This ring was a fun challenge. Since most of the work of stone setting and graving is done in metal, it would seem that the wax carving would have been easy. However, keeping good symmetry was very challenging. I did most of the carving under 6x magnification.

I used tacky wax to stick the diamonds on the wax model to plan out the bead setting and to show the customer.


Because of all the cut outs, the wax required extra sprues to ensure a complete casting.

After I cut the seat for the center oval, I used dividers to score evenly spaced marks on the bezel. Then I used a jeweler’s saw to cut through the bezel. The hammer hand piece seemed to effortlessly move each little prong over the girdle to tighten the diamond. Whereas with a solid bezel, the tends to be a lot of hammering.

Thank you Fred from Uncommon Design for the nice bright cutting on the bead set diamonds.