I Just Could Not Wait!!!

For our anniversary I made my husband a ring AND I gave it to him 4 days before our anniversary.

I knew from the start that it could of been disastrous because I have never set a stone directly on top of a ring before. But the only way I can get better at it is to just make it and keep making rings. So I faced my fears and just jumped in.

Usually I take FOREVER to make anything as some of you may know. However, I was on a deadline and it took me only 1 day to make it. Unbelievable! Also, the ring actually fit!

The band was textured by going through a rolling mill. I then cut the length and width needed. I used Contenti's Blank Ring Sizing Chart. Choose the ring size and then added 0.5mm to that because the width of this ring was over 4 mm. This ring was 8 mm in width overall.

The stone is turquoise and measures about 6 mm. Making the bezel to go around the stone was easy. The hard part was filing the bezel to sit on the ring shank. You have to use a curved file and start to shape the bottom. Sorry...I didn't take any pictures of my journey. :(

Making the ring was a learning curve indeed and it wasn't perfect. But I think that is what makes the ring special.

Yay! It's Wednesday. Hope everyone has a great rest of the week.

Namaste
Kalaya

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