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[MuranoSilver]

Thanks Dennis!
Now I have to buy a collet block lol
Beautiful pieces (as always) have you a pic with that last stone set?
Looks gorgeous
Nic x

[Inanegal]

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for the excellent tutorial and great photos.

I especially like your 'Cone Shaped Collet' design. May I ask if you have any tips for shaping the bottom of the collet where it joins the ring shank? I always find this very difficult and wonder whether there are any clever ways of doing it...

Best wishes

Nina

[Dennis]

Thank you Nic, nice to have you back here. I knocked the ring up on Sunday morning just for this thread, and then found my CZ selection a bit low, so I'll get a bigger stone today and post the result.

Hi Nina, it is a perennial problem to fit any collet to a shank. Briefly the answer is to use a round file with the same diameter as the shank. For shanks made of flat strip the curve goes the other way and having filed the shape roughly, I wrap abrasive paper around a mandrel until it ends up the right size and use that.

Kind regards to both, Dennis.

[Inanegal]

Thanks for the advice, Dennis.

Nina

[caroleallen]

Lovely work as usual Dennis. Good to see you back Nic. I've been wondering where you were.

[lorraineflee]

Lovely work as usual Dennis. Good to see you back Nic. I've been wondering where you were.

What she said!!!

Lorraine

[jille]

Dennis thanks for taking the time and trouble to write this, it's invaluable to a beginner like me

[ps_bond]

I knocked the ring up on Sunday morning just for this thread...

Thank you Dennis - your method is far more efficient than mine of "meaning to get around to photographing..."