Tutorial 037: Ornate Ring
Level: advanced
Size: 1151 kb, 18 pages, 53 steps
This LONG-AWAITED tutorial shows how to make a freeform ring with a single stone (cabochon or flat coin bead) set in an ornate spiraled bezel.
Believe it or not, more than 750 photographs were taken to make this tutorial and only 50-something were used in the end. And finally after a lot of work -- success, it's here. Get ready:
take out your tools, your wire, add a bit of courage and patience, because this one is fun!
Materials:
1 flat round stone: a coin bead or cabochon measuring 14x6mm
14" 18ga soft or half hard silver wire
10" 22ga soft or half hard silver wire
8 feet 28ga dead-soft silver wire
20 to 30 small matching seed beads, sizes varying from 1mm to 2mm.
Note: you will need a ring mandrel, wooden dowel or fat pen to make the ring shank.
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