How Pro' Jewellers Make Round Collets

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[@jw4879]

Is there another way to do this? I do not have the hand strength to bend a piece of metal along its flat plane.

[@duanedodson1]

There is always another way, but the tools can get kind of spendy.

[@Gazz_R]

You could cut it out from flat sheet, instead of bending it.

[@ElectricalNoises]

There's millions of ways to do everything. If you'll notice, he's not using much hand strength and only doing a little at a time. The pilers and bench peg should give enough leverage to move an annealed piece of silver without much effort. Alternatively you could just cut a parallel strip, bend it up like a tube, solder then bang it in the collet block.

[@DiamondMounter]

yes cut it out of a sheet or try find some pliers with longer handles

[@jw4879]

@@DiamondMountergreat suggestions. Thanks all!

[@LucySmith-n5x]

Sorry to highjack the video comments with something unrelated, I have a raindance style ring to make with 8 collets, I am unsure whether to do 3 separate rings like stacking bands with the collets fitted and then solder them ? or would you make a thick band and cut it at top and open out then fit in collets ??

[@LucySmith-n5x]

Also would parallel collets work or would they have to be under ?

[@DiamondMounter]

3 bands looks too wide to me. Too much metal costs a lot and make the ring heavy. Try 2 bands that clamp some collets down the middle. parallel usually ok

[@LucySmith-n5x]

@@DiamondMounter thank you very much I’ll try it with two maybe that would be easier