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Square Deco Design Ring Tutorial 

Square Marquise Art Deco Design Ring Tutorial - US$30

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Square Deco Design Ring Tutorial

This step by step tutorial teaches through comprehensive illustrations and  precise detail with easy to follow steps:

  • - Making prong marquise collet
  • - Piercing square shank
  • - Soldering square collets to shank
  • This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
  •  - Metal : silver or gold or other
  •  - 1 x Marquise 15mm x 6mm
  •  - 8 x 3mm Round gemstones

You will receive :

  • -- 78 Pictures and illustrations
  • -- 39 Pages of detailed instructions
  • -- Personalized tips on tools and techniques
Square Deco Design Ring Tutorial - Marquise Collet
Making marquise collet.
Square Deco Design Ring Tutorial - Saw shank shape
Sawing the ring shank. 

Shaped around the marquise gemstone set in a prong collet setting, is the square art deco style design.
Round gemstones are set in square collets to add balance to the deco design.

Working on precision filing and soldering is important to keep all the angles true. The bars on the shank are pierced out of plate. Binding wire secures the parts in the soldering process.
The prong setting method is briefly discussed.

Square Marquise Set Deco Design Ring

Marquise gemstone set in a square art deco ring design. 
 

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A tip on how to finish the inside of collets

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