Some lucky year 9 students recently visited the Glamorous Owl jewellery making studio in Newcastle for a fabulous ring making workshop. In just under 2 hours, they had all created their own beautiful silver rings. Students worked with a range of silver smithing hand tools and were taught how to file their silver and shape it round a mandrel before using the blow torch to solder a perfect seamless join. After the rings had been cleaned in jewellers' pickle (an acid bath!), students set about filing them with different grades of sandpaper. Next came the decorative finish - using different shaped hammers to apply various surface textures so that they could personalise their own ring.
The results were absolutely stunning, students finished off by polishing their rings to make them super shiny. The workshops were most enjoyable, and a lovely pre-Christmas treat; thank you Glamorous Owl!