Making the Notre Dame Ring

While my second silicon mould was setting, I went into jewellery and Malcolm suggested that I continue with my other ring design- the copper plate with the clear acrylic shape clipped over the top. So did that this evening.
Started by polishing a piece of copper on the mechanical polisher with the rouge. Found that I had to wear gloves for parts of it as the metal got extremely hot very quickly.

I then drew around my acrylic circle and added extra pieces where the copper was going to clip onto the circle.
After I had done this I used an extremely thin saw to gently cut through the copper plate.

 

When I had finished sawing all the edges, I filed down the piece of metal which was a very long process. I then had to re-polish it until both sides were finished.

 

After I had done this I then set about creating my rings to go underneath. I selected the right measurement for my two fingers and then wrapped a length of wire around the right selection on the ring pole. I then cut the wire at the top of the circle, and measured out how much copper wire I would need for both rings.

 

Then I used the blow torches to heat up the copper wires, making it more malleable and then left them in the 'pickle' for about 5 minutes to get them really pliable.

 

I then used wire cutters to gently roll up the wire, and some parallel cutters to ensure the two ends met without too much of a gap.

 

And voila! My two rings ready for soldering in the morning!