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precious-stone-setter Occupational skill for the role 'precious stone setter' (also: jewelery stone setter, gem setter, diamond setter, precious stone craftworker, gemsetter, gem stone setter). Use when the user asks for typical precious stone setter work such as: Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.; Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.; Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.

Precious Stone Setter

Precious stone setters use tools to insert diamonds and other gemstones into jewellery settings according to specifications. The setting of the gemstone depends on its size and its shape.

Core workflow

  1. Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.
  2. Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire.
  3. Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones.
  4. Make repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings.
  5. Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths.
  6. Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
  7. Select and acquire metals and gems for designs.
  8. Compute costs of labor and materials to determine production costs of products and articles.

How to use this skill

Key competences (essential)

  • assemble jewellery parts
  • attend to detail regarding jewellery creation
  • characteristics of diamonds
  • characteristics of precious metals
  • ensure conformance to jewel design specifications
  • examine gems
  • gemstones
  • jewellery processes
  • manufacturing of jewellery
  • mount stones in jewels
  • record jewel weight
  • use jewellery equipment
  • use precision tools

Hot technologies

  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Sources: ESCO v1.2.1 (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/6729aa5a-285f-4baf-a466-c2ccd2f2d96f), ONET 30.3 (51-9071.00). See manifest.json for licensing/attribution.*