Commission: River Ring in Silver & Topaz
Last week I finished off this Eternity Ring, a commission inspired by the Braided River ring that I made a couple of months ago. It’s a silver wedding anniversary gift and is designed to sit alongside an existing topaz engagement ring.
It needed to have a slightly simpler feel to it than the original ring so I did a few sketches and we eventually settled on just the two ‘waves’ but added a more obvious line of stones – to evoke the feel of a traditional Eternity Ring.
Putting it together required some tricky soldering to line up and fix the settings (which sit in a wave, not easy to mark out):
and then to add the wires which made up the wave outlines:
After a couple of tense moments under the flame I polished it up to a glossy shine and set it with a single sky blue topaz and four clear, white topaz.
The final result looks pretty special:
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