Concept to reality
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The plate, and the ring that came out of it.
An Instrument, Worn
Most rings that reference music reference it. This one contains it. The string running down the centre of the channel came off a guitar, and it is set into guitar wood, next to deer antler, inside a band of black damascus.
Four materials, none of them chosen to look like anything other than what they are.
From idea to finished piece
Drawn first, then made.
Four materials
Nothing in it is decoration.
Black Damascus
The band
Folded steel, etched so the layers read light against dark. At 8mm it is the widest part of the ring and everything else sits inside it.
Deer Antler
The pale edge
Antler runs the full circumference beside the wood. It is the lightest thing in the ring, and it is what stops the band reading as all steel and shadow.
Guitar Wood
The body
Wood from a guitar, set into the channel beside the antler. The grain is left to do what it does; nothing about it is corrected.
Guitar String
The reason
A real string, its winding still visible, laid into the wood and finished flush. Run a thumb across it and you can feel the coil.
Yours
Bring me the thing it has to contain.
A string, a piece of an instrument, something off a workbench. If it can be set into a channel and survive being worn, it can go in a ring.
