{"id":11282,"date":"2025-03-17T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/kennisbank\/natural-stone-cabochons\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:54:59","slug":"natural-stone-cabochons","status":"publish","type":"kennisbank","link":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/knowledge-base\/natural-stone-cabochons\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural stone cabochons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"block block-text my-5 my-lg-7\">\n            <div class=\"container\">\n                <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"col-12 col-lg-10 col-xxl-8 mx-auto\">\n                    <p>Natural stone cabochons are cut and polished natural stones, gemstones or semi-precious stones with a smooth convex top and a flat bottom. In addition to cabochons with a smooth convex top, there are also faceted cabochons. <\/p>\n<p>Natural stones for cabochons are mined worldwide. The exact origin depends on type of stone, as different minerals require specific geological conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Cabochons are used in jewelry such as pendants, rings, earrings and bracelets, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Cabochons are incorporated into jewelry in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting in a case setting (bezel setting)<\/li>\n<li>Clamp or claw setting (prong setting)<\/li>\n<li>Wire wrapping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Different techniques, methods and materials are available for silver clay processing than for regular forging work.<\/p>\n<p>Materials suitable for both silver clay jewelry and forged jewelry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>925 setting trays, setting boxes, chatons etc.<\/li>\n<li>Zetdraad<\/li>\n<li>Silver solder paste and solder plate soft and hard<\/li>\n<li>Silver solder powder ( for filligrain work). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Materials suitable for processing cabochons in silver clay \/ metal clay<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overlay paste (for co-firing of typesetting trays, typesetting boxes and chatons. For closing the seam of typesetting wire)<\/li>\n<li>Anti shrinkage compound ( prevents shrinkage in settings made of silver clay or metal clay)<\/li>\n<li>999 setting trays and setting boxes suitable for co-firing in metal clay<\/li>\n<li>Bronze and copper setting boxes and trays suitable for co-firing in metal clay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11283,"parent":0,"template":"","kennisbank-taxonomy":[6341],"class_list":["post-11282","kennisbank","type-kennisbank","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kennisbank-taxonomy-setting-stones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank\/11282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kennisbank"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kennisbank-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank-taxonomy?post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}