{"id":7651,"date":"2014-01-13T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2018-02-02T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:25:37","slug":"basket-settings-diamond-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/basket-settings-diamond-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Basket Settings for Diamond Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>R1H001, Cara with 6 claw basket setting.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What is a Basket Setting?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A basket setting is a form of claw setting, incorporating wire claws to create an open structure. Basket settings are particularly useful for holding larger gemstones and diamonds. Basket settings typically have between 6 and 12 claws surrounding the stone at equal distances, protecting the diamond and securing the stone at multiple points around the circumference of the girdle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above design (style reference Cara, R1H001) includes a supportive under-bezel, common amongst basket settings to prevent displacement of the wire claws and to hold the setting together. Modern styles of basket setting sometimes include consideration to a wedding-ring friendly fit. Look at the side-view provided above and take notice of the raised setting, which allows a plain, straight wedding ring to literally sit perfectly flush alongside the engagement ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R1H001, Cara with 6 claw basket setting. What is a Basket Setting? A basket setting is a form of claw setting, incorporating wire claws to create an open structure. Basket settings are particularly useful for holding larger gemstones and diamonds. Basket settings typically have between 6 and 12 claws surrounding the stone at equal distances,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/basket-settings-diamond-rings\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamond-rings","category-engagement-rings","category-jewellery","category-jewellery-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12816,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/12816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serendipitydiamonds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}