Asymmetrical fused silver ring with a ruby.

This ring was formed by fusing a 10 gauge silver wire ring at about a ring size of 8. Then I built of the table of the ring with additional pieces of 14 gauge silver. After fusing, I shaped the ring with a hammer and mandril to expand the ring diameter to size 11. I then trimmed the table with a dremel and drilled the gem setting. After running the ring through a steel-shot tumbler, I polished it and set the gem with some jewelers resin.

Fine silver fused ring with inset ruby.

WOW! I totally learned how to set a gem in the rings I have been fusing out of silver. This is actually a ring that I made a few weeks ago from two pieces of 10 gauge silver formed in to rings and then fuzed together. I hammered and polished this ring a wore it for a week until I got the courage to drill a setting and place a ruby in it. I got my gems from a PMC supply house and I selected them for thier colorfastness during firing... Ironically, my original plan involved soldering a bezel wire to this band and then crimping in the gem... Instead, I ended up affixing the gem with jewelers resin.