Advice on how to make these beautiful earrings :)

[cartres]

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

[ps_bond]

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

[Tabby66]

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

[Dennis]

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.

[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

[Keia]

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

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