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How to Make a Solitaire Marquise Ring

Making a Marquise Solitaire Ring Tutorial  - US$25

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How to make a Solitaire Marquise Ring

This tutorial will teach you in precise detail and easy to follow steps and shows you:

  • - Making a marquise collet
  • - Making the end prongs
  • - Forging knife edge shank and soldering 
  • This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
  •  - Metal : silver or gold or other
  •  - Marquise gemstone

You will receive :

  • -- 33 Pictures and illustrations
  • -- 16 Pages of detailed instructions
  • -- Bench tips on tools and techniques
make marquise collet
Making marquise collet
making ring shank
Making ring shank

This is a classical marquise solitaire ring to make, with particular focus on the collet making for the times when you're dealing with a non-standardized size of a high-end marquise gemstone. The collet is then soldered into a knife edge shank. Setting a marquise gemstone does not fall within the scope of this tutorial.

A classical solitaire marquise engagement ring

Classical marquise diamond engagement ring

Suggested Follow-up Projects

or select other jewelry making projects from Jewelry Making Class List

Recommended Tool Tips / Videos for this project

This video demonstrated the Rolling of a Knife Edge Shank 

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