[Jewelry making - Article 00560] - [Orchid] To cast or fabricate stone setting

[zachary]

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Hello,

    This is my first post here. I'm a glorified hobbyist jeweler and I
    humbly turn to the collective expertise of this outstanding group
    because I'm in over my head. 

    A friend has a 18x15x11 deep pear amethyst that he wants me to set
    in a silver pendant for him. The stone has a visible inclusion near
    the point that looks like a few straight lines when viewed from one
    direction, but appear as planes when turned 90 degrees. I don't know
    enough to understand the implications of this for setting the stone.
    It also has a rather big belly and the pavillion angle is rather
    large. I tend to avoid stones cut like this when I buy for myself,
    so I don't have much experience making seats for big fat slopes like
    this stone has. 

    He wants a 'solid looking' setting, i.e., bezel walls. My instinct
    is to fabricate, but I never really learned to carve wax, so I
    fabricate almost everything I make. What would you do with a stone
    like this? Thanks in advance for your thoughts, 

Zachary Androus
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