Top tips for successful stone setting
By John Shanahan
Ask any experienced jeweler, and they’ll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to put hundreds of stones in their place, time and time again, to be able to reach a point of consistent quality. Along the way, as with any aspect of jewelry creation, that repetition leads to finding personalized tweaks to accepted setting practices, the occasional short cut, and new ways to refine and streamline how things get done.