TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring

The ring I was work­ing on for JM1 at Pratt is finally done.

The shiny grey-black on the top of the ring is liver of sul­fur patina heav­ily worked with a brass brush. I got as lit­tle of the LoS onto the ring band as pos­si­ble and it only took a few min­utes with sand paper to knock it back to a nice brushed silver.

The front has been slightly recessed by push­ing it down over a large dap­ping punch. I wanted to pre­vent the fine strips between the branches from get­ting caught on cloth­ing etc.

I am par­tic­u­larly pleased with how the tex­tur­ing on the dome has sur­vived the con­struc­tion process.

I’m pleased with it. It’s awk­ward to wear for every­day because the top dome sits so far above my fin­ger. I’d like to make another one with the dome set down into the ring band. Maybe next quarter.

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