[Mik Dickinson]

Right then willow here goes.First you drill an 8 mm hole in the middle.That then goes on a jig and is tightened on with a nut.We then placed it in a lathe and turning the lathe slowly with our left hand we hammered away with an hammer lightly with our right hand.
When we had it formed we used a file while the lathe was moving to round it off.Polished it up with emery paper.
Next step was to place the ring in a collet and drill the hole to finger size,deburr it and bobs your uncle.We only used the old shilling pieces because they had a high silver content than the newer ones.