This was a hugely fun one to design & carve: the scattered and fossilized remains of a dinosaur onto a ring! One thing that never ceases to amaze me is that they existed over a spread of like 160 million years. The Velociraptor was a relatively recent species, at a measly 75 million years old (compared to oldsters who date back to 230 million years).
Velociraptor battling (winning, I daresay) a Protoceratops. A dinosaur (the Protoceratops, that is), incidentally, that some historians speculate might have been behind the origin of the griffin myths. They think that well-preserved fossilized skeletons of the dinosaur were found by Scythian gold miners in central Asia, who then traded with the Greeks. Stories of griffins emerged right about the time the two groups made contact.
More photos around the band here:
When my girlfriend showed me this blog and a few rings on it, I thought they were pretty and then forgot about it. Over the course of a year or so, she showed me more and more as time progressed. Before I knew it, she and I were coming up with ideas for our own on that imaginary world where we would do this. That woman, who is now my wife, knew all along I think, that this was the place our rings would come from. This exact band now sits on my left hand, and I could not be more happy with it.