made a ring this morning-

[lane912]

[carambola]

very cool

[Arizona_928]

neat

[sc_rufctr]

Excellent!

[Rick V]

Where is the like button?

[lane912]

Originally Posted by Rick V

Where is the like button?

https://www.facebook.com/lane.weinberg/media_set?set=a.10202535070121168.1073741831.13281 97299&type=1

[targa911S]

wow !! Nice. and talented as well.

[Tobra]

Very nifty

[ckissick]

Is it like those ones forged in the fires of Mt. Doom?

[gshase]

Cool....What is the material?

[mikesride]

I like it.

[Nostril Cheese]

My father and stepmother did the very same thing for each other. Much more personal IMO.

Props on the skills.

[calimedeiros]

What do you plan on doing with this ring ? Is there a special lady in the picture

[lane912]

I used sterling silver stock 2mm square for this
it is a "sketch" for a wedding ring to be worn by my partner. next I will build another in 14K with a diamond-

I started making Jewelry when I was in High school. when I bought my house, I started putting a studio together and re honing my skills. I look at it as a retirement plan-

[look 171]

My father is a custom jeweler. We forced him into retirement (40 years was enough) since his lung cancer. He now fusses around in his lil' studio on the side of the garage making stuff for the grand kids and relatives. It keep his time occupied. He makes everything with hand tools only (with the exception of a hand drill, polisher and an ultra sonic cleaner) and there is a huge demand for that kind of work once the higher end shops discover you. there is no shortage of work because only a hand full of people are capable of this type of work. After his retirement, they were still beating down his doors for more. I used to work for him on and off for many years since I literally grew up sitting on his lap in front of the work bench. I love to see more of your work if you don't mind.

[lane912]

excited to be taking a Blacksmiths class starting next week at a little school down the street from my place.
Oaks Bottom Forge

[rusnak]

very cool!!!

[john70t]

As a curiosity, how easy/predictable is silver to work with?

[lane912]

Originally Posted by john70t

As a curiosity, how easy/predictable is silver to work with?

it is very easy to work and solder/wield though not like working with gold. Gold does not oxidize when it is heated, so you need little flux and it is the most ductile element on the planet.

silver can be rolled so thin that it transmits light-

11 Interesting Facts about Element 79
1. Gold is the most ductile of all metals, meaning it is the most suitable for drawing into wires. Amazingly, one ounce of gold can be drawn into a wire 1250 miles long (thickness 1 micron). This means that you could make a gold wire long enough to go around the earth with just 20 ounces of gold. Using metric units, one gram of gold could be drawn to a length of 66 km.

2. Gold is also the most malleable of all metals, meaning it can be beaten into thinner sheets than any other metal. Gold can be beaten without any special difficulty to a thickness of 0.1 micron. A stack of one thousand sheets of 0.1 micron gold leaf is the same thickness as a typical piece of printer paper.

3. Gold is one of the densest elements. A cube of gold with each side just 14.2 inches long would weigh a ton. (37.27 cm sides give a metric ton.) The six metals denser than gold are: osmium, iridium, platinum, rhenium, neptunium and plutonium.

4. The concentration of gold below Earth’s crust is about 100 times higher than the concentration in it.

5. ‘The acid test’ has become part of everyday speech. It means a test whose result is absolutely certain. The first acid test was a drop of nitric acid on metal. Gold does not dissolve in nitric acid, so if a metal reacts with nitric acid, it is certainly not gold. The ‘acid test’ became popular in the 1849 Californian gold rush, when all sorts of shady characters tried their hand at selling fake gold.

6. The total mass of gold ever extracted from Earth is 170 000 metric tons (at the beginning of 2012). This amount of gold would fill three and a half Olympic swimming pools. About 2500 metric tons of gold is now mined every year. Two-thirds of all the gold ever taken from the earth has been taken since 1950.

7. Want to get rich quick? Nobel prize winning chemist Fritz Haber did, but not for personal gain; Haber tried to help the German economy by extracting gold from seawater, but could not do it profitably.


8. As recently as the 1980s the oceans were thought to contain about 4 kg of gold for every cubic kilometer of water – that’s almost 1 kg or 2 lb of gold each for everyone on Earth today. Estimates of ocean gold keep falling, however, and it now seems likely that each cubic kilometer of ocean contains just 30 grams of gold (Nozaki, 1992). That’s 1 ounce of gold in every 264 billion gallons of water.

If you could process seawater equal in volume to draining Lake Ontario, you would capture 48 kg of gold, worth less than $3 million at today’s gold price. You cannot put that amount of water – 1600 cubic kilometers – through any chemical extraction process for $3 million. But perhaps you have an idea?
the gold leaf experiment


9. In the world-changing Gold Foil Experiment, Ernest Rutherford and his coworkers Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden fired alpha particles at gold leaf. The experiment found that alpha particles were deflected as they passed through the gold more than they ought to have been if the gold atoms were made of smoothly spread matter.

The gold leaf used in the experiment had been pressed to about 0.6 micrometers thick – that’s a thickness of about 2000 gold atoms. By 1911 Rutherford had concluded that atoms consist of a tiny, dense point of positive charge surrounded mostly by empty space in which negatively charged electrons are present.

10. Approximately 75 percent of the world’s gold ends up in jewelry.

11. In the fourth century BC the Greek mathematician and philosopher Plato wrote: “all the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

[john70t]

#11 sounds about right.