Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Concertina ring



The design of this ring was inspired by the cousitina music instrument,the material that I used is silver and titanium .
The concertina motion was the most interesting one up to so far, on this motion I have able to make couple of piece and of which I think all of them they shown the best of me, I started with a lot of prototypes together with Rhino (CAD) designs in order to solve the manufacturing problems before I get into a bench but unfortunately I haven’t be able to find a way to cutter it on the CNC machine because the CNC that I am currently using can not cut the under cuts.
The prototype that I started with was on paper cuts and then transforms it into metal it worked out fine; I also made the final one in platinum for the competition. The inspiration behind this idea of a concertina motion comes from a musical instrument and old camera the ones that were made out of leather. The big challenge about this idea is to make that concertina into a small scale of a piece of jewellery.

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