As some people already know, I was recently over in Utrecht doing a week-long course in micropave setting.

It'll take some practice until I'm entirely happy with the results, and I won't be doing any of this style of setting in silver. Gold or platinum only - with the labour involved, there seems little point in aiming it at the less expensive metals.

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37 stones, each 1.1mm across. Some *very* fiddly layout work (and I scrubbed off the piece several times before I was satisfied with the scribed layout).

Still having fun trying to photograph the stuff! On the full-size image I can make out the word "Swarovski" lasered into the table of each CZ, but I think it's beyond the resolution ability of the lens to show it clearly.