The Weight of Money

My honey is a metal worker, loves to make parts and bits from raw chunks of metal. Mostly it works out to new tool bits or something that the store either doesn’t have or he just doesn’t want to go and buy. We agreed pretty early that he’d make the wedding rings on the lathe. Last night he made a test ring and it turned out great.

To buy materials for the rings, he bought three nutes. Two were of a pretty high density metal and one was made of titanium. The plan was to have titanium wedding rings. We were talking about the precision needed to get two rings out of one nut and the risk of messing it up and not being able to do it. I laughed and asked why he didn’t just buy two titanium bolts. The response? “This nut cost fourteen dollar.” I love it. I responded that we could be buying premade rings and be paying $1400 or something ridiculous. I think with the other two nuts, the total cost for all three was about $34 or so. And I do understand that when you’re just buying a few nuts, that does sound ridiculous. However, when you’re making wedding rings, it feels a bit silly to worry about buying two high priced nuts.

Oh yeah, for clarity sake, I love the rings and the fact that we’ll have two wedding rings for $14 ($34 when you include the test materials). This is not so much about frugality, we’d spend more if either of us had an interest in “traditional” rings, but about getting what we want and seeing how it doesn’t have to cost a lot.

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