Diamond Jewelry Channel Settings

Video Transcript

"This segment is going to be about channel setting. Channel setting is fairly new to the industry because it came along as a style that uses the pressure of the sides of metal as opposed to prongs. There are no channel settings simply because it is put into the metal and the metal is hammered literally hammered over the girdles or the edges of the stones in order to set them. Some people will refer to this as blind setting because there are no prongs. It is a very very good concept, it is a secure concept. Here you see two different types of stones that are channel set, this being in platinum and it is hammered down over the sides once the groove is cut to the sides where the girdle can fit and then the metal is hammered down and smoothed out and it is difficult to see how the stone is set. It gives a very mystic setting. This is a little pendant that is done the same way. There are no prongs to snag up on the material of whomever is wearing that which has become very very popular. Most people will prefer a channel set diamond. The risk factors of these in a ring is that the girdles are exposed and if they are exposed you have to take precaution to stay away from metals or steels because if you clean it real hard it will lend itself to chip so caution must be issued to that or you must have an extension of these channels beyond the girdle or the stone in order to get a nice protective setting."