded to do thisif you tried it 20 or 30 years ago you can design somethingpretty on your computer screen but if it's finished and the customer wears itand it turns out to be a disappointment then you've made a beautiful ringthat is unsightly on someone's hand and we work with gold, which is toovaluable a resource to waste if someone is interested in a ringthat is in our regular collection and it's 10mm wide, but they tell usthey want to see it in 6mm then we can print a prototype and show it,see if the customer likes that width
we could never have made this jewelry ifi didn't have the possibility
how to 3d print metal,to 3d print with an ultimaker for us it's really a device thathelps in the production of jewelry but in the end i am still the one whoneeds to create and finish the rings it's one of the tools at our disposal
