Recently in silver class all of my attention has been on my epic bracelet (read about that here). I managed to sneakily finish a ring but that was started while I was waiting for bracelet supplies. Now I'm finished I wanted some quick, instant gratification projects. While I was making the settings for the stones I had ended up with a lot of scrappy bits of silver. These all went into a little jam jar in my tool box (another jam jar recycling opportunity) and waited. Originally when I wanted to do was solder them all together in a really random manner and make a pendant but lots were really sharp. So I decided to make some rings. I spend too much time on Etsy and Pinterest and have seen a lot of stacking rings recently. Judith, one of the ladies I sit with, had made some little silver blobs to go on a necklace out of her silver scraps and I decided they could look cute on some rings (I had a lot of scrap bits!).
Off I went to the soldering table and made a pile of scrappy bits. Making the balls is so easy. Continuously heat the metal and it will start to melt, more heat and it will start to roll around, join up and form a ball. Stop the heat then and give it a second to cool slightly, take it off too soon and your tweezers will squish it, too late and it'll be stuck to the soldering block. And yes, I experienced both!
I made 3 rings out of some round wire I had left over from the bracelet. Then sanded the bottom of the blobs so they were smooth to attach to a slightly filed ring. I soldered the blobs and then sanded and polished. 3 stacking rings using scrappy, unloved bits of silver and leftover wire, done!
Taking this picture led to a trauma with my star ring, find out here!
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