First of all, I must make a statement: this ring is an imitation, and the real one is in France now.
I'm going to make a ring, with one of the materials I haven't used before: Silver clay.
This ring is imitation, the replica of Jeanne d'Arc the French heroine's ring(Of course, I can't afford the real one, and I'm sure France won't let it go).
And step No.1:Painting design draft.
Yeah yeah yeah, I know we have lot photos of that ring on Google or Yahoo! and Baidu(Chinese search engine), we can use them.
But in here, I suggest that are interested in making jewelry or similar handicrafts guys: even if you just to copy one, please draw it, so you can deepen mastery of details, otherwise even if there are photos as reference, probably you can only have less than 60% similarity.
And meantime you can write down the steps you plan on your design draft.
Step No.2:Selection material.
Because it was trying new material, so in fact, I had no choice.
Silver clay is the Japanese invention, which I use is Chinese production, has the advantages of cheap, about disadvantages, because I have not tried “Made in Japan” and“Made in Taiwan”, so apart from the price, I can't compare them.
The silver content in silver clay,before the firing is 75%, and after firing is 92%, which means that you need to do more big， than you want to ring size .
Step No.3:Make rough blank.
Like painting and sculpture, you need to draw a draft（Make rough blank）, which is the framework that determines the size, detail, and structure of a work.
Since this is the production of a jewelry, so in the rough stage, I need to determine the size of the exact.
My index finger size is 10#（US），the inner diameter is 19.8 millimeters and the inner circumference is 62.1 millimeters.
Of course, it is still rough，in the future will also expand the diameter because grinding, so the current stage,so that is cool about the inner diameter is smaller than the finger size.
This is normally.But in this case, I have to make this ring more big, you know the reason.
......To be continued.
