Me and my brother teamed up on this one and this is our second attempt but we plan on getting better too. When you don't have matching stones to do a piece like this then it is way harder to make, so you really need to have the stones chosen and set on putty along with sketchings and drawings. Here we just worked with what we had. Our next attempt will have a more galleria support frame on the back that is made separately and then welded onto the setting half. So besides the repairs we like to do different projects like these. How I welded the prongs was two at a time with u shape wire to the width of the stone with notches already burred out so they get snap in and you don't have to hold anything but run solder. Feel free to ask me anything else on how we did this.

My first time doing something like this and it turned out great. The stone isn't real but she had it since birth. Then their house burned down and was all she had left. We melted her gold and used it to make it. I'm still going over a few details . I charged her 150 dollars. Her gold wasn't that great because of the chains and solder aren't great scrap metals but we made it happen.

You really have to be honest sometimes when you learn something new. Along with my brother also teaching me about this substitute for the sparex pickle solution. I tried it over the weekend and got exceptionally good results to my clean metals before and after welding. Thank you to the new two members. We're now at 20 and into one of the greatest jewelry seasons, "Valentine's Day". For this I've been working on a heart ring. I'll show later on.

This is a very common task that I should charge to teach but I believe in giving back to the community so I'll be working on extra operation classes like this head and set and mounting fabrication from seat to prong by prong. Here the original setting was composed of only two prongs, the customer lost the cz stone about .40ct, so I decided to do 3 prongs with a .50ct cz. Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the final result, but the customer loves it. At a jewelry store where they sell loose stones then they offer this service to set their stone in your mounting and that's where you come in and make that happen either by ordering a new head or mounting or my personal favorite is to add new prongs around the same setting.