How to mount a gemstone?

Question

I am interested in making some jewelry. I found a site where you can buy loose stones and empty mountings (like rings). But I can't find anything that says how you do it. Do you just use plyers or is heating required? Someone with experience please help. Thank you.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Try to find snap tite settings. You just place the stone flat side down and the setting "snaps" over it. Pre-notched settings also work well and tend to be a little heavier and more secure. You place the stone in the setting and then push the prongs down in an X pattern with a prong pusher or needle nose pliers. It's also pretty easy. Topako mercantile has a web site that sells the settings and has instructions how to set stones. If you buy more than $50, you get a discount. Good luck!

Answer 3

It depends. You can buy mountings that are pre-drilled for the stone to be seated. The ones that arent require a hand drill, like a Dremel or a Foredom Flexshaft, excellent hand eye coordination, and some experience. You have to drill the angles on the mounting to match the angles on the stone for it to seat properly and securely. The ones that are pre-drilled are easier. Just be careful when you are pushing the prongs over or you can damage the stone.

Answer 4

Hard stones like Dimounds, & some stones the ring is formed around the stone when it is cast. A jewler uses lighted magnifing glass & little heat from a small torch soldering tool, you can buy @ any hardware store, Gold is really soft & easy to bend, so it sound like you could just use pliers, but put some duck tape over the end, so they don't scratch. Jewlers use exspencive pliers with plastic incerts. A little vice would make thing easyer too

Answer 5

Turn the left stirrup around. Facing the rear of the stone, put your left foot in the stirrup. Boost yourself up, with the aid of your hand on the saddle horn. Once upright, turn, lifting the right leg up and over the gem, seating yourself squarely in the saddle. Position your right foot in the stirrup.

Mounting an English stone is similar, replacing stirrups with irons and pommel for saddle horn.

Note to "blind_wood_carver": A little vice ALWAYS makes things easier, but a little vise might be more useful, in this case.

Answer 6

Heating is required or else you will break the prongs.

Honestly, this is one of those things where if you want it done right, you need to have a jeweler do it for you.

If you want info on becoming a jeweler here's a links:
http://www.iseek.org/sv/13000.jsp?id=100350

Answer 7

go to jewelry maker to mount the stones

Answer 8

Let a professional jeweler do it for you.

Answer 9

better to see a goldsmiths