[Jewelry making - Article 00376] - Re: [Orchid] Fabricate Cluster Charge?

[John Donivan]

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>     I'm curious to know How much would you charge to fabricate a Oval
>     Cluster with a 9x7 Oval ruby and 12 Rd. Dia's sizes measuring 3mm
>     to 3.5mm around in White Gold 

    Johneric, it all depends on how much money you need to make, and
    what method you use to build it. I would roll out a piece of sheet
    to 2 or 2.5mm or so and make a setting plate out of it - lay it out,
    drill it, cut the oval and solder (or file) a raised edge if you
    like, and then saw it out. It's one piece and it should take an hour
    or two at most. Likewise if you use the old method of clay and
    investment it should also take an hour or two at most to make the
    plate. If you're going to try to juggle all those parts then, yeah,
    that's a real headache, and you don't really say what the back is,
    plus there's setting. You do realize that the circumference of your
    oval is 25mm and 12 x 3mm = 38 - 40mm (6 x 3mm + 6 x 3.5mm more like
    45mm) with some clearance between stones, don't you? If you're
    actually going to make some space- ey cluster like that then how you
    span the gap between the center and the melee is going to be part of
    your cost and efforts. Also style could be a factor - straight,
    angled, stepped, offset, various things. For myself, I'd be very
    happy to do that work for the price you say (I would be wholesale),
    but that's me, not you. 

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