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TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring">TGIF — Pierced ‘Single Tree’ Ring

10 May 2009

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 […]

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WIP — Pierced Copper Ring">WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

21 April 2009

Progress has been made on the ring. A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle. That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape. The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring […]

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WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.">WIP — Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

24 March 2009

I’m tak­ing Jew­elry and Met­al­smithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Cen­ter. Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced cop­per sol­dered to a half dome. Below are pic­tures of the two tops that I made last week. The pat­tern is gluesd on with rub­ber cement and then […]

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