I found a beautiful Amethyst and decided to claw mount it as a pedant. As I am only just venturing into making claw mounts I took the safe way out for this stone and bought a ready made 6 claw from “ ErikasDelights” in America through Etsy. With all Etsy’s extras a shocking price!…..but beautifully made and polished. I offered the stone up to it and it appeared to be a very good tight match. Using a “sticky pencil”, I gave it a very firm push and lo and behold was rewarded with a very positive click as the stone was “gripped by the 6 notched claws. I can’t get any wobble or movement at all. In your opinion do you think this could be safe? I know this is a very fundamental question but I am now breaking out of simple settings bezels etc and this is new ground.
David . Ruedeleglise.


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