Hi,
I am new to the Pricescope Forums and wish I could afford diamonds but instead I just go with mid priced colored gemstones. I have been into jewelry for years and decided after learning how to bead, glass fuse and wire wrap(which I am not to good at yet but practice make perfect) I would like to try to start prong setting my own gemstones. I recently went to my favorite gem and jewelry show and bought the tool for for gemsetting stones in prongs and my boyfriend who is a mechanic, thank god, had a micrometer so I could measure my stones I bought.....So now I have a few questions on how to get started:
1. Does anyone know any good resoures I could refer too?
2. So I can get started right away (I have measured the gemstones width and length) do I buy a prong setting a little bigger to push in the prong to set the stone or a little smaller to pull out the prong to set? I would think you would want to go bigger because pulling out prong might weaken them but I wanted to ask.
3. Is the V-prong for all different shapes? I have heard it is a great prong setting and very realiable.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks Suzy
I am new to the Pricescope Forums and wish I could afford diamonds but instead I just go with mid priced colored gemstones. I have been into jewelry for years and decided after learning how to bead, glass fuse and wire wrap(which I am not to good at yet but practice make perfect) I would like to try to start prong setting my own gemstones. I recently went to my favorite gem and jewelry show and bought the tool for for gemsetting stones in prongs and my boyfriend who is a mechanic, thank god, had a micrometer so I could measure my stones I bought.....So now I have a few questions on how to get started:
1. Does anyone know any good resoures I could refer too?
2. So I can get started right away (I have measured the gemstones width and length) do I buy a prong setting a little bigger to push in the prong to set the stone or a little smaller to pull out the prong to set? I would think you would want to go bigger because pulling out prong might weaken them but I wanted to ask.
3. Is the V-prong for all different shapes? I have heard it is a great prong setting and very realiable.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks Suzy