Acrylic & Silver Stack Rings Project Download

Description

Expand your cutting, filing, sanding, drilling, and forming skills as you modify them to successfully work with metal and plastic. Make acrylic and silver rings using fabrication, riveting, annealing and balling wire techniques. Once these techniques are mastered, enjoy altering the design in multiple ways.

Required Materials:

• ?” acrylic sheet in various colors
• 18 gauge sterling silver sheet
• 18 gauge sterling silver wire

Tools:

• HAND AND FABRICATION: Jewelers saw and saw blades 1/0, Bur Life lubricant, texturing stamps and hammers, drill press, drill bits #60 and #55, center punch and anvil, wire cutters, chasing hammer, stepped ring mandrel, drill press vise
• FINISHING: Various files, rough sanding disc or sand paper, wet/dry sandpaper 220-600 or sanding pads, liver of sulfur patina,umice powder orsteel wool
• SOLDERING: Smith Little Torch or other small tipped torch, third arm and tweezers
• OTHER: Toaster oven, timer, thin leather gloves, ruler, utility knife, safety glasses
• OPTIONAL: Circle draw plate, tapered ring mandrel

Technique: sawing, fabrication, riveting, annealing and balling wire
Originally Published: Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist August 2014