A jewelry designer in Oregon designed a ring which needed square tubes set into a Black Jade inlay which arched across the top of a white gold ring. They would set square Diamonds into the tubes after we are finished.
This shows the ring which they sent me and the piece of rough Black Jade which I have selected for the inlay.
We use Edwards Black Jade, which is a very hard, tough, and clean material which works great for inlays.
This shows the finished Black Jade inlay which is ready to be drilled.
You can see that the Black Jade takes a very high polish.
You can see the ring in the process of making the square holes and fitting each of the white gold square tubes into each hole.
Making square holes takes a lot of time by hand filing them with diamond files embedded with diamond sand.
This shows the underside of the area where the holes are.
This shows a side view of the ring.
You can see how the tubes are sticking through the bottom of the ring shank and are also sitting above the level of the Black Jade inlay. The jeweler had asked us to leave the tubes sticking up by this amount.
Here you can see the finished ring with the square tubes sitting in place.
After the jeweler receives it from us, they will afix the bottoms of the square gold tubes to the shank of the ring and then set Diamonds into the tops of the tubes.
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Denton Anderson,
Gemologist & Gem Cutter
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Graduate Gemologist, GIA, GG
Over 20 years of experience.
