Prong set wirework cabochon

hello there everyone today I'm going to show you how you can do a prong-set Commission and it can look a little something like this so this is just the one that I'm going to be showing you how to do so a nice teardrop shaped cabochons in this case just a black one and you got your prongs all the way around there holding it nice and securely animate a bail then I just made it back like this so bit of a feature as well you can either keep it simple make a bit of a design on the back as well it's completely up to you and it's nicely in there secure it's not going to come out at all because the prongs hold it nicely in place so you can do use this technique for many different shapes and sizes of cabouchins I'm just going to show you how to do on the teardrop one but it will work for other sizes and shapes as well so if you want to learn how to do this then keep watching so these are the things that we'll need now I have two gauges of wire here they're both regular round wire and I'm just using a silver coated wire to match my black stone the first gauge I have here is a point eight mill we're going to use this for the structure so it's the base wire and then also to make the actual prongs the other wire they have here is a point four mill we're going to use this to wrap around and help keep it all together then also do the bail with this wrap the bail and then the final thing I have is the actual stone that I'm going to be setting this is just a teardrop shape a black agate so this is just what I'm going to be demonstrating with but you can use this technique in the prongs for many different types shapes and sizes of stones and cabinets that you have I'm just going to be demonstrating with this one so let's get it all together and let's get started so then the first thing we need to do is find the circumference or the cabochons that we're working with and then I also have just a regular piece of paper here that I'm just going to be working on to begin with because we also need to figure out where we need to place our prongs as we're going to be making them so to measure the circumference of my stone I usually just take a piece of scrap card and then place it all the way around from the very tip there and then get it around to stone and then to meet back up and then I know that's the full circumference and then I'm going to get out my roll-up and then measure this how long is and this one happens to be 10 centimeters so pretty spot on there so what I need to do is use my ruler and then get a pencil as well and on the piece of paper we just need to draw a line with that circumference in my case the 10 centimeters so I'm going to draw that a straight line that this is how we're going to create our prongs so like that got my 10 centimeters there and then what I'm also just going to do is find the midpoint for this line just as a bit of a guide and obviously this is 10 centimeters so it's going to be fairly easy that's 5 centimeters I need to make off so just like that just a little Mac just like that because this is only for reference to place our prongs we're going to cross this out again I'll rub it out later on and then now what we need to do is figure out where we want to place our prongs now you can do this in a few different ways you can either just work it out mathematically so say from the center point and then measure out how far you want in between but obviously what I like to do is well as reference against this stone because this is a straight line that were working with it can be a little bit hard to imagine how that's going to look on the stone so say if you have an oval as well you want to place them as evenly as possible so what I like to do is just on the side of it here just take my stall and draw all the way around it just to help give a guideline so like this and then what I can do with this is just have a look at because this is a shape of my stone now I can have a look here and then basically place in where I want my prongs to sit so on the bottom here and do it right around there try and get it even on both sides you can always spend a bit of time doing this and what you just want to make sure when you place your prongs is that this counts for any shape that you're doing any shape of cabochon that you're working with you always just need to make sure you put them in keep it's going to hold the caption in place so always if you look them from this this is the bottom of it so if we look at it from this angle we need to make sure we go below the widest point so it's going to hug the bottom of it basically because the widest point is up here so almost a bit in the corner you could say obviously it doesn't have obvious corners and the same if you were to look at it from the other angle now this is a teardrop assume if you had an oval as well you want to make sure you go just a bit below the widest point so it's going to basically cook it in and hold it in place so I'm going to place my first two prongs around here and then on the top I want to placed roughly there like I said this is completely up to you where you want yours placed this is just kind of the way that I like to do it just something like that and then I'm going to get my piece of scrap card out again because we're working with curves now not a straight line and I just want to get a rough idea of the distance from one prong to the other so I'll just start with the two bottom ones here so just gently put your card in between the two in that curve following the line of the cabochon and then what I just also like to do as well because if you look on your cabochons what we've done is drawn the circumference around it but compared to where because we're building like going to build a frame where the prongs are going to come out from that frame is going to sit just behind but just within the circumference so that means we just have to take a little bit off our measurements so take off about a couple of millimeters as well so I know from one prompt the next is there and then you're just going to make it just about one or two millimeters shorter than that so I'm going to go over to my straight line again then because it is to help get them placed