Three Corner Collet Making

Making Collet for Unusual Cut Gemstone - US$20

PDF Dowload will be emailed 4-12 hours after purchase.

This jewelry lesson will teach you in detail and easy to follow steps and shows you:

- Shape bezel
- Solder wire prongs
- Solder connector bars
This tutorial can be made in a standard smithing workshop. You will need:
- Metal : silver or gold or other
- Three cornered gemstone

You will receive :

-- 18 Pictures and illustrations
-- 9 Pages of detailed instructions
-- Personalized tips on tools and techniques

Three corner collet making bending prongs

Carefully bending prongs equally.

Three Corner Collet Making - Measure distance

Measure and mark distance to solder bar. in.

This unusual collet is made for this unusually cut gemstone. I cut this gemstone from Laminated Gemstone, a technique described over here.

The gemstone is not quite a trapeze cut nor a coffin shaped gem. In gem cutting terms it is called a cut-corner triangle gemstone. The gemstone has six sides with three distinct flat corners.