We’ve all done it, right? Not paying attention while setting a stone. Pushing too hard with the bezel setter, I slipped and totally scratched the surface of the cab I was working on.
With this one, there was NO saving it. The scratch is HUGE. And yes, there were some rather choice expletives let loose. I’ll not share those with you today. 
Truth is, scratching the cab wasn’t a total loss. The bezel was too tall for the cab in the first place, and I’d never have sold this little ring. And this was the first time I’d successfully finished a version using three silver wires as bands without melting at least one of them too.
I decided to complete smoothing out the bezel before tossing the ring aside. It gave me some good practice smoothing out the little dents made by the setter.
Oh, I’ll take it apart and reuse the silver. But it was a good exercise to go ahead and finish it out before disassembling it.
What do you do with your ‘oops’?
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Aww…poor stone
But looking at it as good practice for stuff is always a plus.
What do I do with flubs? I try to do the same…practice skills…or I wind up “fixing” and reworking until it is something else…even if it’s scavenging bits & pieces like you did with the silver. And with the flubs that are not too too bad, but too far for even an “oops” sale…I just use it myself or give it to the school for the kid’s playtime/dress up area.
Yes – the oops happens to all of us. I work in three mediums, glass, resin and paint on canvas. The paint on canvas is easy – the mistakes are easily fixed – or changed into something different and interesting. You can recycle glass – so that is also an easy fix. Resin however, if there are bubbles or dust in it when it is cured – nothing you can do. Until about a week ago I was throwing them away or giving them to my daughter to play with. Then I decided that it would be better to turn the ones that were not too badly messed up into cheap little magnets. I make sure that I list them as imperfect – with bubbles, dust and scratches so that people know they are not getting perfection. I sell them for $.75 each – I think that is fair.
I guess each mistake is a teacher. Your work is beautiful -
Rhiannon