Advice on how to make these beautiful earrings :)

Hello all,

My friend’s birthday is coming up and for ages she has had an obsession with these tourmaline earrings. I was in the process of ordering a pair, when it occurred to me that I could attempt to make it myself.. it looks simple enough.. well so I hope. Can someone tell me how I would go about soldering the joints? Do I create the bezel then force the stone through and somehow push the bezel around the crystal as you would when setting a stone or do you solder while the crystal is in place? I intend on using silver for this project.

As always any help and advice would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
Sofina

I suspect you'd find they are just glued in place.

Yup, reasonable fit of metal and glue to keep stone in place :)

A similar question cropped up quite recently here. http://www.cooksongold.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7754

When glueing a band onto a crystal, there is every chance of a messy result, so I would confine my glue to a hole and a pin. In this case using a glued in ear post going a few mm into the crystal. Dennis.

Personal taste I know, but I hate those kind of settings where the bezel / strap / call it what you like is glued. Looks pretty enough I suppose, but its a bit of a botch job I think.

Nick

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Originally Posted by Nick martin

Personal taste I know, but I hate those kind of settings where the bezel / strap / call it what you like is glued. Looks pretty enough I suppose, but its a bit of a botch job I think.

Nick

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Hehe, glad to see I'm not the only one. It would feel very naughty using glue, I'd be interested to see if someone can make something similar without using it. A new show & tell thread maybe? =D

I don't see the point of the setting either, it covers a large part of the stone rather than enhancing it in any way.
However if thats what carters friend likes then thats what she likes :)

This could be done using skills rather then cements.

With regard to using glue, I feel like I'm chewing a brick when I read this thread. I might just have to spit it out... my advice:

Don't

There ... said it.

with crystals or uncut stones, I usually use that toothed gallery strip to make a cap. Still not a beautiful solution, but holds it. For earrings, hmm those earrings look weeny...
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