Over the coarse of 6 days we learned how to build a 3 stone ring out of sheet and wire sterling silver. We built the heads out of two pieces of sheet metal.
Here is a back view.
Now we’ve added the prongs to the head.
We created a shank out of wire and cut two throats in it to match the galleries.
Here is the ring after I soldered on the shank and cleaned it up some.
Another view of the ring. It’s amazing that we could make this. We made this ring at the New Approach School for Jewelers. You may ask why not buy the heads and shank and save yourself the time. But in some cases you’ll have a larger middle stone or a stone that is a different shape and you’ll have to custom make a ring. It’s great to know how to build this, it helps me look at jewelry and figure out how to make it brick by brick.
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Our instructor, Blaine Lewis, said that he can make this ring in 10 to 12 hours. It took us 6 days becuase it was our first time and that included a lot of demos.
Cool!
It took 6 days? We have worked on gems for longer than that but it makes profitability tricky at times.