[Jewelry making - Article 00700] - Re: [Orchid] Model making for pave setting

[Gerald]

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Dear N. Cho and anyone on Orchid!

    The total difference is between night and day, why? After setting
    after casting directly, the sharp, crisp fine cutting is so
    professional looking, it bears to hear gasps of praise from the
    client. If you wish to have just a mediocre result, but not bothering
    to make precision cutting, stick with the "pre-cut" from the wax
    form. This is my "humbled opinion"....:>) 

    As a full time Bright-Cutting setter, I prefer to see diamonds
    sparkle in their own solitary bright walls; not some mass produced
    method to reduce the setting fee. A dollar spent "after casting" is
    well worth the expense of a diamond setter who is adept in doing this
    style of workmanship. I am now doing diamond setting for a very large
    jewellery mfg'ing company in Toronto and my sole responsibility is to
    do only pave'ing and bright-cutting. This is a definite art, not just
    some graver lacking a polished graver along with a modicum of cutting
    knowledge.  Again my humble apologies if I offended any other setter
    who write here! 

    Even graver sharpening is an art, in itself. I give actual seminars
    on how to accomplish this difficult task it is a skill/art! I have 5
    so far in 2005 this year, just on the "Skill of Bright-Cutting". 

    When the actual bright-cutting is executed, the gold need not to be
    fully polished, why? it reduces the sharp crisp beads to unholy stumps
    of metal. I have seen this all too often and I cringe at the sight and
    feel my labours have been diminished. Bright-Cutting is to be left
    alone and not disturbed! 

    I feel the "polishing expert" must just maintain the lustre of the
    setters skill. Polishing after setting must be only a light rouge,
    nuttin else! ....Why milgrain? it only covers up the beautiful design
    we setters are trying to portray. It delineates the finished
    composition of melding of diamonds, gold, and the streamline affect
    of cutting. 

    If my many words allow some form of understanding what is needed,
    then N.Cho you might have learned what "I/we" are trying to
    do...thanks...eh! Gerry, the Cyber-Setter! 


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