Keep it simple but elegant with uncomplicated and cleanly shaped rings. If you like getting sculptural with your work, you can go in a number of directions. Clean cuts and a little sanding is about the most difficult aspect of a project like this so there’s hardly any excuse to not try it. If you want to try an all polymer ring in a quick and easy but fun form, roll out those clay sheets and try a stacked set like these ingenious mix-and-match rings by Florence Minne-Khou. I’m not sure what her approach is here but the take away here is that you can try your own preferred surface treatments to create a unique ring in a bezel blank. It can be layered or carved or hand-tooled or drilled. It doesn’t need to be a solid polymer cabochon. Here Janine Müller shows how creative you can get with a ring bezel. Let’s start with one of those ring blank ideas. So now that I have you thinking about rings, let’s take a look at some great polymer ring creations to further get your inspiration going. There are also adjustable ring blanks if you just need a base for attaching your polymer forms and elements onto. They’re fun little bits of adornment and you don’t even really need them to match your outfits!īut if you want to create and sell one-of-a-kind rings, choose an average ring size and keep the band thickness and style wide enough to either sand down to create a larger size or add a layer of clay to create a smaller size. And rings are easy items to sell especially at an inexpensive price point. This way you have those smaller inexpensive, impulse buy items to sell at your fair booth or online. Making a selection to show the style but then offering custom-made rings is one way around this but the other way is to just make simple rings that you can create a lot of and only in three or four popular sizes. The one downside about rings, especially if you are selling them, is that you will need different sizes. Alternately, you can free-form the ring by hand, cure it, and then carve it into the shape and size you need.
You can also simply create a block of clay that you punch a hole into for the finger to go through.
They come as bands with open channels that you can put canes and veneers in, or with a blank bezel for cabochons or sculptural elements. You can wrap clay onto a form such as small glass bottles, sockets (for socket wrenches), and short bits of metal pipe (try pipe connectors.) You can skip the ring construction and just apply polymer to a metal ring blank. There are so many different types of polymer rings you can make. Maybe it’s a durability question – will the polymer ring stand up to the knocking and scraping rings have to go through? I’m not sure how they would fare if worn day in and day out but I, myself, have several polymer rings which still look as good today as the day I made them and the unusual and fantastic things you can do with polymer make them a really eye-catching piece of adornment that you’ll get lots of questions about an attention for. Have you ever made a polymer ring? It’s not one of the most popular jewelry forms in the medium which seems a little strange because they’re fairly easy to make.
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