Making a lapiz cab ring

[Goldsmith]

I am not sure if I have posted this before, so apologies if you have seen it. This was a simple bezel set ring that I made for my daughter and I took photos along the making process for a book I am writing and I thought that some learners might find them useful.

Here are the first 5 showing the first stages of preparing and soldering.

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Here are the next 5 photos;

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And the next 5.

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Finally finished;



James

[BarryM]

I am just a hobby jeweller but between picture 13 and 14 you have reshaped the ring from a rectangular cross section to D shaped. Is there any reason that you did this after soldering to the cab setting rather than before? As a beginner I would have done it before - it being much easier (at least it would seem to me) to work the ring without the setting attached.

Nice job - looks really good.

[Goldsmith]

I am just a hobby jeweller but between picture 13 and 14 you have reshaped the ring from a rectangular cross section to D shaped. Is there any reason that you did this after soldering to the cab setting rather than before? As a beginner I would have done it before - it being much easier (at least it would seem to me) to work the ring without the setting attached.

Nice job - looks really good.

Barry, On silver rings I always make the ring shank slightly smaller than required and after I soldered the ring shank to the setting, I hammered the ring shank section on a ring mandrel to harden it and enlarge it to the required ring size. Then I filed the shank to the D shape before setting the stone in place and polishing.

James

[BarryM]

Thanks, that is a really useful bit of experience passed on.


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[Aurarius]

I am not sure if I have posted this before, so apologies if you have seen it. This was a simple bezel set ring that I made for my daughter and I took photos along the making process for a book I am writing and I thought that some learners might find them useful.

It's good to see this. Could you tell us which grades of solder you would use for each part of the job? I'm assuming hard for the bezel wall and to close the ring shank? What would you use for soldering on the base and attaching the completed bezel to the ring?
Thanks. Mark.

[Goldsmith]

It's good to see this. Could you tell us which grades of solder you would use for each part of the job? I'm assuming hard for the bezel wall and to close the ring shank? What would you use for soldering on the base and attaching the completed bezel to the ring?
Thanks. Mark.

You are correct saying I used hard solder on the ring shank and oval bezel. I also used hard solder when adding the backplate to the bezel. I soldered the shank to the backplate with easy. I don't use medium solder.

James

[Patstone]

Once you soldered on the bezel to the bottom, did you pierce away the remains or snip it off. Also the top of the bezel near the stone as Mark said is a "D" shape, I thought it had to be more of a knife edge, could be thats where I am going wrong, my bezel edges after setting always look a bit chewed, could it be that I am filing it a bit too much because on the finished ring your bezel does look a bit thicker than mine. I make a lot of rings, its one of my favourite things to make so any info would be helpful. Let me know when your book comes out as I will top of the buyers list. Big fan !!!!