[Jewelry making - Article 00792] - [Orchid] Invisible seam on bi-metal ring

[Jessica Halgren]

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    Hello out there! I'm hoping that someone can help me figure this one
    out. How does one make an invisible seam on a ring shank if the shank
    is comprised of two different metals? The ring in question consists of
    flat 1x2mm white gold wire and flat 1x5mm green gold wire sweat
    soldered right next to each other onto a piece of 24g white gold,
    then formed into a ring. Now normally when soldering a thick shank
    I'll simply flood the seam with solder, but since I plan to use white
    gold solder (hard of course!) placed on the inside and flowed through
    to the outside, how do I avoid that slight white seam on the green
    gold portion of the outside of the ring? I assume it's just a
    given...the only thing I can think of would be to then flow a tiny
    bit of green gold solder on the green gold portion of the outside of
    the ring, which seems like a) a bit of a cheat and b) an easy way to
    mistakenly flow the green solder onto the white gold, even with
    anti-flux in the picture. 

    Ideas? 

    This is not only the first time I'll be working in gold (yikes!),
    but given that the ring(s) is also my (our) wedding ring(s) it's
    especially daunting, so any hand-holding would be much appreciated.
    :) 

-Jessica in glorious SF


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