Gemstone cabochons, new taste of jewelry designers Every designer who wants to try his/her hand in gems and jewelry stream, starts with either drusy or gemstone cabochon because cabs are easy to handle, low prices, variety in colors and easily sellable. It is always good to know in depth knowledge if you are using something in your designs so you can see the step visualization here about how to cut a cabochon - http://jakagems.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-tocut-stone-cabochon.html Why small designers like it more than big designers? 1. Easy to experiment 2. Easy to adjust the size of bezel or metal in which you are going to fit that 3. 25-30% cheaper in prices than cut stones 4. Less visibility of inclusions and other flaws it is true that big jewelry manufacturing companies are still using cut stones more than cabochon. It is vintage fashion and came back into the trend 3-4 years back, it will stay longer or not? – Fashion repeats itself and revise trend of cabochons has proved but now question arises that about stability of this trend. On the other hand if we talk about cut stone then it has always been forever. According to gemologist Navneet Agarwal (Marketing and Sales head of NavneetGems.com) this fashion cabs will stay for longer but will never came into big scale production and so far it is true. Does gemstone cabochon come in flat bottom and plain dome only or any other styles of cabs are also running in the market – Rose cut, checker board, honey comb cutting and hexagon cut cabs are other styles which are used in good volume even more than normal style in some states of America. Rose cut comes with flat bottom and triangular cutting on top, checker board comes with checker board cutting on top and in the some way other come with different style on top with flat bottom. What are different types of gemstone cabochons running in market? – Moonstone, Aventurine, Malachite, Labradorite, Citrine, Crystal, Lapis, Iolite, Onyx, Pyrite, Rutile and many others are running in all sizes. More over that round 6mm, 8mm and 10mm are hot sizes. Have a glimpse of some sample pictures -
High dome, low dome and medium dome – These terms are used to define the height, if height of a cabochon is low then it will be called low dome and in the way others high and medium dome can be defined. Free size and calibrated sizes can be defined are same as normal cut stones. Source - http://www.navneetgems.com/Wholesale-Cabochons