I'm really happy to share the creative process of my father-in-law, who handmade my wife's wedding band. Being from Colorado, there had to be mountains involved! Follow along as he crafts a masterpiece.
Photos and captions courtesy of The Mayor.
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| Sketch a mountain range on sticky back paper |
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| Adhere to the sheet of silver |
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| Scribe into the silver |
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| Add some detail |
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| The dremel works good |
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| A little more ruggedness |
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| Trim it up |
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| Fine tune with a file |
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| Get it flat |
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| Creating a bezel for a small stone |
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| The molten silver beads-up |
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| Small hole to locate the silver bead |
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| Hollow out the center. . . (the stone is very small and so a very small bezel. so small it was too difficult to do a normal bezel. so I did it this way) |
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| The bezel stage came later |
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| Solder mountain range to silver band |
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| Make it round |
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| Size it |
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| A little grinding |
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| A little buffing |
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| A little filing |
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| Getting close |
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| Between this point and the finished ring is when I discovered that I had to do a differant type of bezel. The whole process was the same but I had to re-make the mountains and add the bezel |
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| Congratulations Jessi and Joe! Love Ya! |
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