Cutting Cabochon To Get The best Color & Effects for Sterling Silver Jewelry
Getting the best color and optical effects in opaque or transluent stones. Than set into sterling silver to be handcrafted for silver cabochon jewelry is to cut them en cabochon or also called cabs.
Cabochon with a rounded upper surface and flat underside. Cabochons are cut and polihsed on abrasive wheels.
The stone is firest ground to its outline shape, and the top of the cabochon is ground and polished into a dome, using progressively finer abrasives.
The cabochon then can be set into sterling silver and handcrafted into Silver Cabochon Jewelry.
