Settings: The stones in jewelry must be securely attached to the jewelry metal. The main techniques used are: ...
Setting Boundaries
The first belief one has to get over in order to set boundaries is that it's cruel and heartless to set them.
Bar setting
Bar settings are constructed from short bars that run like a railway track across the jewelry. Gemstones are individually set between these bars leaving the sides of the gemstones exposed to light.
Pave setting
The best way to compromise the quality with your lower budget is the Pave setting. Small pieces are paved inside the setting.
Claw Setting
Claw setting is accomplished by cutting prongs into or soldering them to the outside of a collet or bezel.
Pavé Setting
Pavé setting (PAH-VEY) is an enchanting choice for engagement and wedding rings. For a distinct and glamorous look, a large center stone is usually complimented with smaller diamonds.
Pavé Setting
When the surface of a ring appears to be covered with tiny diamonds, the technique is called Pavé which means paved. It's an apt name because the surface looks a bit like a very pretty street paved with cobblestones.
Carré Settings
A Carré setting is where the stone is seated directly over a light well (above, right), and the stone is set by raising (hammering) four "spurs" with a "graver" tool.
Tension Settings ...
Channel Setting Helper
When channel setting stones, to help keep the gems in place while hammering or burnishing, sticky wax can become your helper. After putting stones in place, drag a bit of sticky wax across the stone toward the channel wall.
Jewelry Settings
Gem Hut features jewelry settings to fit many of our gemstones.
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BAR SETTING:
Gem stone or diamond setting between two parallel bars where the sides of the gems are left open. This maximizes the amount of light entering the gems, which usually creates extraordinary brilliance and sparkle.
A pavé setting is the essential covering of the entire surface of the ring by tiny diamonds. It looks almost like paved gravel, hence the name pavé. The pave setting takes a lot of effort; as the ring slims at the sides, the diamonds should also slim.
A fancy setting with diamond sidestones adds an extra sparkle to your ring, complementing your center stone. The sidestones are set evenly with the band in a channel setting, bar setting or with prongs.
Choose a Setting
Solitaire: The most popular setting for a diamond engagement ring. Simple and classic. Features one centrally placed diamond typically held in place by prongs.
Know Your Stone Settings
Diamond jewelry shines even brighter with the right stone setting. Learn about your stone setting choices and select the right diamond jewelry to match your personal style.
Estimating Weights of Gemstones in Jewelry Settings
Here are some useful formulas for estimating the weight of stones in settings, where the stones cannot be removed for accurate weighing.
Many of the best dealers (like the ones in our Dealer Ratings) offer excellent prices on settings as well as loose diamonds. The only problem with this is seeing the setting before you buy, since online photos are not enough.
Creative Cold Connections - Setting a Stone with no Soldering
by Tim McCreight - © Lapidary Journal - 2005
Photo of finished piece by Frank DeSantis; all other photos courtesy of the author.
SETTING
A setting is a method of securing a stone (or other ornament) in a piece of jewelry (or other object).
Setting
The mount in which a gemstone is set in a finger ring, pendant, brooch, etc. The method in which a stone (or stones) is secured in a finger ring, either by a close setting or an open setting, in contrast to the method of incrustation.
Setting Fancy Colour Diamonds
When choosing a setting for a fancy colour diamond, it is best to choose a setting material that will enhance the natural colour of your diamond.
Setting the Standard
While imitation systems exist, Mikimoto literally sets the standard for grading the quality of cultured pearls.
The Mikimoto pearl grading scale illustrates the system, with AAA representing the very highest quality.
Setting: Setting is the general term for the way a diamond or gemstone attached to the piece of jewelry.
Shank: The part of the ring that encircles the finger. Strictly speaking, the shank of the ring does not include the head.
Setting: The part of the jewelry into which stones are set. Also refers to the mechanism used to hold the stones in place, such as the bezel, pave', channel, and prong settings.
Shakudo: a Japanese metal alloy composed of copper and gold.
Setting
There are many different methods of setting stones in jewelry. Here are the most common and widely used methods.
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Setting the stones
The production process might vary from one design to another, but after the jewelry was cast and prepared, it went to a stonesetter, ...
setting
The method of securing a gemstone to a piece of jewellery, usually metallic. There are nummerous kinds of settings, inlcuding arcade, bezel, channel, coronet, collet, chaton, and pave ...
Setting
A mounting or the portion of a mounting which actually holds the stone.
Stability
The ability of a gemstone to resist deterioration.
Setting
The mounting or base in which crystals, rhinestones, or other jewelry components are set.