centrally and nice and evenly all the way around and then I'm just going to measure this length first so from 0 and then this is actually 2 centimeters so I know that is 2 centimeters from the 2 bottom prongs there the ones that are going to sit on the very bottom and hold your stone in place from there and that very bottom of the cabochon is the midpoint that I measured on the straight line so remembering that it's 2 centimeters so that's easy enough that means I have to do 1 centimeter on each side of this midpoint so Zizi now if you try and keep the two obviously even numbers otherwise you can just work it out what 1/2 would be so I now have one centimeter on each side of the very midpoint on the straight line there so those are going to be the placement of my very first prongs and then to measure the distance with the other two prongs as well going to go back to my drawing there of the actual shape the cabochon and do the exact same thing basically still measure from one of the bottom prongs up the side of it to the very next one and following that curve that you have when you're drawing the cabochon and again I'm just going to take off about two millimeters or so cuz to make sure that the frame of the piece is going to be within the size of the cabochons just like I just explained so take this again do the exact same thing measure the length of this and this again happens to be 2 centimeters so that's quite handy but remember it can be different for yours and it probably will be will be different for different sizes and shapes so I'm going to measure from where one of the prongs is go further out to one side two centimeters in my case do the same thing on the other side as well so the prong from the other side and go two centimeters out from there so this is just how I like to kind of figure out where to put my prongs to try and make it as easy as possible instead of too much math really because I don't really do that well with math and then also get it as nice and even as possible to get a final look on whether cabochons that you using so this is now the guideline that we're going to use used to be able to make uh prongs to begin with and like I said we can just worry about the very center point that we marked up that's the very first one now it's made just so we don't get confused with it and maybe think we need to put prong there because we only need the four in this case anyway you can obviously make more prongs if you want to but in most cases four will be sufficient so I've now gotten rid of that midpoint and I know I've got these four points as I'm going along and making my prongs that I need to place the prongs in so then now what we have to do is just cut to length of a point eight mill where and what I have a cutting different links I've just done one that's a bit shorter that's this one this are just on 25 centimeters because that's the one that's going to run along the inside and I'll get to explaining that in a bit and then I've done one that's a bit longer and this is this thirty centimeters long now the longer one is the one I'm going to use to make the prongs with to begin with because the reason I then made it longer is because you've got to remember each prong as we're making it's going to take up a bit of wire so I just made this a little bit longer and also these measurements are just in relation to the Couchman that I'm using you might want to use longer or shorter lengths depending on the shape and the size of yours so then what we need to do first is make the section here with the prongs and what I'm going to take out is that longer piece of wire that I cut off so I'm going to take this and we just make sure there's no kinks or bends in it first of all so just run it through your hands for a bit but then also try and get it as straight as possible because this is a straight line we just want to try and follow that to begin with so get it nice and straight and then to start making this section what I personally like to use as well it's a flat nose plier here and that's the one that's got a wide tip but it's flat all the way you can use chain nose pliers that's fine the reason that I like use using these is that when you're making your prongs because obviously you've got to think about the length of your prongs as well the size of them first of all you go decide that compared to your stone because some stones a thicker and some stones are not as thick if they're not that thick you can use smaller prongs so they're thicker you might need to use longer ones that's kind of a judgement call depending on the stone that you're using but what I like to do at least so I know it's going to fit this is make basically prong the length of my plier hair now obviously if you need to be longer you might not be able to do that but so I'm going to do is place this down and just use it's very tip of my plier as a guide so that way I also make sure that all the prongs become even and exactly the same now what you can do if you don't have that or you can't find the right size plier you can also go over this drawing that you've made reference with the measurements for each prong and just measure out first so say if you want your prong to be one centimeter long you can just go over with your ruler first and Mac off the length like that all the way for each every prong so that's a way to do it as well and that way you can then do it's a wee chain nose pliers because you know that you need to grab it right where you've masked it off but that's completely up to you I'm just going to be using these spires it's a fine that a bit easier so then what we need to do to stop making the prongs here we need to start towards the middle of a wire so not all the way to one end but towards the middle remember not all the way in the middle either because every time make a prong it's going to take up a bit of wire so just so you have a decent length left on this side I'm going to start from here and work my way across because we I'm also gonna be using these as they make the bail and in the back as well so you still want to have enough to do that so I'm going to place my wire down here keep working against my sketch and again some measurements there