Atlas Jewelers Bench Talk

Denice always regretted setting a peridot in her ring when the original trillion blue zircon, got damaged.

I told her, that in the event we could not find a new blue zircon trillion cut stone in budget, we could rework the ring to accommodate a different shape stone.

We found a nice round stone that she was happy with.

I got to work, first, cutting off the old trillion gallery.

It left a huge hole and seat that needed to be filled.  I did a controlled melt of white gold to fill the hole.  I slowly brought the ring to the melting point and added beads of gold.  Then pulled back the flame. I  kept adding small beads of white gold until it was filled in.  No solder was used.

I grind, sanded and shaped the area smooth.

I  lasered on a fabricated “donut” of gold for the new seat/gallery.

I tack lasered on a big prong and then soldered it in place.

I cut a seat and set the stone.

Cleaned up and polished.  The ring does not look like it went through a major remodel.