making a ring

This is the story of a ring.

This is a 2.87 carat natural green sapphire set in a platinum head with 18k gold shank. Natural, untreated stone with interesting inclusions. Yarsolav did the work by hand with a little bit of help from the laser welder.

Raw materials for the ring. Green sapphire, gold, and platinum.

Slava has started rolling out the platinum.

beginning work on the setting for the green sapphire

A lot of hand filing!

The setting is taking shape.

work begins on the shank

The platinum portion of the ring is nearly finished, now onto the gold.

Melting the gold for the next step

the gold is rolled out in this formidable rolling machine.

starting to look like a ring!

Yaroslav files out the shank 

Almost there!

After setting the stone, refining and polishing, the ring is finally finished!