because I try and make sure you get a straight line with your wire as possible because our going to be doing that throughout so just where you working make it as straight as possible and then what I'm going to do is place my pliers right before that very first dot that I made on marking pick them up and then I'm going to bend my wire against my pliers so the long tail so what we're making the prongs with just like that straight up so you get a nice sharp angle in there and 90-degree one because we need the prongs to be coming straight up so like that and then to make the very first prong what I then do is take the very tip of these pliers place them against that angle that we just made to the won't go down any further and it looks like this and then like I said I'm going to use the actual pliers themselves to make my prong so just make sure your way is sitting nicely in there and I'm going to have them all the way towards the tip that's just the measurement that I'm going to be working with and then the very that's a long tail that we're working with to make the prongs Bend that towards the opposite direction of where you have the other tail and you want to come all the way back in itself come all the way around apply like that and point down and stead of up then take the pliers out we have this so it's the beginning of a prong here what we need to do now is just tighten this up because it's a bit too open to do that what I'm going to do is place this whole thing the prong into my pliers and I like working towards the back end of my place there it gives a bit more control and then just gently start squeezing just nice and gentle try and do it in small movements rather than just one big push because what can happen as well as you're squeezing these together is that it can twist on you the wires because I was lying side-by-side you trying to squeeze them together so to try and avoid that happening just take it nice and steady and that's why I like doing it at the back of applies as well it gives more control but if they do twisting you just grab onto them and twist them back so it's not a big deal if they do twist but just trying to avoid it if you can then there we have the very first prong and then what I like to do because now we need the long end to come straight out again to be able to make that straight line to match with the sketch what I do is play some pliers back on and I'm not squeezing tight I'm little just holding the wire gently because otherwise you will kind of you'll make the wires cross over each other and then Bend in the long tail against my pliers again so there we go though we have the very first problem and then the wires are still coming out in a straight line now this works in this case what you might you might not be able to do that where you hold around the prong like this if you can't what you can do is just open up the prong a little bit and get some chain nose pliers right at the base but then just be aware to try and make sure you get the bend in exactly the same spot so you don't want the angle on this side to be safe further down the other side or further up as well so just try and get them an email as possible to get that nice straight line so this is the very first prong so now I'm just going to continue like this making the other ones as well so place this back down for referencing on your paper the measurements that you made make sure that the tail here are you working with this nice and straight to the next point where you're going to make your prom so lay this prong over the first mark and then for the next one place your pliers in again just before the next mark like that because obviously the actual prong takes up a little bit more space than the max themselves so like that and do the whole thing again bend your wire against your pliers to get a nice sharp angle and place them back in so they won't go down any further against the angle there and then Bend your long tail all the way around you apply it back on itself come back down straight down like this and then start squeezing this nice and tight gently until it's as tight as you want it if you can still see a bit of a gap then I'm going to squeeze a bit more so just like that place of pliers in it again just make sure it's nice and flat just gently holding on and then bending my wire again against my pliers I find that to be the best way to get nice sharp angles so there we go that's the next problem so we now have two and then time to move on to do the next one you just want to continue doing this all the way across the markets that have the four prongs so I'm going to keep doing this till I've made all four prongs so now I made all my four prongs there as you can see they fit nicely with a little sketch that I made so the measurements are nice so far and correct so now we need to do is start actually making the frame of the piece as well so make the whole prongs section here a little bit stronger so I'm done with my measurements and my sketches because what we need to do is move on to bringing the other base wire into it as well now so the other length they cut off for the point eight melts or the shorter one in my case again I'm just going to make sure there's no kinks or bends in it and also straight now as much as possible because then what we need to do now is bring these two together straight below each other so this length here the shorter length is going to lie right beneath the other one and then what we're going to do is use a point for Miller wire to wrap these two together so then got my point four mil wire here ready to wrap with and now just left it on the reel just because it's hard to know how much you need and also just so you don't run out so I'd rather just leave it on the reel if you're more comfortable you can always cut it off just make sure you have a decent length of maybe a metre and a half to two meters because I also want to try and use this to create the bail and ideally I prefer to try and use continuous lengths as far as I can so I'm just going to leave it on the reel in my case straighten this out as much as possible so we can bring the two together and then I'm going to pick them up and then put that the sexual way with