Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2015 13:26:16 GMT -5
I was going to go with "I am in love with a rock" in the heading then looked at the shape of the rock and decided RTH was not ready for something like that. lmao AND I am NOT that much in love with it.
I have had this ring blank getting lost and finding, repeat, repeat almost since I started making rings. My plan was to do some carving on it but I have yet to start carving on hard stone and I did not want this ring to be a practice piece.
A few weeks ago my ex daughter-in-law was by to visit and try to talk me out of more rocks and this plank showed up from somewhere. She suggested that I just polish it the way it is and a ring was born.
I have had some problems with breakage, more with the thulite, so I was trying to figure out a way to at least slow that down. I have mentioned before that wherever I go I am checking for new wire and cord. Some time back and somewhere I don't remember I came upon this flat wire and brought some home. It has been in the way around here for a while (the best way to find a use for something) and the ring and wire both ended up in my field of vision. Bingo. I scuffed up the ring so the glue would stick and sanded the metal to just a luster because I knew it would get beat up over time.
And here is the stone that I am in love with. Or is it a stone that I love. Oh well.
Still have a little glue to clean up and I need to grind and polish the inside edge so it is not so sharp but basically it is finished. And again I went to great lengths to provide the best possible mediocre photos.
Jim
BTW the metal is aluminum and I will not try to pass it off as anything else. How do I make fine print on here?
I have had this ring blank getting lost and finding, repeat, repeat almost since I started making rings. My plan was to do some carving on it but I have yet to start carving on hard stone and I did not want this ring to be a practice piece.
A few weeks ago my ex daughter-in-law was by to visit and try to talk me out of more rocks and this plank showed up from somewhere. She suggested that I just polish it the way it is and a ring was born.
I have had some problems with breakage, more with the thulite, so I was trying to figure out a way to at least slow that down. I have mentioned before that wherever I go I am checking for new wire and cord. Some time back and somewhere I don't remember I came upon this flat wire and brought some home. It has been in the way around here for a while (the best way to find a use for something) and the ring and wire both ended up in my field of vision. Bingo. I scuffed up the ring so the glue would stick and sanded the metal to just a luster because I knew it would get beat up over time.
And here is the stone that I am in love with. Or is it a stone that I love. Oh well.
Still have a little glue to clean up and I need to grind and polish the inside edge so it is not so sharp but basically it is finished. And again I went to great lengths to provide the best possible mediocre photos.
Jim
BTW the metal is aluminum and I will not try to pass it off as anything else. How do I make fine print on here?
