Channel Set Diamond Ring Repair

Setting small diamonds rubies sapphires and even emeralds into channels has become commonplace in most shops.

Channel set diamond ring repair.

The following tips will hopefully make this work a little easier. In this demo kevin will be showing you how to repair a channel set a diamond. In fact one came out which is how it came to me. No problem matching the diamond size though i didn t have any that color.

Hardly a week goes by without some form of repair being preformed on a channel set piece. I have a man s wedding ring 10k w 11 15 pt diamonds. It s heavily worn and all the diamonds are loose. Why worn out channel settings are difficult to fix channel settings are more low set and free of prongs that can catch on clothing purses etc.

This makes for an especially durable setting for the life of the ring but should the material wear down and become thin it can be a real challenge to restore. Assuming you can get a new diamond cut to the right size it may be a difficult task to set the new stone. When channel setting it is of utmost importance to cut a precise seat. Lets take a sneak peak behind the scenes mike and eric use a gravemeister tool that closely resembles a very mini jack hammer to tighten and set diamonds that are channel set into mountings.