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
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.
Marquise gemstone set in a square art deco ring design.