the prongs on is going to be on top and then I'm going to start on one end here and then all we need to do really is take this point formula wire I also like to leave a fairly substantial tail before I start wrapping just because I'm probably going to use that at the end to either finish something off I use it to the back sections as well so I'm just going to start here if you fall one of the prongs so start wrapping here and then work my way all the way across and then all you need to do is basically wrap around both wires together and the most important part is just to make sure that they stay flat throughout so line next to each other like that and then just basically keep wrapping now the beginning wraps in are just going to be most difficult because obviously everything is still loose we just keep wrapping making sure that every time you do a wrap it's nice and close to the previous one so you get a nice neat look and then what you can always do is squeeze them together as well either with your nails or you can take some pliers and squeeze your wraps together so it gets nice and tight and then you just want to keep wrapping like this like I said make sure you to base wise align flat next to each other so they don't end up crossing over and keep wrapping like this all the way to reach our very first prong I'm just going to show you what to do then because obviously the prom is going to be in the way to continue wrapping on the same wave so keep wrapping right up against your prong there then what I do is instead of wrap around both of them to get to the other side of the prong I just wrap in between the two base wires so like this they go in between them and basically just wrap just below the prong because what you can see is you have a tiny little space there so I'm just going to wrap a couple of times in that little space around just the bottom wire here without the prongs on until I reach the other side of the prom comfortably so that's usually in my case about three or four wraps so like that have a look at it see how it sits can do just one more then I can say we do and fall on the single wire alone because that's going to be right below the prong then so now I'm just going to continue wrapping around both because I'm on the other side the prong now so back to just wrapping around both of them together and again still making sure all the wraps are nice and tight just like this and now I'm on the other side of the prompt then that's nice and secure and the whole piece is a little bit easier to wrap now as well because your wires don't move as much but it'll get even easier them further you get along you just want to keep wrapping like this all the way along pass every single prong until you reach the other side and just wrap a little bit of the sides on each side of the last prongs they're not too far because then we need to start shaping this and find out how it fits nicely with the cabochons so I've now wrecked across all four prongs there and have a little section of wraps as well just on each side so now we need to do is start shaping this into the cabochons shape so obviously it can fit and hold on to it so what I'm going to do is just flip this over because what we need to do is shape it but with the prongs facing outward so just gently start and I cast out from the middle and just gently start putting curves into it so just start and then move it across just take your time and what you want to make sure to do as well as as you're shaping it that stays nice and flat so the prongs are sticking out towards the side rather than say you start like this and then start shaping it I'm doing this all the way around gradually getting into the shape now make is I'm using the teardrop cabochons so I need it in the teardrop shape so I'm going to start doing this Wellspring the cabochons into it so I can keep referring back to that make sure I get at the right size and shape to fit just within the circumference of the cabbage in itself it's just nice and gentle take your time make sure the whole thing stays flat and you can just measure against it see what the bottom is like for now the bottom looks pretty good to me so now we just need up the sides there and the top wise here just cross them over each other for now we'll deal with them once we have the shape in place same on the other side so I'll get in that teardrop shape now almost there just need to make the size of it tighter as well again so just take your time doing this until you get the shape and size just right for your Commission and obviously this whole thing still looks nice and neat and even all the way around so you have this nice framework on the back and then the prongs sticking out towards the side so something a bit like this now we're almost there so just keep doing this until you're happy so now kept shaping out until reach the shape that I want it to have so if it's nice and quick Irish in there as you can see if it's just within this conference because that's what we want to do so this back frame it's also going to help support the cabochons on the back there but so you can't really see it on the front so you can base it just the caption just covers it when you look from the front so that's just how I want it to be so now we need to do stats out on other wires on top here now you can obviously see I still have a bit of ways to wrap before those why's me up so this is where it's best to leave this wrapping because you don't want to end up wrapping too much and then shape it even it up wrapping too much and have to undo some so it's better wrapping too little so I'm just gonna continue my wraps for a little bit on both sides I'm not going to go all the way up because what we need to do is split the wires up so I'm going to go up to about half lay there on each side of the bed why's that I have left now because then I'm going to show you what we're going to do because we're going to use some other wires here base wires for the bail but some of them are going to go straight down to instantly help form the backpack so I'm just going to keep wrapping for a little bit so I've now wrapped a bit further up on both sides here and then again still not wrapping all the way