Prong Settings From Start to Finish

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Add high-quality prong settings to all of your future projects with key soldering and wire-forming skills!

Simple Prong Setting: Tube & Prongs

Meet Nancy and get started on your first project: a simple prong setting that is actually a combination of a tube and prong setting. Nancy will walk you through the planning and measurement for your setting. See her simple jig that allows you to solder your prongs to your tube with ease and efficiency. By the end of this lesson, your setting will be ready to attach to your ring shank.

Simple Prong Setting: Preparing the Setting

See how to prepare your ring shank for the setting. Learn how to confidently solder the setting to the ring. Then clean up using a flex shaft and sanding discs for a polished. Nancy shows you how!

Simple Prong Setting: Setting the Stone

Now it’s time to set your stone. Learn the basics of trimming and thinning your prongs. Also see how to create a seat, and round the prongs to securely fit your faceted stone. Nancy also shows you how to file your prongs for a clean professional look.

Simple Basket Setting: Creating the Bearing

In this lesson you’ll start to create a basket setting entirely from wire. With Nancy’s guidance, make perfectly sized jump rings and prongs, then use your soldering skills to assemble the bearing.

Simple Basket Setting: Preparation for Setting

Nancy will guide you through correct prong bending and placement. Your setting is really starting to take shape here. Once again, see how to file prongs and set your stone.

Traditional Basket Setting

In the last lesson, master a more advanced setting. Nancy demonstrates how you can shape and bend wire to create this elegant bearing. Learn the techniques to achieve the precision required for this sometimes fussy but elegant setting.