Continuing Hard Work

Last night's class work hard learning for the first time how to construct bezels. Students worked on continuing projects and some new projects, too. Take a look:


This is Casteen's finished ring. She started and finished in one night! She sized the bezel to the stone, soldered it closed, then soldered it to a base sheet of silver. Below, you can see the decorative ring shank she designed in silver wire and then soldered to the back. Very nice!

Back view of Casteen's ring.

Susan finished her "labor of love" pin last night too. She followed a sketch she'd done of a collage of hearts- and cut out each one separately in silver, brass and copper, before soldering them to a base sheet of silver. She then trimmed the back sheet and soldered on a handmade pin back to the backside. This pin is about 2-1/2" long.

Stay tuned next week for more finished projects!