This PDF tutorial will teach you how to make a gold-rimmed setting for an angular faceted stone and incorporate it into a three ring stacker set.

Materials: ​Faceted stone
3 Sterling silver strips 1.6mm (14 gauge) by 3mm, 7.5 cm. long
22k gold strip .5mm (24 gauge) by 1mm, long enough to wrap stone Sterling silver sheet slightly thicker than the distance from the girdle to the culet of your stone, large enough to solder the bezel to

18k yellow hard solder

Hard silver solder

Tools (With Riogrande item # unless otherwise specified):

0 cut flat hand file ​#: 114924
Permanent marker
Scribe ​#: 118459
Jeweler’s ruler ​#: 11602210
Dividers ​#: 116171
Jeweler’s saw ​#: 110041
2/0 Blades ​#: 110306
Half-round pliers ​#: 111180
Prips flux in a hypodermic bottle (or whatever kind of flux and application method

you prefer) Otto Frei ​# 154.503 for the flux Rio #​ : 504005 for the bottle Titanium or tungsten solder pick ​#: 503021
Ring mandrel ​#: 112322
Nylon mallet ​#: 119327
Steel benchblock ​#: 112570
Sanding sticks (180, 320, and 600 grit) ​#: 337595
Rubberized abrasive on a mandrel for the flexshaft ​#: 332826 for the wheel

#: 333108 for the mandrel
Chain nose pliers ​#: 111074
Parallel pliers #: 111321
#2 cut needle file set #: 114797
#4 cut needle file set #: 114799
Flush cutters #: 111033
Small flat-faced hammer #: 112223
Wax stone picker-upper (make your own using sticky wax mixed with charcoal) 1mm drill bit #: 349087
1mm ball bur #: 345502
Medium 3M bristle disc #: 332583 (these are for the flex-shaft, but I also use big

ones on my polishing machine) Ring clamp #: 113105

Bezel roller #: 113063
Third hand tweezers #: 502067