[Jewelry making - Article 00171] - Re: [Orchid] Setting customer stones

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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>     But if stone would be examined before setting the flaw is easily
>     seen and I would reject such a stone. 

    Well that's nice. I guess you don't work on any stones that belong to
    customers. While the diamonds I sell are all VS or better clarities,
    the stuff that most people own comes nowhere near those kinds of
    clarity grades. And if you offer yourself as a custom jeweler then
    you are going to regularly be setting diamonds that customers bring
    you and a LOT of them are going to have flaws, many of them large
    ones. Some of the diamonds will look like broken windshields. Some of
    them have breaks so big on the side that if you recut them you'd end
    up with a stone less than half the size of the original. And most of
    them have been passed down for generations so simply rejecting them
    doesn't fly. But then, in my book, it's the challenging jobs that
    make you a good jeweler. Almost anyone can set a perfect stone
    safely. Only a really good setter can set a piece of junk safely. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.spirerjewelers.com
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