A couple of days ago I finally got around to making myself a ring using one of the cabs I bought in Parsborro the summer before last. That would be the silver ring on the right, a fairly basic claw style (although it's my own particular assembly method) using 20ga and 24ga sterling wire.
Then last night while I was waiting for my camera battery to charge to photograph it, I decided to try out a vague idea I had for another ring. Since it was vague, I stuck with my cheap gold coloured copper wire, also in 20 and 24 guage. I've studied photos of more complex wire rings many times, but never tried making one until now. Rather than try fiddling around to copy some other ring, I came up with my own idea. And I'm quite pleased with the results, seen in the left of the photo. Considering I had no idea how much wire I was going to need, I think it's pretty good I only had about 2 inches of excess of each guage of wire.
What makes this design different from many of the ones I've seen online is that I did not have to add extra wires to make the base for the stone to sit on, they are just an extension of the core wires (20ga) in the shank, of which there were 4, each one 8 inches long to start. Below you can see the underside of this ring, and another shot of my silver ring in which you can see a bit of the iridescence of the stone.
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