REVIEW - Where were the smallest diamonds I set? - 28 photos

 To put this in perspective, if 100 of these diamonds were used they equalled 1 carat, these would be still too large. These diamonds were all held in place with ONLY 2 MINI-CLAWS. This was a mind-numbing & eye straining project.

This Level of Difficulty was indeed '15+ out of 10'.

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 I was told by my client "DON'T DRILL THROUGH THE METAL (bracelet holes) FOR ANY OF THE STONE SETTING". This caused me to have additional problems during the 'intense' setting process.

 THIS IS BASICALLY A "PICTORIAL ESSAY" WITH LITTLE FANFARE OF TEXTING.

 

 Do you want (or inclined) to count the number of stones that were used? I had 'extra' diamonds because of the uneven sizes that were required.

 The outside row of stones were slightly larger. If one claw broke off, this where major soldering for repairing took place. Thankfully nothing went wrong.

  I used a "156C" Carbide, (undercutting bur) these burs created a seat inside each of the mini-claws. The size of each bur matched the size of every stone.

 The small round bur was used just to make space for the Culet of each stone.

  I used a shellac stick to enable me to hold many diamond links for setting.

 In this photo you can see that the Culet will be free from any metal as it's going into claw openings.

 

  Once that the setting has been cleared away then came the "156C" burring. 

 I held the 156C bur almost perpendicular, as I wanted to drill out the required 'holding-claws' at the same time.

 The outside row of diamonds were somewhat larger, my main concern was to keep these diamonds 'saved' for these rows of setting.

  This was just one diamond that I saved just for this photograph. This was one diamond out of 950 stones.