This step by step tutorial teaches through comprehensive illustrations and precise detail with easy to follow steps:
- - Making square collet
- - Shaping the shank
- - Prong Setting Method
- This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
- - Metal : silver or gold or other
- - 6mm square gemstone
This step by step jewelry tutorial will show you how to make this striking angular solitaire ring with a princess cut gemstone set in a square pronged collet. Firstly a center collet is made with the gallery filed out and the prongs soldered on the gallery. Then the shank is shaped and the square collet soldered in . The setting method is briefly discussed.
The shank filed into a softer half round shape.