Solved the splitting shank problem by rolling the clay into a ball and cookie-cutting it. There’s no seam to separate. I had to replace the CZ though. It got milky white in the kiln.
308/365
Ring-A-Day: BronzClay Partial Polish with CZ
Category: bronze
Ring-A-Day: BronzClay with 3mm CZ
A tiny gem that reflects so much light. I’ll try making my own clay prongs again soon, but these embedable lost wax parts come out nice.
307/365
Ring-A-Day: Half-round BronzClay Ring
Attempted a half-round metalclay ring. The ring split in the kiln. Could be that I didn’t add enough slip to the join. A little filing and solder fixed it right up. Tapped it back to round on the mandrel, and voila! Good to know that BronzClay rings are malleable enough to resize.
306/365
Ring-A-Day: Rough Champagne Ring
Embeddable prongs sure beat hand-rolled prong failure (see yesterday’s ring). Makes setting a 6mm Champagne CZ much easier too. Don’t worry, I’ll try the hand-rolled kind again soon.
I polished the inside of the setting to bounce some light into the stone and left the shank rough. I kinda like the look.
305/365
Ring-A-Day: Prong Fail
BronzClay didn’t like what I did to it. Its prongs kept falling off. The security of the stone was at risk, so today’s ring is going in the scrap bin.
304/365