Hi There Everyone!
Well, if it were me...I'd try a combo burrito using Michael's (FiG) tutorial on "Making Rings Off Mandrel" (here's the link):
http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=75360
With this neat looking little tool from WeaverInd (here's the link, too):
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fine-Grain-Graph...QQcmdZViewItem
To start with, after purchasing the Graphite Ring Mandrel, I'd use it as a "guide" and take a piece of paper, wind it around the size on the mandrel of the ring I intend to make, and use this as a length guide for the cutting the Latticio or rod or whatever the ring will be made from. Then you know you have the length/size ratio correct.
After following Steps/Photos #1-8 of Michael's Tutorial, at Step/Photo #9, I'd use the Graphite Ring Mandrel to do the final shaping - first into round using the smaller sizes/tip end. Then, as the ring rounds out into shape, I'd carefully (with "tongs" or "tweezers", carefully slide the ring up to the correct original size, and make sure it's "true".
How this idea sounding?
Now I want one of those Mandrels!!!! Ha...it's always something!!!
DeAnne in CA