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Summary: How to sketch jewelry designs; get expert tips and advice on tools and techniques for resizing and repairing jewelry in this free instructional video.

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Joe Maughan is a second-generation jeweler with over 15 years experience in the jewelry industry. Joe is the owner of "The Vug" jewelry store in Salt Lake City, Utah.read more

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"Hello. On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Joe. I own "The Vug" local jewelry store in Salt Lake City. I want to talk about jewelry designing. Basically, when you go to a jeweler, you need an idea if you're going to do a custom piece or if you're making a piece of jewelry. You want an idea of what you're going to do before you start the piece. I've picked out a couple of just odd ball stones here. Here's a piece of fire agate, which is a beautiful stone, but an odd shape, a free form shape. Say someone came in and wanted this into a pendant, basically where I would start, is how is I'm going to hang to it. You start with the bale, here's your chain, you go through a bale, that basically holds the piece. Now you start talking about how you want it held. Well, here's the stone, basically, terrible sketch here, but let's say you wanted a couple of diamonds up the side, up this side, and maybe you wanted a feather, a gold feather, or something to come off this way. Basically, you want to give the idea of, an idea, of how you want it set. Let's say you want this square piece of blood stone in a piece of, let's say you want it in a ring, well here's your blood stone, where are you going to go with the ring? Well, let's put it on a wide band to start with and then let's put some, maybe, three little, what goes good with green, let's put three little yellow stones down each side and then around the edge can we do a bezel setting that's maybe a, I don't know what is this, a half-round type bezel. This is the basics of sketching. You can also, kind of do, a three-dimensional ring, something more like this. And then let's start with a stone that sets in the top here. Basically, you want to give the jeweler and yourself an idea of where you're going to start with the piece before you actually start beginning to make the piece."

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