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Fine Silver and Moonstone<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Irene Knoop.\u00a0 This beautiful granulated ring is made from fine siver with an apricot moonstone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

To get the length right for her shank, we wrapped a wire the same diameter as the twisted wire we made\u00a0around the joint of the finger she wanted to wear it on.\u00a0 She then straightened it out and cut her length of twisted wire.\u00a0 Only then can the spiral wires be made to the right length.\u00a0 As we have discussed before, the spirals have to be made with a minimum of plier contact to prevent dings.\u00a0 You can masking tape your round nose\u00a0pliers to minimize dings but it will not protect you from compression marks if you are too heavy handed.\u00a0 I also hate the residue it leaves on my beautiful pliers.\u00a0 This can be removed with acetone ( AWAY from your kiln and torch ) but I still rarely do it.\u00a0 Once Irene had made two nice double ended spiral wires that ended level with her twisted wire we laid all three wires on a really flat non-asbestos block in preparation for soldering.\u00a0 We soldered them all together in eight places.\u00a0 Soldering of this shank is really more like tacking because heavy use of solder on this shank will result in a sloppy, flooded look.\u00a0 Soldering of twisted wire always runs this risk because the grooves in twisted wire act as capillary action on steriods.\u00a0 If you do not pull away the moment the solder flows, it will rapidly run along the twisted wire and fill in the grooves.\u00a0 As you can see, Irene did a great job avoiding these pitfalls.\u00a0 Her ring came out beautifully.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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