I’m going to make this a short one and not a 1000 word blog. 3-1 kind of weekend? It’s a play on words title I chose. It’s referencing my beloved San Francisco 49ers record into a young season. Niner fans have been suffering for about 10 years and milking it ‘while it lasts’ is one thing that I will be doing. I’m also going to share with my readers 3 various jobs that I’ve done. Hell, I’ll just include a YouTube video showing you a process of this coral job I did.
So I get this order for this red coral job that I needed to supply into a tear drop shape with grooves cut into them. You may remember a blog I wrote on this Turquoise job I did called ‘Turquoise Grooves‘ which explained the whole process.
I mapped out how and where I’d like my grooves to be cut on this calcium induced piece of red coral using a small disk drill bit.
As you can see, this is the process of mapping out lines into the tear drop coral.
Here’s that video I promised showing you the process.
You may notice that I cut the lines deep so I have room to make the grooves.
Here’s the finished product. I filed the grooves in and used various custom made drill bits to give it that rounded look between each groove.
I finished it off with a 1mm hole so that some sort of post would sit into the drilled area.
So I get this David Yurman two toned ring in that needed a new Moonstone cut into it.
I supplied a nice cushion cut cabochon Moonstone to sit into the bezel.
The stone should sit perfectly inside and I recommended to my customer to glue it in and to do a light hammer on the walls of the bezel to give it that extra secure fit into the mounting.
And finally, I machine cut, to the millimeter, diamond shape cut blue sapphires that I supplied into this white gold ring.
As you can see, they go from large, medium, to small.
The blue sapphires sit perfectly into the desired area and some how, I kept this blog from reaching 400 words which is a new record for me. Hopefully, I’ll have another blog out and running by the end of this Friday. Till next time…
sako
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Thank you. Hope you enjoy reading my blogs. It’s out of the norm for Ganoksin.com but hopefully my message gets across.
Love the last piece!