up to where my base wires cross the reason for that like I said is because we're going to be splitting up the wires now so what you just want to do first is decide what you want to use is the front on the back both sides should be pretty much the same but just in case one sided say you have a little bit of untidy wraps on one side that you can see but not the other side you can always choose which one you want to be the one you can actually see so what we need to do now is split the wires so I'm going to get my chain nose pliers in this case and I'm just gonna start with one side here when you just open them off first to be able to get applies in and then I'm leaving the top one what I'm doing is the bottom one that's furthest towards the inside the middle of the piece here I'm going to grab that all the way down to where my wraps are finished and just get all the way in there and then bend it straight down just like that so there we go so goes straight down like that and then we need to do the same with the other side so I just need to bring those to the front there we go open up the wires so you can get your pliers in there take the bottom one again just go right down to where your wraps are finished and then Bend that also just straight down just have a prong in the way there straight down just like the other one so they're coming straight down towards the bottom of your piece here try and get them as even as possible so there we go we can always adjust these later on so don't worry too much about them just make sure the bed straight down so now this is going to be my back the whole back of my piece because these are faced towards the back you need to make sure you bend them towards the same side there so now what you need to do is call us just double check that you still got the right size and shape mine opened up a little bit so I'm just going to close it back up just nice and gently until it's just right again there we go so now I'm going to do is again do one side at a time you need to continue wrapping up with these now we only have single wires going upwards we just need to continue wrapping on those all the way up to the point where they meet up pretty much so just do one side at a time start wrapping around that individual wire just think simple coils all the way around get nice and tight as well so it blends in nicely do this a little bit further up until they pretty much meet and do that on both sides as well and then reach the point we're going to start focusing on making the bail so I've now read further from both sides there to the point where the wires on will cross over so what we need to do now and still just make sure that it still fits your Capuchin so you don't end up wrapping too much or too far something like this so what we need to do now is bend these bare wires now in the shapes we can start making the bail again I'm going to take my chain nose pliers for that and then just do one wire at a time so just that with my furthest back one it's easy to get to and then just right where my weave or my wraps rather end I'm going to grab it on there and then just bend it upward and then a bit towards the side so it comes back out at an angle like that and the same with the one the other side grab it right where you're wrapping ends and then bend it upwards and a bit towards the opposite side so you have something that looks like this so from the other side here which is the front and my case it's going to look like this so we're going to have a nice beginning shape for the bail you can just correct these until you're nice and happy with it so they're quite even and they come pretty much the same angle because what I like to do is have a bit of a feature of the Bale as well so make it a bit of an angle so I'm going to have it graduating outwards first and then get to the widest point and then graduate back inwards again so I've now got this and then what we need to do now is start wrapping continue wrapping here with the actual with the way that we've been wrapping with the whole time but then actually make it into the veil so this is kind of the framework so now we're going to be moose moving straight into the Bale and in my case I've still got my wire attached here I've cut it off the reel and have a decent length left length left say if you put it off earlier and you've ended up you can tell you're not going to have enough wire to make the whole Bale what you can always just do is finish off this wire completely and just start wrapping with a new one that's completely fine as well I'm just if I can a prefer to use the same one throughout so I'm going to do is the wire that I've got here just choose your longest one I'm going to continue wrapping with that so go around this right one twice because what I'm going to be doing is a figure of eight weave to fill in this space with the Bale basically so the first one is going to be the fiddly that's one because you can see the wise it's still loose and what we need to do now coming down in between the two wires the base wires cross over to the other side and then wrap around that it's going to be the trickiest well you just have to keep hold of the whole thing while you're tightening this press it all the way down so it stays in the shape that you want it to just like this and again wrap around twice around that side so it's a figure of eight weave and I'm wrapping around twice every time I go around a base wire so down through the middle again make sure you wrap them nice and tight cross over to the opposite side wrap around this one twice once down through the middle make it twice cross over to the other side and then again up around once push down again twice and push down nice and tight and then you'll slowly start to see that you're filling in this whole space we do weave and because you can obviously make your Bell different but it's just a shape that I like him to be in this graduating outwards you'll find it gives a really nice feature so just keep filling this up and I'm going to keep doing this until reach the point that's going to be the very top of my bail so the widest point because then I'm going to start graduating in once again and I'm going to show you how I