Update: Rings!

So my rings finally came out of the centrifuge, cooled, and covered in plaster. They were chalky, and rough, with little spheres of silver left where tiny bubbles had formed. One of the rings I had designed and carved a few weeks ago while the other I had made the year before as my version of a graduation ring. I had waited over a year to cast it and was hoping that it would come out the same way I had imagined so long ago.

The design was the same as well as the size, however; the rings were both entirely too large around the sides to make the rings look proportional to my fingers. This would end up being a bigger problem than I had thought. I had to shave down both rings a substantial amount. And at this point, they were already cast in silver so filing down the sides was tedious, to say the least, seeing as I had nearly a fourth of an inch to file off at some points and only a shimmer of silver falling off at the most industrious peaks of my labors. Because I had to file off so much, the design I had originally carved on the surface of the ring was slowly being diminished, I had to use a file to carve in my design back into the silver. It didn't help that I was wasting precious silver.

In the end, after about two weeks of cramped hands and dull files, I finally had the rings I wanted. I just had to do some sanding first....