Bezel and PEAR light performance

[Niel]

I was seriously considering changing my pear to a bezel setting but am concerned about light performance. I know there are some already answered posts about it but they were mainly referencing RB. My pear by nature has considerably more light leakage so I'm wondering how the light performance for a pear would do

 

[Gypsy]

Get some aluminum foil and bezel it and see what you think.

 

[Karl_K]

Pears in general draw a lot of light from lower angles so you do not want a high bezel over the stone, just one that barely comes up over the girdle.
It can also darken leakage areas so the above suggestion is a good one but unless the are large it wont have a huge effect.

 

[chrono]

I would do the foil test to simulate a bezel setting to see if your pear is a good candidate for a bezel setting.

 

[Circe]

I have a bezeled pear: I never wore it in any other type of setting, but I spent an awful lot of time playing with it loose, and checking it out in prongs unset. My advice echoes Karl's, with the additional caveat that your setting not cover too much of the pavilion, either: my pear looked awfully dull for the first few months I had it, because the setting at the back was trapping dirt and giving it an unfortunate "ring around the collar" effect. Now? Glittery as glittery can be, and it looks huge. A win all around, I think.

 

[Niel]

How do I know the bezel I am picking doesnt do those things?

 

[Rockdiamond]

How do I know the bezel I am picking doesnt do those things?

That is the $100,000 question!!

As much as pretend bezels might tell us, the actual metal bezel made by a jeweler will be the only definite answer. There's a tremendous amount of difference from one bench to the next.
As an overall answer: my experience is light performance is affected ANY time a stone bezel set.
There are trade- offs involved in any setting method.