Advice on how to make a pea pod style ring
The basic steps should be easy. The real manufacturing work - I never tried :)

Here are the steps:


Get the silver. Ideally it is already a ribbon of the desired width.
If you do not have a ribbon, then it should be a thick wire.
(optional) Transform the wire into a ribbon. You can use a (small) hammer, or some other specialty device.
(optional) Hopefully, you will not need to melt the silver to make it a ribbon.
Bend the silver ribbon longitudinally, as if you want to make a long tube (similar to a syringe needle.) Do not close the tube!!
Add the pebbles / beans / whatever in their final position.
Close the tube at the extremities, and around the beans, to keep the beans in place.
Decide if the ring has to be closed (O-shaped around the finger, or if you want a spiral - similar to some bracelets).
Bend the tube around a round "stick", similar in diameter with the target finger.
Close the tube longitudinally (probably at the same time with step 9).
"Weld" the end of the ring, if you want to have it O-shaped. I have no idea how to weld easily. Alternatively, you can use some glue. Or stick one end of the tube into the other end (similar with using the extension tubes of a vacuum cleaner). Use the hammer to force the end together, closing the ring.


I hope you have the patience to go through all this.



Note: you may want to try the same by using some cheap material, instead of silver. The first which comes to my mind is metal cans - from food (thicker), or from beverages (thinner).



Another note: you may want to use some glue when adding the beans, to minimize the chances of losing them if the ring goes through a bad time. You may even use the glue around the "pod". Or use some resin instead of glue, for the same purpose. It is better if it is elastic, so it will not crack in case of bad handling.