Gemstone Lapidary Cabochon Jewelry Supply and Discussion Forum
TaoGem supplies inexpensive interesting unique and unusual gemstones. beautiful loose cut gemstones. Cut, faceted and polished designer gemstones for making custom hand made gemstone jewelry, and other gemstone related art work. TaoGem... [more]
TaoGem supplies inexpensive interesting unique and unusual gemstones. beautiful loose cut gemstones. Cut, faceted and polished designer gemstones for making custom hand made gemstone jewelry, and other gemstone related art work. TaoGem will also custom cut gemstones to order in our unique lapidary shop.
A few gemstone cabochon examples are lapis, charoite, fossil coral, lots of different jasper, like ocean jasper, biggs jasper, picture jasper, bruneau jasper, mokaite jaspers, and more. Pietersite, turritella shell fossil, all kinds of agate, like luna agate, dendritic agate, thunderegg agate, plume agate, cathedral agate, moss agate, java and painted agate. Crinoid limestone, mawsitsit, calsilica, turquoise, phoshposiderite, opal, cameo, sagenite, calcite, and a variety of jasper intarsia and calsilica intarsia. Wholesale gemstone lots and parcels available too.
Our individual gemstone directory and our earring cab pair directory offer a great many gemstone minerals in cabochon form. Expert and novice alike will find TaoGem an invaluable resource for quality gems.
My Lesson in Purchasing Silver Ring Blank with Bezel / Prong Gemstone Setting
This was the first time I had purchased a ring blank to set a stone in. When I saw it in the magazine it appeared to have a bezel type setting with four prongs. I thought was simply going to be able and push the floral looking bezel and prongs up against the gemstone.
After it arrived, I quickly realized after trying to push the floral like bezel and prongs that nothing was going to budge!
After some discussion and another attempt at pushing it was obvious that at least the floral like bezel setting was too thick to move. It was a bit hard to believe that at least the prongs would not budge.
Well as things turned out, I was pretty disappointed as it became apparent that there was no way around having to glue the darn stone into the setting. I sure would not have purchased it if I had known.
My next purchase I will sure be paying closer attention.. This was a lesson learned.. Glad it was not too expensive and that I did not purchase all three that I will need during this first purchase.
If I can’t find a blank with a push type bezel setting then will buy the blank with a flat top and solder my own bezel setting.
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