The occasional customer has wanted an engraving added to the inside of RONRING, and it eventually dawned on me that I liked the way the inside of the ring looked.

So I thought to myself, "Why not turn RonRing inside out?" After all, it was by (inadvertently) turning a very early hand-made ring inside out that I came up with the design for CARMEN, so I know from experience that this approach can work. I couldn't see any reason why it wouldn't work in this case, but for me the only way to be sure is to actually do it, and see what happens.

Therefore I severely abused an existing RonRing, and soldered it back together after first flattening it and then turning it inside out. My suspicion that I'd still have a functioning puzzle was confirmed, so I had my 3D guy do the necessary modeling. Since I've long thought that RonRing can be somewhat flimsy under certain circumstances (on a large finger, for example, when subjected to force) I beefed up RonRing's dimensions significantly.

RRIO (RonRingInsideOut) is the result. As with RonRing, the first and last bands are identical, while the number of intermediate bands is variable. With RRIO, the maximum recommended number of intermediate bands is 4, simply because RRIO6, with a width of 10 mm, is about as wide a ring as most people would be comfortable wearing.

With all my other rings, at the places where 2 bands cross each other those bands are only half the usual thickness, but that is not so with RRIO. The result is that the thickness at the cross-overs is greater than anywhere else, giving the ring a step-like appearance. Polishing would remove the crispness of these steps, since it always involves the removal of a certain amount of metal, particularly from high spots and sharp edges, and this is why I recommended a satin finish only.

Of course, you may not want the unusual tactile feature provided by these steps, in which case go ahead and request that your ring be polished. Indeed, you can go even further, and request that the steps are eliminated entirely, by me grinding them out of existence so that the upper surface of the ring is all the one level.