Wholesale Loose Gemstone Cabochons to Create One-of-a Kind Jewelry

Love to wear gemstone rings, necklaces, earrings or other gemstone jewelries? Gemstone cabochons are widely used in making these jewelry pieces. Gemstone cabochons have been produced in a number of shapes ranging from oval to round to pear to many other fancy shapes like heart, triangle, marquise and etc.

Natural Rhodochrosite Cabochons

Many jewelry makers may not know how the gemstone cabochons are produced, especially the beginners. The rough gemstone is first pre-shaped by hand on a place coated with diamond powder, rotating on lap by a motor (generally 800 R.P. or more). The pre-shaping is done manually by hand keeping in mind the inclusions, cracks, and cleavage. After pre-shaping, the dome shape is stuck on a stick for fine shaping and smoothing the surface. The smoothing of the surface is very critical for the polish to be good. After the fine shaping, the polishing is done by diamond powder mixed with oil on a polishing lap. The polishing in most gemstones is done on Sandalwood. At one time all gems were shaped as cabochons. Today most gems are faceted, but some are still cut as cabochons, because they have special optical qualities or are too opaque to facet.

Many jewelry makers advise to buy loose gemstone cabochons instead of pre-set jewelry. Why? There are many reasons, but basically it boils down to value and choice. When buying your gemstone cabochons, you can be sure they are worth your money. Loose cabochons are less expensive, and you can really see what you are paying for. A cabochon setting will hide the inclusions inside a gem, and can deepen or brighten its color. With a loose stone, you can much more easily inspect the gem and see it for what it really is. The second advantage is getting wide choices. You are free to pick the exact color, cut, shape and variety of the cabochon for the setting of your dreams. You can experience the joy of creating your very own, one of a kind jewelry design.

On today’s fashion jewelry market, you will find a wide range of selection of gemstone cabochons, including turquoise, amber, agate, jade, tiger eye, green aventurine, amethyst, black stone, ametrine, coral, fluorite, howlite, rose quartz, jasper, mookaite and many others. All of them are available in various shapes, sizes and colors. As they are belonging to different kinds of stones, some of them have vivid patterns inside or on surfaces. You can purchase them from your local small jewelry stores, but I would like to say you’d better to purchase them from online wholesale stores if you would like to get cheap prices and wider range of selection. 

Choose Suitable Cabochons and Cabochon Settings for Various Jewelry

Cabochon jewelry has been popular for a long time. So cabochons and cabochons settings has become popular parts of jewelry making. Cabochons can be glued to cabochon settings and ring settings. These settings are also used to make other decoration on clothing, hair decoration and etc.

Cabochons come in different materials, such as acrylic rhinestone, cat eye, dichroic glass, gemstone, normal glass, lampwork, millefiori glass, plastic, polymer clay, porcelain, resin, shell, wood, woven and so on. They are all in various colors and shapes. These nice beadings can be used for necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings and other projects for fashion designs. Whether you are looking to supplement your line of jewelry making supplies and handmade jewelry or just shopping for yourself, you can easily find incalculable cabochons in the jewelry market.

Alloy Pendant Cabochon Settings, Lead Free

After you have chosen the desired cabochons, choose suitable cabochon settings is your next step. As cabochons are come in various shapes, the cabochon settings are come in various shapes and designs too. No doubt that you must choose cabochon settings with suitable shapes for your cabochons, or else they can not be matched together. That is to say, you must choose round settings for your round cabochons. These settings also come in different colors, for example, silver, gold, platinum, black, brass, antique silver, antique bronze, red copper, antique gold, and etc. When you choose cabochon settings for your cabochons, you also need to consider about their colors. As we all know that different colors will create different effects. And you should consider about the whole color collections of your designs.

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Acrylic Rhinestone Cabochons

from these, you still need to consider about the sizes for both cabochons and settings. About cabochons, we can easily know their sizes from sellers. While, about the sizes of cabochon settings, they are have two sizes which are outside sizes and inside sizes. The real sizes you need to know clearly are the inside sizes which are the key sizes for your cabochons. Today, cabochon settings are produced with more and more beautiful designs. Some of them are really very special, for instance, some settings are produced just like a crown to hold rhinestone cabochons; some are in flower shape just like a bead cap, which are used to hold cabochons; some are produced with the shape of animals to hold cabochons in center; some of them have normal oval or round shapes but with unique hang holes or links at the bottom.

Tempered Glass Cabochons, Oval, White

As cabochon settings are produced in various shapes and designs, different designs have different uses in jewelry making. Some of them are produced for necklaces; some are used for bracelets; some are used to create earrings; and some of them have loops at two ends just like a link. Choose correct cabochon settings for your cabochons to create various jewelry designs.

Create Meaningful Jewelry with Glass Cabochons

Glass cabochons are an important part of glass jewelry. They are widely used in glass earrings, glass pendants, bracelets and necklaces. If you would like to get started using glass in your designs, using glass cabochons is one of the easiest way.

Glass cabochon beads in faceted, domed, painted, heart, oval and cameo vintage German styles as well as Czech glass. Flat backs and no drill hole make these beads ideal to place inside settings made of brass or silver plated stampings. Wrap with filigree. Use glue on bails for a quick and easy pendant. Clear glass cabochons can be placed over images or words for a magnifying effect. Create magnets, pendants, earrings and brooches by using them in person are not such a different thing any more.

Transparent Glass Cabochons

Tempered glass cabochons are a new style cabochon. Tempered glass cabochons stick a pattern on surface. After sticking on a pattern, cover on the tempered glass, for long-lasting wear. Use these cabochons with any flat components on a chain or as a drop design. Crystal clear glass cabochons magnify designs and patterns when placed on top of paper or fabric.

Tempered Glass Cabochons, Oval

Nothing gets as much attention as a gorgeous, shimmering piece of glass jewelry, especially the glass cabochons jewelry. Today, more and more people prefer to wear glass cabochons jewelry or present them as gifts to their mom or friends. If you are a jewelry maker, why not make some meaningful jewelry gifts for your cared one with those kind cabochons? At the meantime, you can not miss that chance to expand your jewelry business by wholesale quality glass cabochons at lower prices if you are a jewelry businessman.

Tempered glass cabochons

Glass cabochons can be easily purchased from the market. While, if you would like to get a wide range of selection and a competitive price, you’d better to purchase them from online wholesale stores. However, first of all, you need to find a trustworthy suppler, or else you will meet many problems after you received your items. You can do a research on the internet, and PandaHall.com will be a wise choice for you. PandaHall is a federation of Chinese factories and also the Chinese Small Merchandise online market. It retails and wholesales Beads & Findings including jade, pearl, gemstone, lampwork glass and crystal items etc. It can also source many products for you. It is a Squaretrade Verified Seller. Whether you have a company of jewelry making or personal jewelry store, PandaHall can offer different solutions according to your needs.