That’s right…..I have been here for a year as of yesterday! It feels like no time at all has past. I guess staying this busy at school helps with making the time pass relatively quickly.
I started working on a ring for my friend Sharra. Bill and Glenn have been on me for a while to do some scroll work that I drew myself and then pierce and cut it out. So I am incorporating that into the design. She wants 4 of her favorite runes engraved on it and a spessartite set. I spent the morning drawing and re-drawing and re-re-drawing some scrollwork for the concept. I spent the afternoon actually engraving it. Since it is less detailed than the bracelet I just worked on, it took substantially less time. This is going to be difficult enough to cut and pierce. I think I have enough room for a second ring off the same ingot that I poured today. I will say that I am thankful that I decided to buy that silver bowl off of John so long ago. I am still using pieces of silver from that bowl. I imagine I probably have another 2 or 3 troy ounces to do something with. I also have some of that silver ring stock left too.
Tomorrow, I will start cutting and piercing the scroll work on Sharra’s ring. I am not sure if the first try is going to be good enough, but if not, I can just do it again (and hopefully not make the same mistakes I might be making now….).
Bill also purchased 19 Kruggerands from some guy today, which is 25,000 dollars worth of gold. I took a couple of pictures of one of those too…..