Advanced Stone Setting
Add Creativity and Quality to Setting Skills
Course Description
The innovative and refined setting techniques taught in this hands-on class can dramatically improve craftsmanship, reduce fragile stone breakage and build a substantially rewarding future as a top bench jeweler.
This is an intense course for intermediate jewelers with new concepts, tools and techniques revealed every day.
Learning Objectives
- Introduce tools used during the course
- Tool making and graver sharpening
- Flush and prong setting techniques for round diamond and colored stones
- Prong setting fancies: Princess, Marquis, Pear, Emerald, and Baguette cuts
- Channel setting: Rounds, Princess cut, and inlaid channel
- Bezel setting ovals
- Invisible settings: Grooved Princess cuts
- Bead setting and pavé: Bead and bright cut, thread setting, pavé, and advanced pavé
- Creating the 10-stone pavé cluster
- Flush setting tools and techniques
- Gypsy setting cabochons
- Final individual projects
Prerequisites
The applicant must have prior stone setting experience. For additional information, contact a GRS representative.
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