Here are a few photos of unfinished pieces of rough castings. My client only wanted me to determine how many diamonds would be needed in these rings and bracelets.
This particular item was a bangle bracelet and it had to be placed upon a shellac stick for the stone setting.
The posts that are seen here will be saved for 2 Pearls.
In this ring, there would be 2 large Pearls mounted on the posts.
The Baguette stones were an 'afterthought' in the design and gemstone setting. I had to deal with what I was given.
This delicate setting had a (pale) Blue Topaz and diamonds were mounted into the claws. The method that I thought of was to "pre-drill the tip of the claws" for the large semi-precious stone.
Once the stone was very carefully set, I gently set the 'prepared diamond area' near the tip of the 4 claws after the Blue Stone was in the ring.
In this photo, you can see how mediocre the quality of the diamonds that I had to deal with. They were of SI-2 at best and the stone was <6.0 on the "Mohs Scale of Softness".
I had to 'Pre-Polish' the metal and then set the large stone very carefully afterwards.
This multitude of bright & shiny partly drilled holes was my client's idea. I frowned upon this method as the labour involved was extra setting fees. He chose to make his labour in a diamond setting as inexpensive as possible.
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