Topic: Making thumbrings without pain...
So I've made 6 billiard ball thumbrings now, and a few of them are pretty good, some look amazing, but most are terrible. The pain is on the inside of my thumb right at the joint (where the ring is pressing). At first I thought the weight wasn't being distributed correctly, and made it more contoured which helped, but still painful. Then I tried to make a wider band so it didn't have as much "play", but looking at other thumbrings that are production or antiques, it seems they didn't use extremely wide bands.
This leaves me to question what the problem is, and thought that you guys may have ran into this before. Here's the latest ring, and it seems to fit perfectly until I pull the string.....which causes significant pain.
This ring is slightly too large, and can slip off of my thumb with enough work, but is only a millimeter too large I think. Thanks in advance for any info!