Sterling Silver Ring Workshop

What you get

You’ll end up making one Sterling Silver ring to fit whichever finger you wish to wear it on. If you prefer bring the size of a finger of a loved one and you can make a ring to that size. You can work the size out by bringing a ring they wear or just a piece of thin card that you’ve wrapped aroud the largest knuckle of the finger you wish to make the ring for.

Itinerary

The morning workshops begin at 10.00am, afternoon ones at 2.00pm, with tea or coffee and goodies and a brief chat and look through some work made by David. This is followed by a talk on texturing and finishing a demonstration of how to manipulate and texture sterling silver. You are then shown how to use various tools and finally solder your ring together and finish it in a variety of ways. Students begin by designing their ring and sizing their finger and are then given some sterling silver to work with.

The methods of working the silver includes forging using hammers and other tools such as teh rolling-mill. You’ll be annealing the metal with a blow-torch then cold-working the silver. The hot metal is quenched in Pickle (a diluted sulphuric acid) and then water after each annealing and then manipulated further towards the desired shape.

The morning workshops conclude at 1.30pm, the afternoon ones at 5.30pm, but if needs be extend through to when each student finishes their ring – and you get to go home wearing it on in the box to pop it into and present!