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.

A close-up of a jewelry-making process, with a jeweler setting a diamond into a gold ring, using a precision tool on a metallic workpiece.

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)

Close-up of a jewelry artisan setting a large red gemstone ring with a diamond halo using a precision tool.

Upcoming Course Dates

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