It’s an awesome ring. I love the mixture of wood and metal into a cohesive design.
That being said, please allow me to give you some food for thought and know that I mean no disrespect. The following is just my subjective opinion.
Please reconsider using meteorites if you scale up production. The Campo del Cielo meteorite is an insanely limited resource. It’s the biggest known meteorite yet only 100 tons of it have ever been found in 500 years since it got here. That may sound like a lot but for comparison there’s estimated to be 35 billion tons of gold in the earths crust alone and a quadrillion tons of diamonds in the earth as a whole.
These meteorite fragments are priceless and irreplaceable to me even though you can get them pretty cheap. Your ring appears to have about $50-$100 worth. It’s cool that regular people can afford them but I hope most people preserve them intact so future generations can see them too.
I know I’m weird about this but I have borderline religious feelings regarding meteorites. They’re just some the rarest things on earth. Finding one is a lifelong dream of mine but it will most likely never happen no matter how much I hunt. The idea of someone cutting pieces of one up to create a market for jewelry with meteorite inlays bothers me deeply.
I wish you all the success in the world but I hope you can achieve it through a different route using a different material. You’re clearly a creative, talented, ambitious, and skilled artisan so I imagine you must have other great marketable ideas.
I have a popcorn sized piece of Campo de Cielo I got as a gift. I also have a large collection rocks, crystals, minerals, and artifact finds from the last 20 years of rockhounding, (more than 500 specimens). But that tiny bit of meteorite is still the coolest object I own or probably ever will.
We’re all different but I could never dream of altering it. I keep it in a sealed container covered in mineral oil with a dehumidifier so it doesn’t oxidize/rust (it’s 93% iron so as you probably know they deteriorate quickly in the open air).
Anyways. I’m not judging you just asking you to think about it. I don’t expect everyone to have such strong feelings about this and I wish you success either way but I just wanted to add my perspective to the conversation.
I don’t like it when people topple hoodoos in the desert or spray paint over ancient cave paintings and I’d prefer people not commoditize and alter meteorites. Meteorites are like Yosemite and Yellowstone to me. I want them to be preserved so my great grandkids get to experience them the way I have.