I have a confession to make. I am ashamed to admit, it has been a rather long time since I have been in a workshop therefore I am in need of some practice with my jewellery making skills. So to throw myself in the deep end whilst I was in London I bought a selection of Gemstones from A. E. Wards in the hope of making some rings. As soon as I got back to Birmingham I bought all the tools I needed and began work on a simple bezel set ring with the Blue Topaz I bought. I started off by making a simple ring. Now I have rather large hands so I made my ring to size O and used 3mm silver wire to balance out the size of the stone. I then used 0.45mm silver sheet and measured my stone to cut a collet for the bezel and soldered that onto the sheet. I cut and tidied up the bezel setting and soldered to the ring. I cleaned it up by hand and then put it in the tumbler to take out any scuffs. I then set the beautiful Topaz in the setting myself and cleaned up the ring.
I was very pleased with the results and get loads of compliments about my ring. It was nice to be able to wear something I have made and be proud to show off my new skills.
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So being new to The School of Jewellery and to the different technologies out there going to visit the TCT show at the NEC was an interesting experience for me.
We went as a class to learn about the new technology available and to being to research different CAD/ CAM companies out there that we could utilise in our own projects. So first impressions of the whole show were quite overwhelming. Walking around at first was tricky as I didn't really know what to look for but as we got into the swing of looking at similar machines and software we were able to make more informed queries to the companies. |
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