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The plate, and the finished ring with the engraving showing.
An Inlay Inside an Inlay
Whiskey barrel wood is set into the titanium. Then a second channel is cut into that wood, and green opal goes into it.
It is harder to do than a single inlay and it is the reason the ring reads the way it does: wood on both edges, and a band of green running down the centre of it.
Green opal
A different colour depending on where you stand.
Four materials
Nothing in it is decoration.
Titanium
The band
Light, hard and effectively unbendable. It holds the channels without needing to be thick, which is what leaves room for two inlays instead of one.
Whiskey Barrel Wood
The first inlay
Barrel wood set into the titanium, running the full circumference. It is the layer the second channel is cut into.
Green Opal
The second inlay
Laid into the channel cut inside the wood and finished flush. It shifts through green, blue and gold depending on where the light is.
The Engraving
Inside only
Cut into the inner face of the band, where it is against the skin and nobody else sees it. Which is usually the point of putting it there.
In motion
The opal is never one colour.
Green through blue through gold, depending only on where the light is coming from. A photograph can show you one of those. This is the rest of them.
Yours
Two inlays, or three, or whatever it takes.
A channel inside a channel is more work and it shows. Tell me what you want in it and I will tell you honestly whether it can be built.