do that so I've now reached the point that I want to be the top of my bail so the widest point so what I'm going to do to graduate back in once again is that just you take my chain nose pliers and then grab one side at a time make sure your weave is pushed all the way down so it's nice and tight and then just gently bend it inward towards the middle give it a nice angle so roughly the same as your the other side of it there same thing on the opposite side grab it right whether weave ends and bend it inward so like this you can always adjust it and then you can just open up the top here to make it a little bit easier to weave to get in between there and then you just want to continue weaving now when you're graduating in words it's a little bit different than when you're just weaving regularly either graduating downward outwards or not graduating at all and what I found to be the best thing is because what your while not you want to do as you're rapping go down between that usual is whenever you pulling your wraps tight the wire will naturally want to kind of slide towards a narrower point like that so obviously we want to avoid that because that's going to give not a very nice and neat finish so to avoid that when I go to the other side to wrap that side I want to basically use my fingers on nails to hold down the side that I just wrapped so just like that so it can be a little bit fiddly it's a little bit more tricky wrapping something to graduate in words but it is doable and again nice and tight like that and just always push that down go to the opposite side again and as I'm doing that I'm holding down the side that I just wrapped while I'm wrapping the other one so just like this and that's really the best way that I found to drag it and even and neat look as well when you're wrapping something that graduates inwards you just want to keep doing this so you get roughly the same length on this side of the midpoint as you have on this side because then what we need to do after that is shape the bail so now finish wrapping the bail completely to the length that I want it to be I was at length of its going to decide what size it is ultimately so now we need to do is bend it into the shape that we want as well so what you can do is get any form of mandrel anything you can take a pencil whatever you have really just something to help create the shape they're just going to put there behind it remember to bend it towards the direction of the back of it so where you have the other tails as well from your base wire so just put this behind it a bit below the center point and then start bending it back now this pencil is a bit too large for I want my bail so I'm just gonna get the curve in place and then just so I have a nice curve of the top there and then press the rest of it together so where your weave ends meets up with basically where you started out making the bail so that's what we want to do there so once it's shaped nicely what we need to do secure it in place so I'm going to use the wire that I've been making the bail with for that as well so you just get the other one out of the way here so I'm going to do because whereas you want this to still kind of blend in so just try and look just pretend that these wires out there for now what we're working with is just these two still that we made the bail with I'm going to take this tail that's also from the bail and I'm going to basically it's coming down in between the two wires now I'm going to go down in between the whole piece so straight up to the other side just like that and then on the back here I'm just going to have a look and then what I want to do is come around to the other side so just have a look and try and pull it tight there right at the bottom of the bale pull it tight so it blends in nicely bring it back to the back again and then I'm just going to bring it around the one leg that I'm running into first so I now come up in between the two and then wrap around that one extra time to fasten it nicely just again make it as nice and tight as possible because this what you do now is I'm going to just blend in with the weed that you've already done so it's not going to stand out or anything we need to do the same on the other side so I'm going to cross over to the other side so over the other leg still go up in between so I'm coming up on the other side and then here again just pull it around the front and just pull it quite tight if you can you can always use pliers to help get more tension in there so it blends in nicely back to the back again and then wrap it around the first leg you meet on this side so you've used both legs from the bail base wires rather so the both sides are nice and secure because you want obviously appears to be nice and secure and durable so like that just make sure everything is blended in nicely and it's nice and tight like I said sometimes pulling and grabbing with your pliers can give a better effect because you can grab hold much better then you can with your fingers and your hands wrap around the same leg and extra-time though you're just to make sure that it's nice and secure so there we know how to bail in place it's not going to move anywhere it's nice and secure in place so what that's left now is basically to sort out all these legs of the bay now the possibilities for what you can do with these are really endless so I'm just going to show you what I'm going to do with this one so what I think it's going to give a nice neat finish as well and make it look nice on the back because remember if this is a pendant it's going to move around as you wearing it so you want the back to look nice as well so we can just keep using the tails that we have left if you have enough that is this one might be a bit too short for what I want to do but you can always like I said add in new and we will have to add a new weaving wire to some of these legs anyway I'm just going to start with the one that I already have might as well use that I'm going to bring that around also to the back here and then what I'm going to do is basically get start working with one of these legs at time and what I'm going to do is just basically coil all the way down and then I want the