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R-A-D #72 4/19/10 Crown Setting
6-prong crown setting rings. The parameters:
*copper band - no more than 1/2"wide (not sure what that is in centimeters)
*textured
*6-prong crown setting
*faceted stone - blue
*liver of sulpher
However you want to interpret this into a ring, can be technical, can be purely conceptual in some form.
So my stone is green, but if you mix blue with yellow you get green, so I'm sure that there is some blue in there somewhere.
Crown setting -- I don't know if difficult is the right word, but stressful is definitely in the running. Trying to get 6 equal prongs kept my brain and my compass busy for awhile. And sawing was interesting. So after all the figuring and sawing I had to solder it on and hope I didn't melt it or something.
The stone is a green spinel, more than I really wanted to spend for a stone in a ring I have never made before, but when I was at the rock shop searching for the perfect uncut stone, and I couldn't find one, this one just jumped into the setting and fit perfectly! It's mystical qualities are that it "refreshes the emotional, increasing compassion, love, forgiveness, self-esteem and the relaxed and easy affection for others."
The writing on the band is from "Lost Goddesses of Early Greece A collection of pre-Hellenic Myths" by Charlene Spretnak.
The part I used is from the myth of Athena and reads:
"...Long before there were palaces, the Goddess had appeared to a group of women gathering plants in a field. She broke open the stems of blue-flowered flax and showed them how the threadlike fibers could be spun and then woven. The woof and warp danced in Her fingers until a length of cloth was born before them. She told them which plants and roots would color the cloth, and then She led the mortal from the field to a pit of clay..."
Would I make another crown setting? Yes
Should we do this ring formula thing again? Definitely
Does someone have an idea for parameters for the next one?
R-A-D #72 4/19/10 Crown Setting
6-prong crown setting rings. The parameters:
*copper band - no more than 1/2"wide (not sure what that is in centimeters)
*textured
*6-prong crown setting
*faceted stone - blue
*liver of sulpher
However you want to interpret this into a ring, can be technical, can be purely conceptual in some form.
So my stone is green, but if you mix blue with yellow you get green, so I'm sure that there is some blue in there somewhere.
Crown setting -- I don't know if difficult is the right word, but stressful is definitely in the running. Trying to get 6 equal prongs kept my brain and my compass busy for awhile. And sawing was interesting. So after all the figuring and sawing I had to solder it on and hope I didn't melt it or something.
The stone is a green spinel, more than I really wanted to spend for a stone in a ring I have never made before, but when I was at the rock shop searching for the perfect uncut stone, and I couldn't find one, this one just jumped into the setting and fit perfectly! It's mystical qualities are that it "refreshes the emotional, increasing compassion, love, forgiveness, self-esteem and the relaxed and easy affection for others."
The writing on the band is from "Lost Goddesses of Early Greece A collection of pre-Hellenic Myths" by Charlene Spretnak.
The part I used is from the myth of Athena and reads:
"...Long before there were palaces, the Goddess had appeared to a group of women gathering plants in a field. She broke open the stems of blue-flowered flax and showed them how the threadlike fibers could be spun and then woven. The woof and warp danced in Her fingers until a length of cloth was born before them. She told them which plants and roots would color the cloth, and then She led the mortal from the field to a pit of clay..."
Would I make another crown setting? Yes
Should we do this ring formula thing again? Definitely
Does someone have an idea for parameters for the next one?