Okies, I just had a read through the tutorial and it makes sense, for the most part, except you did things a different way to me. And also I managed to get the text on both the inside and the outside of the Ring - pain in the a*** I can tell you.

And another difference is, I too originally used a torus+cylinder combination to get the Ring shape, but David recommended simply using a torus by itself as it will require less calculations during the final render.

But that was still a great tut, Thunderstone - between the two tutorials, people should have no trouble making the Ring now :)