hi there and welcome today I will be showing you how I made this sterling silver and Swiss blue topaz cocktail style ring this is the setting that I already made made from gallery wire and I started on the ground wire and this is me just checking the size of the stone against the betting to make sure it's go I use the gallery wire and then using my half round pliers I bent it around to get the shape of the stone once I've bent it round I checked the final shape and when it was right I cut along the line I sold it it together flush against the setting here I'm using my half round and then on the underside of the setting I went over again with my file and my buff stick here I'm just buffing around the edges to make sure it's nice and comfortable when it's worn is the ring and all the sharp edges off and making it nice and round I then got the round wire that I was using I started bending it round into a rough ring shape leaving enough room for the setting on my steel block I then hammered just the ends to make it a little bit thinner and to flower out a little bit like so just checking and then just filing the edges to make it a little bit smoother and a little bit more uniform a tower over again with my mastic flatten it out with one of my birds I have or you could use the file if you don't have a pendant drill and then check the size to make sure that the setting fit in the plane this is me just using a paintbrush to paint on my flux to stop the oxides getting in the way of my soldering I used hearts out and then cut off most of the claws leaving eight two in each corner and then carefully Sabbath stone and using my beret or safety file I filed along the claws carefully being careful not to scratch the stone at all just rounding off the claws and making sure they won't catch any fabrics for anything at all and my bend outwards then got my Tripoli with my polishing burrs and went around all the sides of the Ring polishing it up before the final polish which is here using my cotton bear I'm just doing the final polish around the outside and around the shank after being in the ultrasonic then for a few minutes just to get out the extra polish I use a polishing cloth and here is Swiss blue and sterling silver topaz cocktail style ring thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed the video please do come and watch me make things live over on twitch.tv 4th / alvin ailey i'll put the link in the description thanks again see you next time