Cleaning your 'ring top' settings => 8 photos

 I've been displaying the same photos of my creations. Each time, I would use different explanations based on these topics.                                                      ==================================

 These holes are still to be drilled through for stone setting. I would prefer to do the actual drilling when the ring top is in metal. In wax, there could be problems when dealing with ultra-soft wax.

 

  I always prefer to add 'extra sprues' when working with new rings. These need to have the metal flow into deeper recesses of the ring.
 This photo shows why I used a 'split-sprue' layout.

 Any wax contacts that are connecting to a ring top should not interfere with the pattern. You can see that I've added more 'joining wax sprues' to the rear of the ring-top pattern.

 You can now see that no sprue is interfering with the basic design.

 Clean up any residual wax that is remaining. If the wax is like this, 'messy and mediocre' in its application...STOP and start again!!!

 There are still a few remnants of wax lingering in many of the setting holes. BE GENTLE WITH THE WAX.

 That is exactly why 'drilling in the metal' is best under these delicate circumstances.

 I used a '3-toothed' bur that is just fantastic in opening up the hole. This hole is where the 4-claw post will be inserted after metal casting.