I got quite a nice couple of stones from Nigeria.
I cut the largest into two with a diamond saw.
Then I rolled out some 18 kt yellow gold about 2 mm thick.
I polished the two ends and the gols and resin bonded them together.
I use HXTAL resin to bond them together.
Once they were bonded together, I filed the gold further down.
I filed it level with the preform and then continued shaping the pre form until it was ready for dopping.
I use an Imahashi gem cutting machine.
The cut and polished stone.
I thought that the gold would interfere with my polishing lap.
I use a Batt lap, which is primarily a combination of tin and zinc, so I though that gold swarf would embed itself into the Batt lap and then scratch the surface of the stone.
This did not happen at all, and it polished as if it were a normal stone.
I set some 1.5 mm diamonds pavé into the gold strip.
I set some 1.5 mm diamonds pavé into the gold strip.
Set with a 0.10ct diamonf in white gold. The bail also has a diamond in it. EU2800.00 SOLD
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