Monday, April 4, 2011

A wire-wrapped ring

Here is another wire-wrapped ring that I have made.  You make this ring in a similar manner to my "how to" on wire wrapped rings as mentioned in a previous blog, but add a few tweaks.  First, you will need a lot more wire, since it will be wrapped more than the ring mentioned in the blog.  Make sure when you anchor the stone, one side should be significantly longer.  You will be using the long end to wrap around the entirety of the ring (this is step 6 in the "how to" blog), and wrapping up and around the stone, ending with a decorative coil achieved by bending the tip of the wire, then using chain-nose pliers to hold the wire while you twist the wire into the coil.  This ring has quite a high profile.  I added a 5 or so inch long wire to the other side of the coil to even out the wrapping (to do this, I bent the end of the wire around the wire coming out of the stone, then tightly wrapped the wire around the ring to match the other side).  Voilá!

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