Gemstone is beautiful, affordable and attractive, thus many people want to choose gemstone jewelry to enhance their beauty and elegance. Nowadays, gemstone as a kind of jewelry is become more and more popular with fashionable people. However, when they have own some gemstones, the next thing which hovers in their mind is how to set loose gemstones which they like very much and unwilling to damage it.
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How to set loose gemstones
2010-08-13 09:52:18
Many people tend to set their loose gemstones by the professional jewelers, but you can also set them by yourself. Here I will show you some ways, with which you can find in fact it is not hard to set a loose gemstone.
The first thing you should do is to decide the size of the gemstone that you want to set, which includes the width, length and depth and then you should note them. Then the gems should be placed in a prong-style setting, and make sure it is well seated between the prongs. Then you should prepare 2 pliers, which is an avoided tool. It can be used to tighten the prongs. One should be placed on the
on the first prong, and the other near the base of the opposite prong. The next step you can do is to use your strength; you should press in order to close the first prong against the stone. On the opposite prong, this should be repeated. If necessary, this process can last a long time. The more the strength you use, the more tighten the loose gemstone. The last thing is to check whether stone is secure in the setting, when you make sure that they have already be tighten, you can finish your job, once you make out that the quality can not be ensured, you should do again following the above steps.
From this article, we can see set loose gemstones is not difficult as we think, you can do this thing for yourself or even for others.
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