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Sterling rings & bails for gluing–exclusively at Rings & Things

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

You asked for it, and we listened!  By (very) popular request, you can now buy sterling “glue-on” adjustable rings and oval bails — exclusively at Rings & Things.  Glue on your favorite art bead, upcycled found object, or polymer clay creation.

Our new customizable finger rings are sterling silver, 1 to 1.5mm thick. Their glue pad is a textured 7 to 8mm round.  Adjust them to almost any size!  It’s easy to expand and contract these rings to size them.  They come in two styles:

Here’s the “plain” disk finger ring for gluing (item #51-500-02). It’s a 3 to 3.5mm-wide band.

And this is the “wavy” adjustable ring (item #51-500-01).  It’s a hammered-disk finger ring for gluing, with a 3-3.5mm wide band. 

We’ve also added three great exclusive sterling oval bails for gluing.  These have one side smooth, the other textured, and they come in three sizes:
Item #41-592-50 is our small sterling oval bail.  It measures approximately 18 x 8 x 3.6mm.  (By the way, you can convert these numbers to inches…but on most computer screens our item pictures are life-size.)  The gluing surface is 11×8mm. This small bail fits chain or cord up to 2.5mm thick.
The other two sizes of these bails fit chain or cord up to 3mm thick.  Shown above is item #41-552-51, the medium oval bail.  This one measures approximately 24 x 10 x 4mm, with a 16 x 10mm gluing pad. Below is #41-592-52, our large sterling silver oval bail, at approximately 31 x 13 x 4mm. The gluing pad on it is 21 x 13mm.

To attach items to all of these gluable findings, we recommend using 2-part epoxies.  Other adhesives that work well with these rings and bails include:

  • E-6000 glue
  • Super New Glue
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    This just in: update on tube-top bails!

    Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

    Rings & Things has designed a fresh, new alternative to glueable Aanraku bails!

    Our Fall Supplement announces the new, R&T-exclusive plated tube-top bails as “now available online” (page F-2). They are not available, yet…

    The tube-top bails were supposed to be in our warehouse by October 1.  Due to a manufacturing delay (plating them) they are yet to be received.  They may ship in time for us to have them in stock on Halloween.

    In the meantime here’s the latest news about the tube-top bails:

    • We’re keeping a list of customers who are interested in these bails. (You can’t pre-order them, but you can have first crack when they come in.)  Call our awesome sales people at (800) 366-2156 to be added to the list!
    • The bails now have stock numbers (and extended descriptions) in our online store:

    So you can search for these bails in our store and get more information on them.

    We know how eagerly people are awaiting the tube-top bails.  Stay tuned, and we’ll let you know as soon as we have them.  Thanks so much for your enthusiasm, and for your understanding!