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Apr. 25, 2014 | Posted in Reports, Jewelry Making | Tags: ,
Staff Blog≫ Ring with a grief

RING WITH A GRIEF
1. Measuring the right thickness of the silverplate for the grief.

RING WITH A GRIEF
2. Checking the plate is straight and marking where to saw it.

RING WITH A GRIEF
3. First I made a basic bezel and then hammered it conical with a bottoniera.

RING WITH A GRIEF
4. The bezel after filing it straight and cleaning the surface with an emerypaper.

RING WITH A GRIEF
5. The stone has to sit perfectly on the bezel. The stone is cubic zirconia.

RING WITH A GRIEF
6. Dividing the bezel for making the right crown like shape.

RING WITH A GRIEF
7. Marking the U shapes before cutting them.

RING WITH A GRIEF
8. After cutting the U shapes roughly with a saw, the next thing to do is to file the edges and cut little divisions also on the downside.

RING WITH A GRIEF
9. The grief ready to be soldered on the ring.

RING WITH A GRIEF
10. After making a normal ring from a thick silverwire without closing it by soldering, I hammered the open end flat on a tassello with a heavy iron hammer.

RING WITH A GRIEF
11. The ring and the grief before soldering them togheter.


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