Some more conchs on a silver bezel set in clear resin. The sea has been generous. There are storms coming today. That usually brings more shells ashore.
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Ring-A-Day: Silver Double Conch Ring
Category: silver
Ring-A-Day: Limpet and Conch Ring
The world is my limpet with two conchs on the side. I had the chef’s special Conch Cakes at Up The Creek Raw Bar in Apalachicola yesterday. They were yummy. These are not the conchs that I ate. They were much bigger.
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Ring-A-Day: Shell Fragment Ring
The sea gives so many gifts. While walking up and down the beach you come to realize that every shell is a life lived under water. We rowed out to a pod of dolphins in a kayak yesterday and saw thousands of cannonball jellyfish swimming out to sea. This memento of sea life is preserved in clear resin on a silver ring shank.
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Ring-A-Day: Silver Starfish Ring
Sea creature found on a beach walk set with clear resin in a silver bezel after sun drying. For all you regretsy fans, that’s not “Barn Wood.” It’s beach wood. Completely different!
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Ring-A-Day: Silver and Pyrite Ring
Wow. Learned a valuable lesson today.
I’ve been carving this ring a few minutes a day for about a week. I found the cute little piece of double cube pyrite last week and wanted to make a silver setting for it. It’s a size 12 so there’s lots of rock and metal.
So what do you think I did after a week of working on this? I crushed the rock. It was almost perfect, but the prong was just a little crooked. Squeeze a little bit more and POP!
Today’s lesson: The gem is the most important thing. You can melt down metal and start over, but you can’t melt down a gem and start over.
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