Sterling and fire agate ring

Sterling and Fire Agate Ring

It is a really good stone, it is hard to get photos that show the colors as they seem to move around in the light.

Fire Agate Pendant with Chased Setting

Fire Agate Pendant with Chased Setting

Front View

Back View

I bought this exceedingly good Fire Agate on ebay:

That is an actual picture I took.... wild stone.  I probably should have cleaned the stone first, those specks aren't chips but lint.

So I set about trying to figure out what to do with an abnormally shaped stone with just strong uhmm...  power(?).

I decided to make a pendant with citrines, to complement the stone, and attempt to re-create the stone in sterling on the back of the setting.

So, first some chasing:

That seems about right.

Now a setting:

Little More Better

The chasing is all the way through the metal, so it shows from the inside.  I had to figure out how to keep the base fairly level and still have a lot of depth on the outside.

Now add (set) some citrines:

This was a super fun and fairly successful project.  It probably took about 30 hours, believe it or not.

A few more photos:

my wife goofing off at the art show

Fire Agate and Sterling Ring

This is a fairly simple sterling Ring.

It is a fire agate from Slaughter Mountain.  

I kind of like the offset, and the band is doubled, but with two different gauges.
There seems to be something about setting stones to sort of look like eyes.  Sort of how a car's headlights look like eyes.  Something subconscious.

I didn't get any construction pictures, other than these when I was goofing off.

 

This close up gives the basic construction:

more pictures including the back:

This is more work and effort than usually go into a sterling ring.  The shank disappears into the back and there is an exposed ring around the outside.