This tutorial comes with easy to follow instructions and detailed illustrations which shows you:
- - Making tapered bezel
- - Dome bottom plate
- - Soldering prongs and polishing
- This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
- - Metal : silver or gold or other
Often gemstones are cut to less than perfect proportions.
In many cases, stones are cut for weight and the correct angles for the pavilion are discarded.
This causes the stone to have a 'window' in the center where light simply passes through the stone, instead of being reflected back to the viewer.
Using a collet with a built in reflector, the window effect is somewhat lessened, giving the stone a more pleasing look.
The reflector collet improves the window in the gemstone.
