Rings Rings Rings

Pierced ring and Multi-part rings

I have had a bit of a ring making frenzy and made a couple of rings the first is a multipart ring with twisted wires and two half round wires, the second is a pierced multipart, the piercing is done in the round as it doesn't work (well not for me anyway) to pierce the flat plate and then bend into a ring.

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Spinner Ring


The third ring is a spinner ring is made from a basic tube which I textured with a ball hammer then a wire ring is fitted over the tube and finally I hammered the two ends of the tube with a doming tool to form an anticlastic shape that will hold the wire in place.

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Pierced ring

A colleague brought me a picture of a ring and asked me to make it up for her with matching earrings, again the ring is pierced in the round and not flat.

Multipart ring

The next item on the course was a Multipart ring, here I learnt to make a ring consisting of six (6) components, the lesson was to build on the flat plate turn it into a ring then make various types of wire , add all the components together and come out with a ring.


Firstly I had to design a ring using half round, flat and twisted wire and make it aesthetically pleasing.


To start with I had to make a flat ring - this was to be the inner shank to hold all the parts together and make the inside seamless, then I had to roll out the various wires and make more rings that would compose the outer part of the ring. 

This meant I now had six individual rings, the wire rings were slid in place on the shank and then the shank was hammered with a doming tool to jam all the rings in place and finish off the edge of the ring.

Doming tools

Completed Multipart ring