\n\t $\"Emerald$ <\/a>\n\t

Emerald and Sterling Silver<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0 It’s best with a piece like this to start with a longish piece of sterling half round.\u00a0 Six inches is the minimum,\u00a0eight inches is better.\u00a0 Too short of a length makes it more difficult to manipulate.\u00a0 Start 1\/2 to 1 inch\u00a0at the tail end and taper your wire well.\u00a0 Remember that the beauty of the ring is in it’s curves so don’t rush through your sanding and bending of the neck or tail.\u00a0 They will largely determine the success of your piece.\u00a0 The other really key element of this piece is how you set your pear shaped stone.\u00a0 I have noticed over the years that students tend to ovoid the point, saving it until last.\u00a0 When setting any\u00a0shaped stone with corners,\u00a0 it is vital to set the corners first.\u00a0 Any spare\u00a0room must be moved away from the point immediately.\u00a0 If the point is saved until last, extra\u00a0metal is moved toward the point , resulting in a sloppy looking finish.\u00a0 It’s extremely difficult to correct at that stage and it will never look as good as it could have.\u00a0 As you can see, Patricia avoided these pitfalls and did a gorgeous job on her ring.\u00a0 The snake is an enduring icon of beauty and Patricia did it justice.\u00a0 Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week- Patricia Smiley.\u00a0 I have been teaching this project to students for years but Patricia’s version turned out so beautifully it inspired me to turn it into an official school project.\u00a0 Let’s go over some of the techniques Patricia used to make it so beautiful. \u00a0 It’s best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}