{"id":11291,"date":"2025-03-17T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T09:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/kennisbank\/irregular-stone-setting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:14:07","slug":"irregular-stone-setting","status":"publish","type":"kennisbank","link":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/knowledge-base\/irregular-stone-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular stone setting"},"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>Irregular stone setting can be done with setting wire or by making metal clay\/silver clay settings.<\/p>\n<p>When using setting wire, first bake the ring and then use 999 silver setting wire to make a setting tray. This setting tray you solder onto the ring with silver solder or you fix it with Overlay paste from Art Clay. <\/p>\n<p>Overlay method: Do not polish or polish the baked-off jewel. It is still white. Then size the setting tray around the stone. Secure the shaped setting tray to the ring with a little spray clay and when that is dry apply about 3 thin layers of overlay paste. Also on the seam of the setting. Bake the jewelry again.     <\/p>\n<p>Set stones with the anti shrinkage compound.<\/p>\n<p>Resistant to temperatures up to 900 degrees Celsius<\/p>\n<p>The compound prevents the shrinkage of the clay at the location where the brick\/stones are to be placed.<\/p>\n<p>The compound is made of natural materials and is completely safe to use<\/p>\n<p>Using the original stones, form the setting and setting trays from metal clay \/ silver clay.<br \/>\nAllow to dry and remove the stones before baking.<\/p>\n<p>Mix compound with a few drops of water until you can knead it, like dough.<\/p>\n<p>Fill the resulting empty setting with the compound and allow the compound to dry thoroughly before firing the jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the entire cavity is well filled.<\/p>\n<p>Bake as usual.<\/p>\n\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11292,"parent":0,"template":"","kennisbank-taxonomy":[6341],"class_list":["post-11291","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\/11291","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\/11292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kennisbank-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank-taxonomy?post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}