my faves from HIGH SCHOOL, time of the Wolverines (part #3)

DOMING to the max

This piece is very complicated...I had to saw out the band to fit the top ring. I also had to form the top ring and file it down with a half round file so that it fit the band. Then I formed a sterling dome and soldered it into the top ring. The last step was to soldered a tube set into the center of the dome and set the peridot gemstone into it. Then to give it a bit more sparkle, I used a diamond bit tool on the dremel and tapped in a texture in a band around the top ring.


This ring was made with sterling wire, sterling sheet, and brass sheet metal. I punched out and domed one brass disc and one silver disk and soldered them together, then I cut it in half and soldered it to the inside of the larger sterling dome. Then the whole thing was soldered to the sterling band I formed.


Here is a ring I made out of sterling and a slice of a wooden dowel. The decorative feature on the ring consists of three sterling domes I soldered together and then continued to drilled a hole through them and soldered a sterling wire though the hole and glued it into the wooden band. To make the band I cut off a slice of a dowel rod, then drilled out the center and stained it. The reason it appears so rustic is because I never cleaned off the fire scale from the torch, I just sanded it down a bit with some sand paper.


Here is a little sprouting seed sculpture! The pebbles holding it up are made up of three sterling domes, the seed is made of two brass domes soldered together with a sliced piece bent back as if it were sprouting. The stem is made of sterling wire with one copper leaf soldered on.