SETTING & RE-TIPPING LEVEL 4
FOUR DAY COURSE
Setting & Re-Tipping Level 4 Course Overview
Level 4 Setting is our newest and most ambitious progression within the setting pathway for 2026. This four-day intensive programme is designed for jewellers who have successfully completed the previous levels and, importantly, have continued to practise and refine their skills in the meantime. This level does not simply introduce new techniques — it revisits earlier foundations and takes them significantly deeper. Skills learned in Levels 1–3 are now interwoven, refined, and pushed to a more advanced and commercially demanding standard. Precision, efficiency, symmetry, and structural awareness are expected at this stage.
Trainees will learn the following…
Greater precision in princess cut setting
Advanced claw and collet refinement
Tiffany and rubbed over collet manufacture (faceted stones)
Expanded pave techniques
Star setting by hand
Introduction and comparison of hand gravers vs machine gravers
Correct sharpening methods for both hand and powered gravers
Basic Fishtail carving practice methods in preparation for level 5 2027
Eternity ring construction and manufacture
Channel setting
Basic grain setting foundations (preparation for Level 5 in 2027)
Upcoming Course Dates
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26th - 29th October 2026 - PLACES AVAILABLE
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We will share dates here once they become availabile.
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If you can’t make any of current dates you can still register your interest for future dates.
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Setting & Re-Tipping Level 1 & 2
Setting & Re-Tipping Level 3