Soooo behind. I'm lousy with commissions right now and all of them have been very hard.
This was a commission for a lady who had lost a ring that had a lot of sentimental value to it, and this is the closest copy we could come to. Her original had a tibetan glass stone in the center, and was a little bit bigger, but such is life.
The studio isn't really set up for larger scale silver work with lots of soldering, and this ring is both. I ended up having to make my own homespun flux for it, because my spray flux I had was burning out too fast and the soldering wasn't working too well. It's been a LONG time since I've soldered a bezel onto a shank. I'm going to guess at 5 years. It's not like riding a bicycle it turns out. It's also been the same 5 years since I've actually set a cabochon, but that went okay.
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