It was a full class -- they have room for eight --
This morning, all of the places were set up with mandrels, soldering irons, knives and other tools --
In the afternoon, we each had a flat piece of silver, a scalloped silver bezel piece and a silver beaded strip along with both soft and hard silver solder.
This is Jim, one of the instructors demonstrating in the afternoon --
This is today's work product. On the left are the two rings made in the morning by the lost wax method; on the right are the ones with stones made by silver-smithing.
Forry's ring on the left has a rope design while mine has entwined hearts --
It doesn't show up very well in the picture, but my ring on the left is a very pale translucent green with a dark spot in it while Forry's is more of a tiger-eye.
It was a long day today! It was the first day we have been out and about since we got those nasty colds. We had a hour break after the afternoon class and went across the freeway to McDonalds for some dinner before we had to go back this evening to watch the silver pour into our wax molds.
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