Make a silver ring in a day

So a week late but better late than never!

Last Saturday, I took another course titled 'Make a silver ring in day'. And so I did! It was great fun and I enjoyed it a lot though it can be very loud and quite frankly exhausting because you just don't sit down much during this time.

The instructor was fantastic and instead of forcing us to do a simple ring, she encouraged us to make our own designs and showed us ways of how to accomplish different patterns. Now, you know me... my only creative input to ANYTHING when it comes to design is : MUSICAL NOTES. So I figured I'll make a ring with musical notes on it. Halfway through doing it, I have to admit that I wish I hadn't gone through all the trouble but once it was finished, I was glad I did!

See the pics below for the process (though I have to apologize again for the bad quality of the first few pics - my camera phone just doesn't do macro!!!)

Enjoy! :-)
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Ok so this is what it looked like to start with - a simple, long-ish piece of silver, cut to size to fit my finger.



Next thing I had to do was heat it up, then etch the design on it - getting these stave lines perfectly straight was a pain in the a**!!!


Then I had to hammer in the notes, which bent the silver piece...


...so I had to hammer it straight, then add the vertical lines for the notes themselves.


This is what the piece then looked like on the back!


This is what the actual ring looks like after bending/hammering it into shape and soldering the ends to eachother (multiple times!!!)


And then it got pickled (which means throwing it into some acid solution which turns the whole thing completely white) and after the pickle and a good wash the final bit was to polish it to near perfection on this very dangerous polishing machine. VERY freaky that thing, so for the first part I let my instructor polish it for me, then I took over.


The final result :-) Isn't it gorgeous??????????