Had some more fun with tubing today. It’s kinda 70’s monumental minimalism meets your hand. I can imagine a hospital somewhere commissioned a sculpture like this for the lawn.
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Ring-A-Day: Tubes and Cubes Ring
Ring-A-Day: Hammered Sterling Stack of Rings
My caster didn’t finish today’s piece so at 5pm I had to scramble a bit. I had some sterling wire and fashioned some hammered rings. These are always fun as bracelets, but I’ve discovered they’re quite nice as rings too.
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Ring-A-Day: Argentium Double Band With Rutilated Quartz
I was getting a lot of deep firescale in my castings, which takes a long time to remove and really kills the shine, so I tried Argentium silver. At first I made castings that were one piece so I wouldn’t have to solder. Today I tried soldering this amazing alloy. I did almost everything wrong, and yet it came out o.k.
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Ring-A-Day: Rutilated Quartz Needles in a Sterling Setting
It’s fun to carve settings for these big rocks. Quartz comes in so many beautiful varieties with lots of inclusions. My favorite pieces are alway expensive, though. (It’s a good sign that I’m picking the right rocks)
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Ring-A-Day: Square in a Circle
I was playing with the lathe. Wax was flying everywhere. Then I got the idea to chop off the sides of the circle. Simple seems to win pretty often with me.
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