{"id":424,"date":"2018-06-23T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T02:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2023-10-27T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T22:08:39","slug":"sterling-silver-and-2mm-chocolate-cz-eternity-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Silver and 2mm Chocolate CZ Eternity Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sterling silver Eternity ring set with 24 2mm Chocolate CZ’s<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One type of ring that I have been wanting to try to make is an \u201cEternity\u201d ring<\/strong>, where a ring band’s circumference is wrapped with evenly-spaced faceted gems. I had seen a lot of online videos of professional and master smiths creating them in a variety of styles using various tools ranging from burs to gravers, so I figured that I would give it a shot with what tools I have (jeweler’s saw, burs and files).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had purchased a packet of 2 mm round Chocolate Cubic Zirconia<\/strong> stones back in 2014 to practice gypsy-set flush mounting of faceted gems with, and still had plenty of them left, so I dug those out to use. That way, if the ring turned out to be a total failure and needed to be scrapped, I wouldn’t run the risk of damaging expensive stones when retrieving them (and at 15 cents each I wouldn’t exactly be breaking the bank, either). \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also had a little bit of square wire left from an ingot I had poured and rolled out for toggles on some cuff links I made a while back, so I rolled that out a little more until it was about 2.5 mm square, trued it up with a file and made a band in size 6 3\/4 for the stones to be set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Determining the number of stones I should use so they would be evenly spaced around the band with enough gap between them (but not too much) was a slight challenge in itself. I have no idea if there’s a standard way of figuring this part out for eternity rings or not, so it took a bit of playing around with a calculator as well as laying the stones out, table down, around the ring on the bench for a rough \u201cguess-timate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sterling silver Eternity ring with CZ’s<\/strong> work-in-progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I eventually settled on using 24 stones, so with caliper and dividers I marked off the band and got busy drilling holes, working with the saw, burs and a round file to make the seats, flutes and channel needed to create the necessary settings and \u201cprongs\u201d for the stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I had never made an Eternity ring before, and am NOT a professional setter of faceted gems by any means (having only set faceted gems since I started silversmithing back up in 2014), I feel I still have a lot to learn in that area but was really pleased with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a very fun and challenging ring to make, I got a lot of really nice practice in, and although it’s far from perfect in my eyes, just seeing the look on Kathy’s face when I handed the finished ring to her was priceless. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One type of ring that I have been wanting to try to make is an \u201cEternity\u201d ring, where a ring band’s circumference is wrapped with evenly-spaced faceted gems. I had seen a lot of online videos of professional and master smiths creating them in a variety of styles using various tools ranging from burs to … <\/p>\n

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