Shank ...
Setting: Setting or mounting specifically refers to the portion that actually holds the stone as opposed to the rest of the jewelry item it is attached to.
Setting - A setting is simply a jewelry piece that holds stones in place.
Shank - On a ring, the shank is the part that circles the finger.
Bar Setting: Similar to a channel setting, it is a circular band of diamonds or gemstones that holds each stone in by a long thin bar, shared between two stones.
BOX SETTING: A stone enclosed in a box-shaped setting with edges of metal pressed down to hold it in place. Sometimes referred to as a "Gypsy" mounting.
Bar Setting
In this style of setting, gemstones are individually set between these bars leaving the sides of the stones exposed to light.
Box setting - this type of setting holds a stone in place in a box shape with metal edges which are pressed down to hold the stone in place.
Pavé setting -
A setting technique for small diamonds in which the stones are set so closely together that no metal shows. A pavé surface appears to be paved with diamonds.
Solitaire - ...
Pave setting - A setting in which small stones are set as close as possible, so that the piece literally looks "paved" with stones
Pearl - A smooth, round growth formed naturally within the shell of a mollusc and used as a gem ...
Bar Setting
A setting, similar to a split bezel setting, wherein two bars hold either side of a gemstone in place.
Baroque ...
Pave setting-
Pave setting is an apt choice if bold design and huge ring are your priorities. The close layout of diamonds creates an illusion of one big diamond and also gives the impression of size.
Illusion setting- ...
Pave Setting The method of setting stones very close together so that very little metal shows between them. My wedding set is a pave style. In the right light, it has quite the bling! ...
Pave setting
A setting in which small stones are set as close as possible, so that the piece literally looks "paved" with stones.
Pearl ...
Claw Setting: A way of securing a stone in its mount using small prongs that surround it.
STAR SETTING
A star setting is one in which a gem is set within an engraved star; the gem is secured by a small grain of metal soldered tp the base of each ray of the star. This type of setting was popular in the 1890s.
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Bezel Setting
A method of setting gemstones in which the stone is held in the mounting by a narrow band of metal, which surrounds the girdle (outside perimeter) of the stone.
GIPSY SETTING
The gipsy setting is a recessed setting in which the stone is sunk into the metal. There are often engraved designs around the stone (especially star patterns).
Bezel Setting
A basic setting used mainly to set cabochons. The stone is placed onto a base plate, framed by perpendicular wall, which is pressed over a stone to hold it securely in place.
Bezel Setting
A bezel setting is a way of setting a stone in which the stone is held by a band of metal around the outside of the stone.
Gipsy Setting
Gipsy Setting is a style of setting where the stone is placed into the metal.
Girdle
Girdle is the wide perimeter of a stone made up from the edges.
Gypsy setting: A setting in which the surface of the mount is virtually flush with the top of the gemstone.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
Gypsy setting
A setting in which the stone is sunk into the surrounding metal leaving the top of the stone almost level with the top of the metal surface ...
*Placesetting - any formal configuration of merchandise sold as a package to serve one person - generally refers to dinnerware or flatware.
Side Setting Styles:
Baguette - A simple, rectangular cut, primarily in diamonds, sapphires and rubies, used to flank different shape central stones.
Bar - A setting style where each stone is held in by a bar, shared between two stones.
CHATON SETTING
A chaton setting (also called coronet or arcade setting) is one in which the stone is held in by many metal claws around a metal ring.
CHATOYANCY ...
Burnish setting - When the gemstone is held in place without the use of prongs or beads and is set flush with the setting's surface.
Jewelry Settings
Settings are what hold the diamonds, gemstones, pearls and other components in place on our jewelry. Settings can be decorative or they can be purely functional.
Channel setting - A setting where stones are inlaid into grooves in the metal. Usually a number of uniformly sized small stones are set in a row
Charm - A decorative pendant or trinket to be worn on a bracelet, necklace or earring ...
channel setting - A type of stone setting often used in mounting a number of small stones of uniform size in a row as in a diamond wedding ring.
Channel Setting: A thin row of precious metal is used to secure diamonds or gemstones in a continuous line.
Chasing: A form of elaborate relief engraving done since antiquity.
COLLET SETTING
A collet setting is a very early method of setting gemstones. A collet is a thin, round band of metal that goes all around the stone.
Setting
A term used for fixing the stones to the piece of jewelry. There are many setting techniques (pave, prong, bezel, channel, Invisible, gypsy, tension). For details go to our section setting details.
 See also: Jewel, Stone, Jewelry, Diamond, Gemstone
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