Showing posts with label stone setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stone setting. Show all posts
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Class at GRS soon
I'll be going to Emporia, Kansas in about a week and a half for the Advanced Stone Setting Class with Blaine Lewis at the GRS Training Center. I'm really looking forward to it. I've wanted to take that class for a few years.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Class at the GRS Training Center
I'm taking the Refined Stone Setting class at the GRS Training Center this summer in Emporia, Kansas. I have been wanting to take this class for a long time. I took a basic engraving class there in summer 2006 and enjoyed it. I heard classes there are really popular and this stone setting class is only offered once a year, so I called to register right at 8am on the day registration started to be sure I could get in. I checked their website a few hours later and the class was full. I'm looking forward to this class.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
back at the bench
I've been back at the bench for the past week. After the first awkward day things came back to me pretty quickly. Soldering seems to be coming back rather slowly though. I was gone over 5 years total but it has been even longer since I did many jewelry repairs with the torch since every place I have worked since 2004 has had a laser welder. There is a laser welder at my new job, but still the torch is better for some things.
The only stone setting I have done so far has been prong setting two round faceted stones and bezel setting a faceted stone.
The prong setting felt very awkward. Felt like I was doing it for the first time. I just couldn't remember how I used to bur a level seat for the stones. In the end they were set ok.
I didn't do the entire bezel setting. My boss started it and had the bezel partially hammered down before he had to do something else and I took over. I finished hammering it and cleaned it up. The bezel setting felt ok, aside from being a bit nervous cause the stone was a tanzanite.
I am going to try to make 2017 about learning and improving. Especially my bench jeweler skills. I am hoping to improve my stone setting beyond where I was before I went to Korea. I could do most settings well enough, but some I was not confident with, especially channel setting and pave. I had learned how to do both of them but I never had much practice.
The only stone setting I have done so far has been prong setting two round faceted stones and bezel setting a faceted stone.
The prong setting felt very awkward. Felt like I was doing it for the first time. I just couldn't remember how I used to bur a level seat for the stones. In the end they were set ok.
I didn't do the entire bezel setting. My boss started it and had the bezel partially hammered down before he had to do something else and I took over. I finished hammering it and cleaned it up. The bezel setting felt ok, aside from being a bit nervous cause the stone was a tanzanite.
I am going to try to make 2017 about learning and improving. Especially my bench jeweler skills. I am hoping to improve my stone setting beyond where I was before I went to Korea. I could do most settings well enough, but some I was not confident with, especially channel setting and pave. I had learned how to do both of them but I never had much practice.
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