Adjustable ring featuring a rose quartz cab
I opted to make an adjustable ring featuring a rose quartz cab. The cab measures 1″x1/2″.
After creating the bezel cup, I soldered it onto the pre-shaped ring shank.
Once it came out of the pickle, the stone was set, the shank shaped and final clean up was done! =)
Thank you for looking!
Deborah aka Sneekbead
Deborah L Gray
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Large Scale Decorations
Today I had the opportunity to take a class in Mt. Vernon, just north of Columbus Ohio. The studio is called Hammer Song Farm. It was something very different from the classes I have taken before. It was a Welding Class. We used all sorts of great new tools to make a Kinetic Garden sculpture. We made butterflies that fly in the wind. Their wings move and the balance on a pole and can move with the wind. We began the aging process with various chemicals and once it gets outside, the patina will continue to get better and better.
While this isn’t exactly Jewelry, I am using this as my week 2 YOJ entry. Hey, it is jewelry for my garden.
I cannot wait to get this out to my garden this spring. For now, it will sit in my home where I can enjoy it and the kids can make it fly.
Melissa
Marquise Series: Bead Cap 1 (2010)
Marquise Series: Bead Cap 1 (2010)
Sterling silver, fine silver
Constructed, cold-joined, woven
L 2.7 cm x W 2.6 cm
Last week’s project was about going beyond a simple marquise shape to a compound shape. This week, I’m going a step further and moving into working in 3D.
The original germ for this piece was a project I made in 2003 as a Secret Santa gift. The Cathedral Egg Pendant was made of two pieces, connected with bead links. Cathedral Egg was inspired by a piece, called “Gluttony”, which I had made for the “Heavenly Virtues/Deadly Sins” exhibition presented by Object Design Gallery the same year.
The ladder weaving here was very time consuming to do, but the effect is so nice!
I think this really needs to grace a fabulous lampwork bead by some superbly talented artist. The problem I’m finding is that I need a big bead: the base of this bead cap is almost (2.5 cm (1 inch) across. So, I’m on the hunt for something appropriate. It still needs to go into the tumbler to shine it up, but I wanted to get it posted.
Other views can be seen on my blog, a wrapturous blog. Thanks for looking!
Dianne
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