Diamond Jewelry Pave Settings

Video Transcript

"This segment is going to be about pave settings. Pave is a term that is used as to how stones are set. It is actually a French word meaning to pave and it does not necessarily relate to blacktop but it does mean covering a surface. So in the jewelry industry when we pave something we literally drill holes close enough depending upon the size of the diamond so we can pave a particular piece of metal with stones and we hold that down with tiny little prongs and in this case we fill up a piece of metal be it flat or be it round and in this case this ring goes all the way around and has pave on this particular piece. That pave here is set in platinum and both of these rings are set in platinum. Platinum is soft to work but it also holds well because it peens itself down over time and actually tightens the stone up. So pave is a very very common element of setting stones and when the stones are the same size equal and of good quality it turns out to be a very very nice project."