ShepherdCreations: making rings on mandrels is just a real pain the butt if you ask me, the mandrel gets hot as heck and glows like all get out - and you have to clean the bead release out of the ring. and you have to dip the mandrels and let them dry. my oh my. just make them using a puntil and save the grief
or buy jewelry from
http://www.magmajewels.com/
cuz she does it soooooo well! (years of practice)
CO-Phantom: you can check out any of your favorite tool distributors, Frantz, ArrowSprings, Wale, etc... look for the graphite reamer and get the 10mm-25mm
brimmy - yes you can do this technique in my tutorial with 104coe - but they are more brittle, not nearly as durable - theres another tutorial on here for soft glass rings murano style:
http://lampworketc.com/forums/showth...=Ring+Tutorial