Want to make a ring with a little movement? A ring with 2 (or more!) sides to wear face up so you can change it whenever the mood strikes and you pretty much have 2 completely different rings in one? Yes please! This class is perfect if you like variety. You learn how to make a ring with a central part that can swivel. The best part? Swivels can take place in different ways and different places on the ring: between posts or inside a frame, horizontally or vertically over the finger, or even higher up off the finger! This class doesn’t cover what to carve on your swivel pieces! I’m sure you have enough ideas of how you want to engrave, texture, carve and set stones in these surfaces!
Techniques covered
- Prepare a ring blank: pierce, size, file parallel and how to measure this
- File a taper
- Use a set square to get 90-degree angles
- Create different shaped ring shanks
- Remove wax weight
- Create different kinds of swivel pieces
- Framed and frameless swivels
Tools and materials
Essential
- Flat ring wax with centre hole
- Wax slices/block
- Saw + sawblades
- Handfiles + needle files
- Wax ring sizer + Ring stick
- Callipers
- Dividers + Ruler
- Scribe
- Carving tools
- Micro motor/foredom and ball burrs (different sizes, use what you have on hand)
- Wax heating pen
- Pin vise
- Set square
- Metal wire
- Drawing templates (different shapes)
What’s included
- 115 page PDF with photos and written instructions. You can download the PDF for easier access.
- 4 instructional videos, around 2 hours total
- Opportunity to ask questions
- Lifetime access to all the material
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Tutor
Hi I’m Sandy. I learned jewellery making, including wax carving, at the school of jewellery in Dublin. After finishing my course, I taught at the school for a year and I also taught a wax carving workshop at Lucy Walker Jewellery in Kuala Lumpur. After learning all the basics of wax carving, I practiced and experimented A LOT. Something didn’t work out the first time I tried it? No problem, just try again (and again and again…) until it does work! Practice really is the only way to get better at something :) I made this class to help you in your wax carving journey. It’s made with love (and some exasperated sighs and curses when things don’t go like I want them to). I love wax carving and I’m excited to teach you!