If you don’t understand these inlay methods, how can you buy beautiful and stable inlaid jade?

Inlaid jade is very beautiful, everyone knows it and likes it. What the editor wants to say is that before buying inlaid jade, it is best to first know some inlay methods, which may help you buy better jade.

Common jade inlay methods include claw setting, nail setting, bezel setting, buried setting and combination setting. Each of these inlay methods has its own characteristics. Let’s take a look with the editor below.

Prong Setting

This is the most commonly used method of inlaying jade in China. It mainly uses metal claws to press on the waist of the jade to fix the jade ring face. The purpose is to avoid covering the bare stone as much as possible, allowing the surrounding light to shine on the bare stone, maximizing the optical effect of jade, making the jade look crystal clear, gorgeous and elegant.

Nail setting

This setting method is also called "bead setting". It makes use of the extension type of metal and shovels out a few small nails on the edge of the metal setting to fix the jadeite. In this way, no metal or claws fixing the loose stone can be seen on the surface of the jadeite. This method allows for ample light to penetrate and reflect, highlighting the jade's brilliant brilliance.

Bezel

Also known as bezel setting, it is a method of using metal edges to surround jadeite. This inlay technique is the most stable. Generally speaking, plain jadeite usually adopts the bezel setting method.

Buried

The craftsmanship is similar to bezel setting, which is to put the jade into the groove on the metal surface, and then wrap the edge of the jade with metal to cover the edge. This is a relatively firm setting method. The difference from bezel setting is that the jade table and the surrounding metal are kept on the same plane.

Channel Setting

This is a method of closely arranging and setting multiple jade loose stones of the same shape and size. This setting technique uses two strips of metal to clamp the loose stones from both sides, just like sewing them with thread, making the gems tight and stable. This setting method is most suitable for jadeite in strip or long shapes. The channel setting is like a railroad track with jadeite in the middle.

Combination setting

As the name suggests, combination setting is a setting method that uses multiple setting methods together. For example, for heart-shaped or teardrop-shaped jadeite, you can use bezel setting to inlay its top corners, and then use claw setting to give people a novel and unique feeling.

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