Orange ring!
Last weekend, I realized I had a $100 gift check from work that had been sitting in my purse for months unused. I had been waiting for something worthy to spend it on. Well, that's all well and good, but it had seriously been nine months. That's like the gestation period for a baby. So I decided I'd figure out what was worthy.
The answer, of course, was jewelry. So I trekked over to Metalliferous and picked up some silver, some silver wire, a digital calliper gauge, some needle files and some other useful stuff.
I have a book of jewelry projects you can make with cold connections. This means no heat required. This is useful when you don't have a soldering torch and don't really want to deal with that. Soldering is freaking hard and takes a lot more patience than I had for a 'first project in a long time'. I didn't want to be too ambitious. So I decided to do a three-layer ring.
I documented with pictures, for anyone who's interested. I'll put it in the extended entry. :)
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Inspired!
So after last weekend's dive into jewelry again, I've been inspired. I have been setting up a studio at home for a few months now. I think it will soon be finished to the point where I can start really working with metal again.
I know a number of you have expressed an interest in binary rings (see the bottom of this post) and I think I'm also going to make some binary pendants. Possibly with enameled zeroes. Or gemstones. I need to look into that.
So here's a call out to you all:
1. Are you interested in any of this (please reiterate here, even if you've told me before - so I have it all in one place)? I will stress here that this stuff is pretty unisex and is easy to make more masculine.
2. What precisely are you interested in?
I'm going to be experimenting so will put examples of work up as I go along... or perhaps put it all in a new blog of its own. Don't know yet.
I do already have some ideas. For specific people even. :> Watch this space.
