Afternoon all,
Haven't been contributing much to the forum in recent months as haven't had a whole lot of spare time, but I am however still lurking in the shadows reading posts when I can.
Made this commissioned ring recently and thought I'd upload a couple of short video clips giving a basic outline of my work flow for any novices that are interested.
It's made from Argentium silver and the stone is a 9.5mm trillion pink sapphire. The designs not to my own personal taste, but it's what the customer asked for so fair enough. Luckily she's pleased with the finished ring.
Only slightly unusual thing about making this ring I'd say is that I chose to cast the bezel, and used cuttlefish to do it. As anyone who has seen my other posts on here, I'm a big fan of using cuttlefish due to its cost and what you can actually achieve with it which is sometimes surprising.
The only slight drawback is that there's more cleanup with cuttlefish items but still nothing drastic and it's resulted in a very strong bezel. The other advantage is that if I'd wanted to then the bezel could have been easily punched, textured or had details soldered onto it without fear of damaging the thin walls.
Anyway hope you like, any questions or critique the fire away as per usual.
Cheers,
Nick
https://youtu.be/7oiuZiIRV9I
https://youtu.be/Jj_2popwuNc
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