Make a ring from a quarter
In the video above, from Rio Grande, they’re not using a coin, but are showing the process of creating a washer shape and making it into a ring.
If you prefer non-video ways of learning, here are three tutorials for you:
A series of photos showing the process of taking a quarter and turning it into a ring:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=283073.0
Here’s one with a half dollar, it’s also a longer and more detailed post:
http://www.frogsongstudio.com/coinringtut.html
And one more, in this one, they take away the words on the quarter:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-silver-ring-for-25-cents
It occurs to me the same method could be used with metal clay, to make a seamless ring. Has anyone tried that?
3 comments Elaine | Free Tutorials and Videos, Techniques
Hey, Elaine, of course. This is very close to my seamless ring technique in metal clay. It’s the technique I’ve been teaching here for a few years now for making sturdy rings (but I don’t use a quarter ;o) ).
I’ll be covering it at the MCWC Conference in 2011 too.
Great video.
o:-)
I don’t know how I missed that you’ve been doing that! Thanks for the comment!
I would like to exchange links with your site www.creativetexturetools.com
Is this possible?