Creating a large silver ring for women

Large silver rings are suitable for women who like impressive jewelry and clearly visible rings on the finger. These allow you to play on the quantity of silver and exploit the reflections of the shiny metal.

Silver can be easily shaped at a reasonable cost, and a single large ring can easily replace several thin rings worn on multiple fingers.

The making of This ring was custom made on behalf of our client

The design of the ring

Given the 3D shape of the large top plate of the ring, it took numerous email exchanges and tests in the workshop to clearly define the desired design and dimensions of the ring.

The ring is composed of a fairly large curved part as it is approximately 3 cm long and almost 3 mm thick and an adjustable ring which offers greater comfort for wearing it.

The design of the ring required us to create it using the lost wax technique, which we invite you to discover below in the images.

It should be noted that most of the large rings we offer in our store are made using this process.

Silver working

The lost wax technique was evident for this ring given the large volume and shape of the top plate, making it difficult to shape using classic rolled silver plate work.

Here in the image are the different phases of modeling and then casting the ring.

Wax modeling

The first step consists in cutting a sheet of wax in which we will manually sculpt the upper shape of the ring following the photos and sketches of the design. We do the same for the ring ring carved from a piece of wax that already has the shape of a ring.

View of the two wax pieces manually cut from the mass and assembled below.

View of the ring model made in wax before the lost wax casting phase

Creation of the refractory plaster mould

Once these two pieces are finished, they are brought together on the same base to create a master which will be used to make the refractory plaster mold into which the molten silver will be poured.

We then pour the refractory plaster into a container containing our master, as it solidifies, the plaster thus takes the shape of sculpted wax.

Once the plaster is dry and solidified, the base of the master is demoulded, the wax parts remaining trapped in the plaster.

The conical shape obtained will help pour the liquid plaster into the mold. The wax parts are evacuated by heating the mold until the wax is converted into liquid, which then flows out of the mold by gravity.

View of the plaster mold once solidified

Melt and then pour the silver

Once the plaster mold is finalized, the liquid silver can be poured into it. To do this, the mold is placed in a centrifuge and then the 925 silver is melted with a torch in a chamber connected to the mold inlet.

Starting the centrifuge then allows the liquid silver to flow into all the free spaces of the plaster mold.

We then recover our solid silver pieces by destroying the mold. All that remains is to deburr and polish them, then solder the plate onto the crown of the ring. We then proceed with finishing and polishing.

Finishes

Our two pieces of silver obtained are then deburred, touched up with a file then soldered together until the ring is carefully polished to obtain the final result.

More examples of large silver rings

Here are some other models of large silver rings for women made in our workshop:

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