PURPOSE: To produce a setter which surely supports an unwrought article to be carried during a sintering stage by imparting a behavior to adapt itself to the shrinkage behaviors of the unwrought article to be sintered and to shrink at the same degree as the shrinkage degree of the unwrought article to the unwrought article.

CONSTITUTION: This process is for production of the setter which surely supports the unwrought article carried therein during the sintering stage. This setter is produced from powder material containing a binder by the ensuing stages. a) The powder material is packed into a green mold; b) the powder material is press molded in the closed green mold to form a green compact; c) the press molded green compact is taken out of the green mold; d) the green compact is presintered to form an unfinished item and 1) this unfinished item is subjected to machining to form finished goods. Since the unwrought article to be sintered consists of the material having the different shrinkage behaviors, the production parameters of this time are changed to be individually adapted to the respective unwrought articles to be sintered. As a result, the free use of the setters having a wide range of co-shrinkability adaptable to the respective fields of use is made possible and the setter for surely supporting the unwrought article is produced.