Stone Setting Intensive Course and Flash Courses 2024 at LAO

> Stone Setting intensive course:
Dates: 3 – 26 July, 2024.
Duration: 120 hours. 
Price: € 2.700.
Deadline: 15 June, 2024.

The intensive stone setting course is suitable for young students as well as for goldsmiths who need to learn this art to cope with their daily work problems. The classes are all held in the workshop and include demonstrations and exercises that will go through all the stages of gemstone setting on metal, using high-quality silver semi-finished products and cubic zirconia. The course starts with relatively simple setting techniques, such as prongs and bezels, and progresses to more complex work.
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> Stone Setting flash courses: 
Instructor: Francesco Pinzauti.
Duration: 48 hours.
Dates: 16 – 24 September, 2024.
Deadline: 31 August, 2024.

1. INPR1.F Setting with prongs (solitaire or trilogy) 
Dates: 16 and 17 September, 2024. 
Tuition Fee: € 300.
The prong setting is the most commonly used for solitaire and trilogy rings, and it enhances the beauty of the stone. Participants will learn how to set brilliant-cut round stones on silver rings and other semi-finished products.
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2. INBS.F Setting with different-shaped settings
Dates: 18 and 19 September, 2024.
Tuition Fee: € 300.
The stone is set in the previously prepared seat (setting). The metal collar is fixed on the stone with a chisel or a hammer. For the exercises, semi-finished products with settings of various shapes will be used, and participants will learn how to set faceted stones of different cuts (round, square, or princess) and round cabochon-cut stones.
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3. INSG.F Flush setting
Dates: 20 September, 2024.
Tuition Fee: €200.
The technique of flush setting, in which the stones are not covered by the metal at all, makes the stones appear larger than they actually are. This type of setting is particularly suitable for small round stones and is often used for " light points" and in tennis bracelets. During the course, exercises will be carried out on silver or bronze plates and semi-finished products.
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4. INBI.F Channel setting
Dates: 23 September, 2024.
Tuition Fee: €200.
Channel setting is one of the most common types of setting: this type of mounting gives beauty to stones arranged in a row next to each other. It is a type of setting suitable for not large stones, usually all of the same size. The most used cuts for this type of setting are square and baguette, but excellent results are also obtained with round stones.
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5. INSGR.F Bead setting
Dates: 24 September, 2024.
Tuition Fee: €200.
This technique partly recalls the prong setting, but the use of special mills and gravers makes it very different in realization and suitable for objects to be produced in series or simple on unique objects. The setter obtains small prongs by cutting the base metal and shaping the metal blocks according to their own taste.
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