This ADVANCED ring is about creativity and problem solving...
Sketch out Multiple Designs:
Use 2 or 3 different metals: Wire and Flat sheet are available in...
Use 2 or 3 different metals: Wire and Flat sheet are available in...
- Copper= flexible and good for texture and patina
- Brass = holds a good shine, has a high melting temperature, thin gauges are good for sawing, can be darkened with Gun Bluing
- Nickel Silver = can be hard to bend, thin gauges are good for sawing, can be difficult to get scratch free (yet, when enough time is spent sanding it holds a shine very well)
- Sanding/satin finish
- Roller mill
- Patina: Liver of Sulfer, Heat/Annealed, Gun Bluing
- Hand hammering or Texture hammering
- Brass brush or Scoured surface (intentional scratches that create a consistent surface)
- High Shine, Buffed/Polished
- Hammered or forged
- Roller Mill
- Wire Wrapping
- Drilling
- Pierced and/or Sawed shapes
- Doming (Convex or Concave)
- Jump Rings (soldered to the surface or pierced through)
- Filed edges (beveled, or a pattern filed into the surface/edges)
- Think it through from start to finish. Generally, you will construct the pieces separately, bring them to the sanded stage, then join them together, and complete the ring with finishing touches and surface treatments.
- List the steps in order (use various tabs on this website to help you plan our your steps)
- List the techniques (When will you pic solder, sweat solder, forge texture, stop to anneal?)
- Which metal and which solder will you use, at which stage?