Simple Sterling Silver Stud Earring - Making in Progress

The making of a pair of simple stud, well.... not really simple, it involved many steps to make it the perfect one. This is only my own way to do it, and there are many many other way by different people. Welcome to give some of your comment for improvement ^.^

Make some half round shape

Arrange it on a straight wire

Apply some flux at the joining part

Put on solder chip at the joining part

Fire until the solder completely melted

The piece

Put in water to cool down

Cut it out according to the shape

File the rough edge

further filing with diamond file

Solder the ear pin

The piece before pickle and sand paper

Pickle the piece to remove flux

Sand paper to make smooth

Polishing in the magnetic tumbler

Finish product

Many many studs ^.^