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Gallery wire is a pretty strip of patterned precious metal wire. Metalsmiths use gallery wire as bezels. But some, like this previously featured designer, also use them to make delicate rings! It is not hard to do if you know how to solder. Metalsmith ...

How to Make Gallery Wire Ring Tutorials  More Recent Articles How to Make Gallery Wire Ring Tutorials Gallery wire is a pretty strip of patterned precious metal wire. Metalsmiths use gallery wire as bezels. But some, like this previously featured designer, also use them to make delicate rings!  It is not hard to do if you know how to solder. Metalsmith Soham Harrison shared his basic gallery ring tutorial. He covers the basic soldering, pickling, sizing and work hardening of the ring.   Gallery wire is very delicate. Soham has an alternative tutorial where he overlaid the gallery wire on a narrow strip of sterling silver. This resulted in a more substantial ring. Twice the work as he had to make 2 rings.  Precision measurement and adjustments are required to make sure the gallery wire ring sits just right over the metal band. He had previously embossed a pattern on one side of the metal band thus making the inside of the ring distinctive.   Note : Gallery wire comes in different widths. Before You Go: Book Review : Soldering Made Easy Clever Polymer Clay Ring Tutorial A Collection of 5 Wire Wrapped Ring Tutorials ______________________________ Original Post by THE BEADING GEM Jewelry Making Tips - Wire JewelryTips  -Jewelry Business Tips           Share Your Comment! Share Your Comment! Related Posts How to Fuse and Recycle Your Copper Scraps! Two Beaded Crystal Briolette Earrings Tutorials Wire Wrapped Cabochon Ring Tutorial   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •   More Recent Articles Easy Texture and Paint Polymer Clay Bead Tutorial Wire Wrapped Cabochon Ring Tutorial Amazing Elephant Polymer Clay Jewelry by Kni Kni Winner of Helen Breil's Magnetic Pendant Polymer Clay Class Giveaway Easy Photo Resin Jewelry Tutorial Cinderella Slipper and Pumpkin Coach Wire Wrapped Pendant Tutorials Easy Beaded Pearl Choker Tutorial     Contact Me •Past Issues •Join This List •Unsubscribe     Click here to safely unsubscribe from "The Beading Gem's Journal." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.