{"id":22054,"date":"2015-05-12T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22054"},"modified":"2016-09-10T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:48:39","slug":"custom-printed-signet-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22054","title":{"rendered":"Custom Printed Signet Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SignetPropnomicon recently mentioned<\/a> this custom 3D-printed Elder Sign Signet Ring<\/a> and noted casually, “Like a growing number of Mythos items it was designed on a computer and then printed out at Shapeways.” And my brain went, “record scratch<\/i> You can DO that?”<\/p>\n

Why yes, yes you can. I am so behind the times.<\/p>\n

Shapeways<\/a> provides a variety of 3D design and printing services, and many of their users sell cool custom jewelry. Nonconformity, the shop owner who designed the Elder Sign ring, offers a ring from Once Upon a Time<\/a>, and also does custom designs<\/a> on request. If you search the Shapeways site for “signet ring<\/a>” you’ll get lots of other designs including lions<\/a>, skulls<\/a>, and even My Little Pony<\/a>. Several other shops also offer custom work, so if you have a family crest or other design that you’ve always wanted as a signet, you can check those out.<\/p>\n

Depending upon the material selected, the rings are surprisingly inexpensive. A plastic one suitable for cosplay is around $12US, stainless steel is $25US, and brass is $50US. Even rings with fancier metals, like sterling silver or gold plating, are less than $100US.<\/p>\n

This type of affordable bespoke design is a perfect accessory for a costume (or just to wear as jewelry). Dracula, for instance, surely wore a signet ring (there are some licensed ones floating around, such as this<\/a> and this<\/a>, that you can use for inspiration). Boris Karloff’s mummy wore a scarab<\/a>. There’s a cool vintage-y “wolfman” ring here<\/a>. And that doesn’t begin to cover all of the modern possibilities like a house crest from Harry Potter<\/i> or Game of Thrones<\/i>. (Obviously, many designs are licensed and can’t be copied exactly, but you should be able to create something that captures the flavor of the design without running afoul of copyright.)<\/p>\n

If you’re handy with 3D design, you can cut out the middleman and use Shapeways to print your uploaded patterns directly. Custom rings made of an inexpensive material would be a very cool party or wedding favor, a useful way to identify team members in a LARP, and they’d also be handy for things like “largesse” at SCA events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Propnomicon recently mentioned this custom 3D-printed Elder Sign Signet Ring and noted casually, “Like a growing number of Mythos items it was designed on a computer and then printed out at Shapeways.” And my brain went, “record scratch You can DO that?” Why yes, yes you can. I am so behind the times. Shapeways provides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24748,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22054\/revisions\/24748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}