Making Rings

Learn how to make jewelry rings in no time. Making rings is a great introduction to metalsmithing and silversmithing techniques in the jewelry studio. This resource page will connect you with tutorial articles to get started along with all the materials and supplies required.

We sell everything you need to make beautiful, eye-catching rings, whether you're soldering sterling silver ring bands from raw material or using ready-made sterling silver ring findings to save time. Try our ring making kit if you are a beginner.

Making bands has a variety of uses, from creating rings for the stacking trend to making custom bands for your stone settings. Our pattern and fancy wires give you a number of options.

To make a ring from scratch, you join shaped wire material into a loop using soldering. Then, you round out the loop to a perfect ring shape that is ready to wear. You will need to know a number of techniques to measure, cut, prepare, solder and form your metal material to become a ring.

To make a ring band, use half round, low dome or flat jewelry wire. You can choose from plain wire material or fancy pattern wires for your band design. The ring band can be worn alone or used as the foundational building block in a more complex ring design featuring ornamental motifs, gemstones or other embellishments. Try our ring making kit!

If you are new to soldering, we recommend that you visit our jewelry soldering resource page after you browse this information on ring making.

People love spinner rings, which are made of an inner band that stays stationary and an outer band that spins loosely around it. This type of fidget jewelry is popular with customers and fun for makers to explore.

Our pattern sheet and wire make beautiful spinner rings. This is a good project to tackle once you have mastered making simple bands. Spinner ring fabrication brings in more complex soldering and forming techniques.

Adding Stone Settings To Your Rings

Prong stone settings make it easy to create sterling silver rings with calibrated stones using ring shanks and settings. You can solder prong setting heads onto jewelry making rings to create custom designs or purchase sterling silver ring blanks with empty settings attached to them for quick cabochon or faceted stone setting.

Our ring collection also includes sterling silver ring making supplies for easily setting stones in smooth bezel settings. The only tools you need for this style of stone setting are a ring mandrel and bezel roller. The bezel ring settings are suitable for calibrated stones in a variety of sizes.

Use our bezel strip wire and gallery wire for custom stone setting. To find how much wire to purchase, wrap a string tightly around your stone. Overlap the ends by 2-3mm (to account for filing) and mark it with a permanent marker. Measure the string to determine the necessary length.