8. After it is soldered together, this is the tricky part. To help your seam (which you will solder soon) become less noticeable, you want the twisted wire to match where they meet. This will require you to use the hand saw to remove extra twisted wire at the perfect spot so that it looks like the twisted wire never ends. If you look closely at the photo, notice were the purple point of the paper is pointing to. This is the solder joint. You can see how hard it is to see because the wire seems to continue in its twisting, when actually this is where it was cut.
How to Make a Twisted Wire Ring
By Tammy Powley, About.com Guide
7. Use hard solder to solder the 3 pieces together. The number of soldering joints will vary with the size of your ring. However, you’ll need enough to securely solder the 2 pieces of square wire to the top and bottom of the twisted wire.
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