Hi Allie! I promised I'd snap some pics during the creation of your ring. Remember I said the metal gets really ugly during the process? Well here's proof. Yes this is 14k gold. Hopefully you can see that in the first pic.
Making a 14k Gold Spinner Ring with Sterling Silver Spinners
First job, cut gold after measuring many times!
Second, annealing the gold so I can form it, which requires repeated heating to the metal.
Third, forming metal around ring mandrel
Cutting excess metal to ensure correct ring size
Finally, soldering the ring with gold solder and flux with my trusty torch. Then it goes into a pickle (which is a funny word because it's not edible) and then gets cleaned up ready for the next stage...stay tuned!
Hi Allie,
Here are the next couple of steps in making your ring. After lightly texturing with hammer, I anneal the gold again (heat it with torch) so I can dap it.
Next comes the forming of the "spinner" rings. These are 16 gauge sterling silver made from wire, which I cut to each be the same size. Formed them and then soldered them closed.
Once the spinners are pickled and shined and cleaned up oh so pretty, I place them around the gold shank ring and start very gently dapping. The tool is called a dapper, I use a rawhide mallot on a block of metal to gently dap each side of the ring, flipping it over and over...until I get the "flare" I want.
I'll have your final pic up later...;-)
Final Product:
Allies Ring, 14k Gold with Sterling Silver spinners, my now Aptly titles 'Oh She Spins' ring...
13 comments:
grogeous and very imformative! Ive made a couple rings with that technique. I know some use an anticlastic stake, but I can be bothered to spend the $100 on one, yet.lol
Beautiful.....the new owner will be very happy :-)
I hope you don't mind me asking, but what type of a torch do you use.....I ask because I'm having a hard time getting my torch to heat up enough to solder wide width bands.
Hiya! I use a Blazer (LARGER than the ES 1000) at home, and at an away studio where I continue to take classes, I use the big one. I find my Blazer is just fine with my thick gauge silver and gold spinner shanks.
Oh, thank you for putting this up!
We seem to do it the same way. :)
Ohhhh, okay I get it. The flaired ends really threw me off on figuring out how to create spinners. I would look at a spinner and try to visualize how to flar the ends. Thanks Carolyn!
yep Lisa, you could make these so easily, the thing to remember is to keep your piece annealed if you are doing a lot of flaring! (now I'm thinking of Office Space) anyway...you can try it first with thinner gauge and see how easy and FUN it is!!!
Candace, I've only learned a few tricks, and they are all really the same basic thing! :-) I have a ring sizer but i dare not use it on a spinner shank after it's been flared, I like the tap tap tap of the doming tools too! :-)
Thanks for trying to include me in your treasury. :)
Yes, I'm updating my shop with new pictures and another reason I took everything down for now, is because I'm taking my stuff down to a local fine handcrafted shop, (http://www.outofourhands.com/) in hopes they like my stuff enough to sell it there. I've been so focus on that lately, that I just thought it be easier to close shop and give them all my pieces to look over. I hope to have my stuff there by the end of this week and back to me in the next two weeks. In the meantime I'm taking pictures of all my jewelry, before I take it down to them.
Wish me luck!
Carolyn, you make it look so easy! After my one attempt at a bezel...I know its not!! Beautiful work. I love mine and get lots of great comments on it.
Hugs!
Wow! I've always wanted to try making spinner ring. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you posey, practice practice practice! I just saw your work on your blog, wow yourself! Talent!
:-)
-Carolyn
Wow Carolyn, thank you so much for posting this, it's absolutely wonderful!
Now I'll have to try it myself =]
Thanks Payson! It's easy, just a matter of practice like anything else! ;-)
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