Sterling silver screws
When I was small my father built airplanes for Boeing and my mother made clothes for Penmans. They always brought home little scraps of things from their factories - metal bits, bits of lace - first by accident, and then on purpose after I begged them. Like most kids I liked trash better than toys; greasy nuts and bolts would often hang delicately around my neck secured by a length of underwear elastic, steel tubing with sequins glued on became rings. I kept all these tiny, useless things in an aluminum cash box. My current inability to turn away from junk drawers and cluttered storefronts - especially hardware and fabric stores - is obviously an extension of this childhood game of turning the crap I found in my parents' work aprons into jewellery that I so desperately wanted but was too young to have.
Now that I actually know what I'm doing (for the most part, anyway), I thought I'd give it another shot. At Home Depot last summer I found some absurdly long screws that I thought would make cool rings. I bought two different kinds - a Robertson screw and some other dinky one - and cast them in silver. They weren't hard to turn into rings, just had to heat them up and then hammer them into shape. Cast that shit, light that shit, bang it!
1 comment:
Oh, how I love my ring! I bought the 8 1/2 from you at City of Craft. Thank you for helping me choose, it's an awesome ring! :)
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