PhillipSchmidt
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What are the pro''s and con''s of pre-set jewellery?
This is where the stones are set in wax and cast in place. It has been used lately to make a degree of high quality jewellery.
I have seen a lot of baguettes and princess cuts fitting squarely since I returned to Melbourne, all coming from Asia. The workmanship looks good and often better then the local equivalent more hand-on, but less industrial approach.
It makes me beg the question:
It is better to pre-set or set normally (which obviously takes a lot longer)?
I for one, don''t see how they can supply a polished seat when the diamond has been cast in place.
The same goes for grain setting techniques like pave''. Surely the extra polish under the seat is worth something. How about cleaning the grainy gold under the seat after the few months since it has been worn - it must hold a lot of dirt.
On the other hand, the grains are always perfectly in place and they can offer expensive techniques cheaply, to a good affect!.
All I have ever seen being made (to date) was cheap jewellery produced this way and the manufacturers were not too keen on risking a good diamond to the casting process, but with the high quality jewellery like this around today it all leaves me wondering???
It is so widely used, I don''t know what to think. I imagine somewbody here has a more educated oppinion then mine.
Cheers,
Phillip
This is where the stones are set in wax and cast in place. It has been used lately to make a degree of high quality jewellery.
I have seen a lot of baguettes and princess cuts fitting squarely since I returned to Melbourne, all coming from Asia. The workmanship looks good and often better then the local equivalent more hand-on, but less industrial approach.
It makes me beg the question:
It is better to pre-set or set normally (which obviously takes a lot longer)?
I for one, don''t see how they can supply a polished seat when the diamond has been cast in place.
The same goes for grain setting techniques like pave''. Surely the extra polish under the seat is worth something. How about cleaning the grainy gold under the seat after the few months since it has been worn - it must hold a lot of dirt.
On the other hand, the grains are always perfectly in place and they can offer expensive techniques cheaply, to a good affect!.
All I have ever seen being made (to date) was cheap jewellery produced this way and the manufacturers were not too keen on risking a good diamond to the casting process, but with the high quality jewellery like this around today it all leaves me wondering???
It is so widely used, I don''t know what to think. I imagine somewbody here has a more educated oppinion then mine.
Cheers,
Phillip
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