This step by step tutorial teaches through comprehensive illustrations and precise detail with easy to follow steps:
- - Solder lattice work
- - Making prong collets
- - Making shank
- This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
- - Metal : silver or gold or other
- - Round gemstones
This is a retro designed fiddlestick ring with gemstones set in four prong collets.
All the straight lines and 90° angles is an excellent discipline to practise accurate filing and careful soldering techniques. Setting method is briefly discussed in the tutorial.
Once the technique is mastered this design can be translated into a pendant or earrings. As an interesting effect many multi-coloured gems can be scattered on the fiddlestick lattice work.
The fiddlestick design has many variations and can be made into a pendant or earrings.