ends of these wires to be attached to the frame as well just to make it nice and secure now it should hold plenty with a frame they've already made because it lies right behind of your cabochons so that is enough but if you want the extra security you can use these legs for that as well that's what I'm going to be doing so all I'm going to do is choose one leg for this and you start coiling around it so just make sure you put up every time you wrap around your wire but it up against the previous one so it becomes nice and tight and then now what I'm going to do with these is just basically have one wire reach one prong because then I'm going to attach them through one of those problems as well because we just have still a little bit of space but I'm going to continue with this wire on that leg then we also want to add some more weaving wire to the other legs so like I said I'm going to work with one way at a time but you might just want to have a look as well because you can obviously see the two wires coming from the bail they're kind of lying on top of the other ones so if you finish these ones off first can be a little bit difficult to get to those so before I do these ones completely I want to just do the other ones cuz they're kind of the bottom layer just so I've got more space to get in there so I want to attach a new length on my point formal wire I've just cut a decent length wherever you feel cotton working with or you can leave it on real and then start attaching this to one of the other legs that you have left the point eight mil and just put it all the way up against there and all you want to do stop coiling the exact same way all the way until you reach the length that you want it to be now these back ones I'm going to have coming down towards the bottom prongs the top two those also the shorter ones I'm going to have towards the top two prongs there so I'm just going to keep coiling this all the way to the reach down here and then we're going to show you how to finish off the wires so I'm now kept calling all the way down that leg and I'll just gently start shaping it into the position I want to sit as well because then now I've reached the very point where the end of my coils meet up with the prom so what I want to do is here attach it as well and also get my way in position so I can finish it off so I'm going to just do first is get some round nose pliers out and just start getting the shape in place so I'm just going to put my pliers in to help make my shape around I'm just going to basically end up end my wire with a bit of a swirl or a circle there I'm just doing this is going to help get it nice and neat so just in place just for now and then this point formula where I have like I said the coils last coil is right where it meets the prong and like I said as well you have that little tiny space still in the prong so I'm going to use that to attach it so it's coming from below in this case below the base wire so I'm going to bring it outside around the prong and then up in between you might have to go the other way around so come down in between the prong that's fine whichever you have to do and then just bring it up make sure that the wire sits ideally kind of just as nice and blended in as possible so when you look from the front hand then from the side you won't really be able to see it much unless you look really closely so I've got that there now so I'm just going to do this just a once that's fine and then go back to continue wrapping and coiling around this wire to be able to finish it off so you just continue then have a look where your Y is going from I'm going to go up through the circle there to make it kind of seamless and then over you can see as well make sure you pull it nice and tight so it sits right against the framework so it's not sticking out too much and then you just want to continue coiling here I'm just going to keep going up in between building those coils wraps all the way around the circle there this is how I like to finish it off like I said you can do whatever you want all the way till basically it meets up where it runs across the other coils that have already made because then I'm going to cut off the base wire so coil some more until it now reached the point where it said where the wire crosses over the previous coil that it runs into so the same wire but just crosses over itself so what want to do first is then get rid of this point four mil wire so get mine in my case I'll just use them a flip flush cutters and I get nice right in there to be able to tuck away the very end because when you cut it off you're going to have a little sharp end of the wire left so I'll get my chain nose by it then just to squeeze the end in and I like to kind of get hold of it and then roll my pliers in the direction that the way is going just so you won't be able to feel any end so feel if you can still feel it you need you just tuck it in a bit more then that's finished off so now I need to finish off the point eight mil so what I'm going to do is just cut this off right before it meets or crosses over the previous coil basically so both you're right where my coiling on this side finishes completely I'm cutting that off and then all I'm going to do is squeeze down this end so the very end of a point eight male visitors just go straight up against itself just like that so the end is not going to be freezer can catch or scratch in anything and then that's how I'm going to finish off all the wires so that one is now finished off and it's nice nice nice and secure and also looks nice compared to how the design in the back is going to look so all you need to do now is base is this for every single leg that you have so you can continue with the other one of the lower level ones finish off the long one first to the bottom and then do the other two just attaching your wire whenever you need to so you just want to finish off all the legs in the same way then all this has to do after that is really just sort out the prongs so I've now finished off all the point eight Miller in the back here as you can see connecting them to the prongs so this whole piece now is nice and secure and it adds a bit of stability and