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Stone Setting – Setting Square Cabochon Part Four

January 19th, 2012

		Part Four Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners. The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Part Four

Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners.

The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Stone Setting – Setting Square Cabochon Part Three

December 30th, 2011

		Part Three Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners. The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Part Three

Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners.

The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Stone Setting – Setting Square Cabochon Part Two

December 15th, 2011

		Part Two Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners. The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Part Two

Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners.

The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Stone Setting – Setting Square Cabochon Part One

December 2nd, 2011

		Part One Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners. The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Part One

Oval and round cabochons are fairly straight forward to set, but what about square or stones with straight sides? Bezel setting a stone with corners is somewhat more difficult because if it isn’t done properly the excess metal puckers at the corners.

The techniques involved with making a bezel is technical depending on the stone. Does it have sharp crisp corners or are they slightly rounded? Andrew realises that his original idea to make the bezel is not needed as a quick and simple technique seems to work better with this type of stone. The setting is then made up into a simple style ring.

Making Settings – Pear Shape Wire Setting 6

October 27th, 2011

		Part Six When the general public purchase mass produced items of jewellery, the last thing they think about is the quality of the manufacturing. When a client of Andrew’s came in to the shop one day with a stunning pear shaped Blue Topaz stone pendant, she wanted to know if the mount could be repaired. One look at it and Andrew immediately saw that the gold was so brittle and there where several cracks all over the gold mount. This brittleness was due to poor casting. Something that Andrew’s client had not even noticed at the time of purchase. The only thing that Andrew could do was to scrap the original gold mount and handcraft a brand new setting for the stone.

Part Six

When the general public purchase mass produced items of jewellery, the last thing they think about is the quality of the manufacturing.

When a client of Andrew’s came in to the shop one day with a stunning pear shaped Blue Topaz stone pendant, she wanted to know if the mount could be repaired. One look at it and Andrew immediately saw that the gold was so brittle and there where several cracks all over the gold mount.

This brittleness was due to poor casting. Something that Andrew’s client had not even noticed at the time of purchase. The only thing that Andrew could do was to scrap the original gold mount and handcraft a brand new setting for the stone.

Making Your Own Settings – Tube Settings Part 3

September 29th, 2011

		Final Part In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’. Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

Final Part

In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’.

Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

Stone Setting – Solitaire Stone Setting Part 2

September 16th, 2011

		Part Two Over the past few months Andrew has been demonstrating how to make your own settings and ring shanks. In these two films Andrew demonstrates how to set stones into these settings. The ability to make your own settings is a skill that once you have mastered will come in very handy should a client bring you an odd shaped stone that is not of a stock size and once that you can not obtain a ready made setting.

Part Two

Over the past few months Andrew has been demonstrating how to make your own settings and ring shanks.

In these two films Andrew demonstrates how to set stones into these settings. The ability to make your own settings is a skill that once you have mastered will come in very handy should a client bring you an odd shaped stone that is not of a stock size and once that you can not obtain a ready made setting.

Making Your Own Settings – Tube Settings Part 2

September 9th, 2011

		Part Two of Three In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’. Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

Part Two of Three

In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’.

Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

Stone Setting – Solitaire Stone Setting Part 1

September 9th, 2011

		Part One Over the past few months Andrew has been demonstrating how to make your own settings and ring shanks. In these two films Andrew demonstrates how to set stones into these settings. The ability to make your own settings is a skill that once you have mastered will come in very handy should a client bring you an odd shaped stone that is not of a stock size and once that you can not obtain a ready made setting.

Part One

Over the past few months Andrew has been demonstrating how to make your own settings and ring shanks.

In these two films Andrew demonstrates how to set stones into these settings. The ability to make your own settings is a skill that once you have mastered will come in very handy should a client bring you an odd shaped stone that is not of a stock size and once that you can not obtain a ready made setting.

Making Your Own Settings – Tube Settings Part 1

September 1st, 2011

		Part One of Three In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’. Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

Part One of Three

In this three part series, Andrew looks at setting round stones into tubing, often called ‘tube setting’.

Like with all aspects of setting, obtaining the correct size setting, in this case tubing, is vitally important. Andrew shows you how to choose the right wall thickness tubing and also what to do if you don’t have the correct sized setting burr to exactly fit the stone you are setting.

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