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Square Halo Ring Making

Making a Halo Ring with a Square Gemstone  - US$30

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Square Halo Ring Making

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

  • - Piercing halo plate
  • - Making square collet
  • - Soldering split shank
  • This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
  •  - Metal : silver or gold or other
  •  - 1 x 6mm square gemstone
  •  - 4 x 2mm round gemstone
  •  - 12 x 1.5mm round gemstone

You will receive :

  • -- 56 Pictures and illustrations
  • -- 28 Pages of detailed instructions
  • -- Bench tips on tools and techniques
Square Halo Ring Making - Measurement of gem corners
Measure corners of square gemstone. 
Square Halo Ring Making - Thrumming collet to polish
Polishing the collet using thrumming technique.

This square halo ring has a split shank in which 4 gemstones are set in the shank prongs.
The halo plate is shaped around the square collet, which is soldered to the shank.

The shank is pierced out from a plate to ensure even prongs. A template is provided in the Free tutorials to set the gemstones are available on the Setting Gemstones Instruction Page.

Square Halo Ring Making

Square halo ring with gems set in shank prongs.

Suggested Follow-up Projects

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or select other jewelry making projects from Jewelry Making Class List

Recommended Tool Tips / Videos for this project

This free tutorial shows how to make the Basic Prong Setting used in this project.

Video on polishing difficult to reach areas inside a collet called  Thrumming

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