One of my clients has discovered thumb rings, so I made these three out of sterling to give her a choice of designs.
The first is filigree with leaf shapes and tube set red crystals. The leaf shapes were soldered in while flat, but the tubes were added on a ceramic soldering cone after bending.
Wire for borders and shanks, 1.3mm round. Wire for leaves 0.7mm flattened.
The next is a flat ring with a bezel set amethyst and two citrines. Small oval bezels can be tough to set, so I used my Dremel engraver with the tip reversed as a mechanical hammer.
Roll textured back plate 0.7mm. Wire for rims, 1.2mm sterling.
Bezel strip 0.45mm fine silver, made from rolled down round wire.
The last is a flush set ring made from oval wire, using 6x 2.2mm black diamonds and 6x 2.0mm white diamonds. I was way out of my comfort zone for this one, as I don’t have a microscope, just a 6x magnification headband and my eyes were tiring rather quickly.
Drawn down sterling oval wire, 2.4x 4.5mm. Dennis.
Very nice Dennis. I’ve become quite a ring person recently probably because I don’t have to think about them once they are on. I’d love to wear any one of those but I’d probably need to take better care of them
Dennis, they are lovely and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain how you have made them. So helpful for those less experienced. Thank you!
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