Step by Step Process

Dmitriy Pavlov is an un­matched artist, who has mastered his own tech­nique of hand pier­cing and en­grav­ing in 30 years of gold­smith craft and jew­elry design. Dmitriy takes every step of the pro­cess of cre­ation on his own, and he even uses cus­tom self-de­signed tools and tech­niques for sev­er­al of the steps. In the end, we al­ways see a work fas­cin­at­ing in form and flaw­less in ex­e­cu­tion. Learn more about how Dmitriy Pavlov cre­ates his beau­ti­ful en­gage­ment rings.

	Step 1: Strip Drilling. The first step of en­grav­ing is the met­al strip drilling. The met­al strip, with pre-drawn design pat­tern, is pierced with the finest drills with dia­met­er of 0.3-0.5 mm. Of­ten, the space between the scrolls is so small, that the hole ac­tu­ally touches the scrolls. This pro­cess out­lines the design of the ring.
	Step 2: Strip Pier­cing. The finest saw blades 0.18-0.21 mm are used for pier­cing. This step is com­monly done un­der a mi­cro­scope to en­sure ut­most pre­ci­sion. After pier­cing the met­al strip, the in­ner side of each hole is pol­ished and burn­ished with the dull back side of the saw blade.
	Step 3: Strip Bend­ing. The met­al strip with pierced scrolls is bent to form a closed ring. In or­der to pre­serve the fine and fra­gile scrolls from tear­ing apart, a lead block, man­drel, and a raw­hide mal­let are used for ac­cur­ate shap­ing.
	Step 4: Ring Sol­der­ing. After bend­ing and shap­ing, the ring is sol­dered. Only hard sol­ders are used in this pro­cess for ob­tain­ing the max­im­al strength of the joint. Now the blank is ready for en­grav­ing.
	Step 5: Ring En­grav­ing. A mi­cro­scope and spe­cial pro­file gravers are used for en­grav­ing. Each scroll is en­graved to its greatest pos­sible depth, some scrolls are 1.3 mm deep! By the end of this pro­cess, the sur­face of each scroll looks like a smooth con­cave mir­ror.
	Step 6: Ring Pol­ish­ing. Only a light pol­ish­ing is re­quired now in or­der to have the whole ring sparkle as one dia­mond cut gem, visu­ally blur­ring the bor­ders between the met­al and the ac­tu­al gem, and cre­at­ing an ef­fect of one large dia­mond. The pol­ish­ing is done by the finest pol­ish­ing com­pound which helps to boost the nat­ur­al shine of the met­al.
	Step 7: Minor Gems Set­ting. The minor gems 1-2.5 mm are usu­ally set in carved bezels, rather than sol­dered-in. This pre­vents cre­ation of pronged bumps on the ex­ter­i­or and lat­er­al parts of the ring, and makes the ring com­fort­able for every day wear.
	Step 8: Prong Head Sol­der­ing. The prong head is sol­dered on top of the ring. This is the only ele­ment that is not a part of the ori­gin­al met­al strip. The pur­pose of the prong head is to hold a large cent­ral dia­mond, and make it look even big­ger than it is.
	Step 9: Main Gem Set­ting. The set­ting of the main gem­stone, a large 0.6-ct white dia­mond in this par­tic­u­lar ring, is usu­ally the last step of the ring cre­ation. After the fi­nal pol­ish and fin­ish, the ring is com­pleted.
	Com­pleted Ring. This is how the com­pleted ring looks like. Please feel free to con­tact our boutique, if you have more ques­tions about the pro­duc­tion pro­cess, or if would like to or­der this beau­ti­ful ring.