After draft #3 failed to produce geometric perfection, I went back to the drawing board. Literally.
I took a photo of the ring on Miranda’s finger and cut away everything but the ring, and then drew every brainstorm idea I could think of that was within the realm of what we were trying to do. #1 was my favourite — maintaining the essence of what our original design was, but ending up with 3 rings instead of 2. #6 is what Miranda chose. Back to carving!
A day later I had this rough draft. The plan was to show it to Miranda to ensure it was what she wanted, as we go.
Another day, and I had this “getting closer” draft.
Seen here in the casting frame. We took a “save point” at this point, as it was the closest I’d got to success so far!
While I was carving up a storm and praying, Russ was working on another idea. Since carving the relief of the ring into the wax was proving difficult/imperfect, he’d go the other way. He took Scuply and formed it around the existing ring. Then he cast that so he could carve away the unnecessary parts! It was an excellent idea, except that the casting material was miserable to carve, so while the ring impression was perfect, everything else was messy and frayed.
In the end, I decided to go with the wax I’d been carving, as I’d gotten it close enough to perfection to be what I wanted to run with. I took it home again to show m’lady, who approved, and now very soon we’ll be dealing with silver things again! YAY HOT THINGS! 😀
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