it's also nice and neat there you know as you do where we design you want so all that's left to do now is solder prongs and add that stone as well to the setting so what we need to do first is get these prongs in the right place so I'm going to take my chain nose pliers for this it gets a bit more control and start with one at a time and we need to then spend them so they point upwards so like that keep hold of your whole frame and just do one problem at a time and having stopped them to bend upwards like that you can just do a bit of time because you can always go back and adjust some more take one at a time all the way around here so do this one that way like that and then you can always refer back to the couch as well just put it in see how it looks and see how they fit so I've got spaced around all the prongs there so I can continue bending them up bit Margit little bit tighter so now I'm getting them pretty much to go straight up like I said just do a bit at a time you can always go back again and rather take your time and adjust it as you go then maybe over Ben do and then it's not quite right so they're now all sticking straight up pretty much again let's put the cabochons back in see how that looks so it's definitely a lot tighter now around so all the cabbage all the prongs are almost flush against the Commission's on the side there so you just basically want to keep maneuvering this you can do it getting just a bit tighter but then that's what we need to start bending the tips in as well because that's what's going to hold from the front of the cabochons because obviously if you put this in now you can see it kind of holds in place there but if I were to tip it upside down it's going to fall out as you can see because we have nothing from the front holding it just yet so just like that so what we need to do with that is from each prong there we're going to just go to the very tip so that's what also I like to use my chain nose pliers so just basically this space relatively prone to begin with and just gently Bend that inwards a bit again just a bit of time rather than too much because we can always go back and bend it more just gently bend them inwards because and these are what's going to go just within the sides of the cabochons and hold it in place so like that let's see how it looks and we're going to have to kind of foster sin now snap it in like that and then it's almost there still a bit looser this bit of maneuvering left to do as well still so you just want to keep doing that so again it's going to go back to the tips because that's what i want to just capture more you can go to the bottom all the tips and just gently bend them in a little bit more just a tiny bit at a time those small movements so just when you hit the right spot on each of them it will capture it just right so just gently go all the way around again and now let's try it again so this is just maneuvering both until they're in place I'm just going to snap it in like that and then make sure it's sitting correctly positioned in place and then basically this is held in now because you can see the tips of the prongs are just gently folding in over the edge of the cabochon and that's exactly what we want because that's what's going to cut your in place and now you can do the prongs longer a shot or depending on the thickness of the cabochons like I mentioned earlier well so this is quite they only just go over the edge which I kind of like because it makes it a lot less and what a lot more seamless really it's not so obvious that you have something there to capture the cabochons but if you want to if you feel a bit not so secure that you can always make them a bit longer and I'll just come in just slightly more I'm just going to take out again just for the last maneuvers the prongs which is completely tight and how I want it to be and that should be fine snap it back in place I find that that works best napping it because then the wires kind of snap back into where you place them the prongs but you can also say use something now like the back of your pliers something that's quite soft to help push the prongs against the stone you don't want to only recommend using say the actual pliers to pull because you can end up scraping the wire itself and maybe also even the stone so I recommend using something like the back of your pliers push against it if you want to do that as well so let's conclude up to you just anything to really get the stone in there nice and securely then once it is obviously test it it's not going to come out at all now it's in there nice and securely so this is basically done we have a cabochon nice and set into the prongs and it's holding it nice and securely with the bail so it's completely usable and the extra security on the back as well like I said you can do whatever design you want so this is basically how you do this and it will work for really many different shapes and sizes of cabouchins as well this is just to demonstrate with so that's how you do a prong set cabochons quite simple and easy just when you get the technique right and you don't have to do a whole lot of math but in my opinion just do basic things so I really hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful and thank you very much for watching hello everyone today I'm going to show you how to make these Egyptian style wire work earrings and they look like this so this is kind of hanging from the front they would look like this and they dangle nicely from the ear so kind like hoop earrings so this is the effect that you get all the way around your earrings they're in a set and it's kind of to match the bursar that already made I made this a while back and I got quite a few requests to make earrings to match

Channel: CSLdesigns

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Keywords: Prong Setting, Cabochon (Literature Subject), Prong set cabochon, Prong set wirework cabochon, Cabochon, Wirework, Wirework cabochon, Wire wrapped cabochon, Handmade jewellery, Handmade jewelry, DIY jewellery, DIY jewelry, HowTo, How To, Do It Yourself (Hobby), CSLdesigns

Id: IDp-Q9709Iw

Length: 53min 50sec (3230 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 05 2015