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.
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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.
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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.
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What do you get when you mix nitrogen, erbium, and dysprosium? What ever it is, it probably tastes bad.
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Lots of orders give me little time to do creative work, but I squeezed this one in. Thanks for all your holiday shopping everyone!
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