[Jewelry making - Article 00623] - Re: [Orchid] Small stones Flush setting

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Hey Todd,

    i just got back from the Blaine Lewis advanced setting course,  did
    you go out there?  if you did not sign up today and get out there. i
    have been setting for 18 years, and i have increased my setting speed
    30%, no s..t  it is worth every penny i spent, my two employees are
    going there in july for the setting 1 class.  in repsonse to you
    question.  i had this same problem.  Blaine said when you set small
    stone you need to have the tables flush with the metal, if you do
    this with stones larger than 2.25 mm it will not work.  we were
    taught to use setting burs for this, the stone must be tight, if it
    is loose it will not work.  then he showed us how to make a really
    nice burnishing tool for this.  if you give me you email address i
    will email you a photo of the tool.  then you burnish the metal
    around then stone with the burnisher perpendicular to the stones
    table this is the important part i was originally taught to do this
    on a slight angle. be sure the stone is going in the hole tight
    enough were it takes a brass pusher to work it in. if you cut the
    hole to big blaine showed us a great trick for that to.  use the
    rounded part of your hammer and slighty tap the surface,  this will
    decrease the hole but doesnt mess up the top metal.  again i highly
    recommend his class, i can not wait to go back, he said Kate Wolf
    shows just as many short cuts and tricks in carving as he does in
    setting,  i am hoping to go to her October carving class,  it is very
    hard to get away from my studio. 

talk to you soon 
Matthew
mhgjewelry.com

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