2 Successful Stone Setting Tips2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

Intermediate Stone Setting

2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

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Ask any experienced jeweler, and they’ll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to put hundreds of stones in their place, time and time again, to be able to reach a point of consistent quality.

Along the way, as with any aspect of jewelry creation, that repetition leads to finding personalized tweaks to accepted setting practices, the occasional short cut, and new ways to refine and streamline how things get done.

Sometimes, you might even share them.

We asked a handful of jewelers for their tips, best practices, and solid advice on a number of stone-setting types. Gary Dawson, owner of Gary Dawson Designs in Eugene, Oregon, starts us off with a bit of wisdom to keep in mind for any setting job: “Treat every gem like its own setting job. No matter how standardized each situation seems, it’s always different. And if you approach it that way, you’ll have consistently better results.”

Now on to the tips.

Bezel Setting

When it comes to bezels, David Phelps, owner of John David Jewelers in Durham, North Carolina, has an interesting take on stone setting. According to him, almost all setting is a variation of bezel



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