Long time have not posted anything so I decided to share some ring manufacturing equipment.
My latest toy from another trip to Germany - forging press, widely used in jewelry making before ww2, during ww2.
Can not say that my wife is very happy to see such thing in garden. It stand approx 4 meters tall... Have to build shed around it (my workshop have no more free space for new toys) and eventually to start restoration process.

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There are less original rings than you think, much less...

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