Precious Stone Setter Handicraft & Printing Workers

Materials and processes involved in creating jewellery items like earrings, necklaces, rings, brackets, etc.

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Stone Setting

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2020

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The manufacturing of different type of jewellery such as rings or necklaces out of various metal types such as silver, gold, diamond and other precious stones.

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Stone Setting

Scott McIntyre

2020

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Key characteristics of diamonds that affect their value: carat weight, cut, colour and clarity.

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Diamonds

Renee Newman

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Diamonds and Precious Stones

Harry Emanuel

2022

Variations of precious metals according to density, corrossion resistance, electrical conductivity, light reflectivity and quality.

Types of minerals or petrified materials that are cut and polished for use in jewellery, classified according to type, characteristics, and value.

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Gemstones

Cally Hall

2021

Examine finished jewellery products to ensure that they meet quality standards and design specifications. Use magnifying glasses, polariscopes or other optical instruments.

Handle, modify, or repair jewellery-making equipment such as jigs, fixtures, and hand tools such as scrapers, cutters, gougers, and shapers.

Use electronic, mechanical, electric, or optical precision tools for precision work.

Assemble and thread different jewellery parts together such as pearls, locks, wire, and chains by soldering, clamping, welding or lacing the materials.

Perform great attention to all steps in the design, creation and finishing of jewellery.

Closely examine gemstone surfaces using polariscopes or other optical instruments.

Mount gemstones in pieces of jewellery closely following design specifications. Place, set and mount gemstones and metal parts.

Record the weight of finished jewellery pieces.

The offered watches and jewellery products, their functionalities, properties and legal and regulatory requirements.

The process of creating pearls by inserting a piece of tissue in the centre of the oyster to help create pearls under controlled conditions, instead of the accidentally occurring natural …

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Pearls

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A Process for Preserving the Pearl-oyster Fisheries and for Increasing the Value of the Yield of Pearls

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Reshape jewellery mountings.

Clean and polish metal items and pieces of jewellery; handle mechanical jewellery-making tools such as polishing wheels.

Create pieces of jewellery using precious materials such as silver and gold.

Operate cutting and measuring instruments in order to cut/shape pieces of metal into given dimensions.

Develop new jewellery designs and products, and modify existing designs.

Heat, melt and shape metals for jewellery making.

Make jewellery repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewellery back together, and replacing broken or worn-out clasps and mountings.

Select and purchase gems to use in jewellery pieces and designs.

Select and purchase precious metals and alloys to use in jewellery pieces

Report in case the product arrives with a defect from previous processes. Understand the type of defect and send it to the right person.

Operate a microscope, an instrument used to see objects that are too small for the naked eye to see.

Record the amount of time it took to process an item of jewellery.

Generate innovative and creative ideas to design and decorate jewellery.

Use specialised equipment such as electron microscope, telemetry, digital imaging analysis, global positioning systems, and computer modelling in studies and analyses of production methodology.