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Sterling silver and 22k gold ring with rutilated quartz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0 Cabachons are generally considered easy to set but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few pitfalls.\u00a0 A 1\/3 to 2\/3rds rule is what we use when we get ready to set. One third of the stone in the bezel and two thirds of the stone outside the bezel.\u00a0 This proportion will normally work very well.\u00a0 However, if the sides of the stone don’t slope much and are more vertical then you would want to put a little more than one third of the stone inside the bezel.\u00a0 A vertical surface is much more difficult for the bezel to hold onto than a slope which is biggest at the bottom.\u00a0 The second and more problematic issue students run into is when there stone is a bit curved on the bottom.\u00a0 There is an easy setting solution for this but the main problem is that students often don’t pay attention to the bottom of the stone.\u00a0 Then when they start setting, the stone won’t stop rocking and they can’t understand why.\u00a0 Stone cutting has improved dramatically over the last 20 years but you will certainly still find stones cut this way.\u00a0 This way of cutting maximizes the stones end weight which is good for the cutter.\u00a0 It may also have been done to maximize color saturation in the stone.\u00a0 Now to the easy solution.\u00a0 You fit a fine silver wire inside the perimeter of the bezel.\u00a0 You choose the thickness of your wire\u00a0depending on the depth of the belly to hold the belly up and off the bottom of your bezel.\u00a0 Your wire is just an inner bezel and you can then just set normally.\u00a0 A very simple solution.\u00a0 The main thing is to notice that you need it.\u00a0 Laurie did a wonderful job here following these guidelines. \u00a0Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week-Laurie Grossman.\u00a0 Her ring is sterling silver and 22k gold and her stone is rutilated quartz.\u00a0 There was a bit of a challenge in setting the stone so I thought we might discuss some of the elements of setting cabochons. \u00a0 Cabachons are generally considered easy to set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}