Porcelain and Bronze Make Jewelry

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I’ve been fooling around with colored porcelain components for a while, and usually make them into pendants or earrings.   Here’s my first ring which might not be a practical application, but it was fun to try.  The metal is bronze, my current favorite.

diagramI decided to go with a prong setting in bronze.    The basic diagram (not to scale) is above.  I cut a piece of wire, soldered it closed with hard solder and shaped it with a round mandrel. Then  I laid out the prongs in the 2, 4, 8, and 10 O’clock positions and soldered them on with hard solder.  (The red dotted line is an estimate of the size of my ceramic focal  so I could be sure that I cut the prongs long enough.)    Then I cut, shaped and filed the shank and soldered it on with  medium  solder.   Here’s a tutorial that shows something similar to what I did.

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I cleaned up the ring and bent the prongs around the focal so I could measure where to cut them before balling them with a torch,

 

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I didn’t use easy solder on the ring because I didn’t want to detach a prong when I balled it.
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Shaping the prongs around the focal and making sure it is centered on the ring
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I tapped the prongs very lightly with a hammer to tighten them.
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View from underneath
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Definitely not a ring for everyday wear!

I now have a small kiln that fires to cone 6, so I expect to be making more ceramic components in the future.