Here's a recent project involving this gorgeous pair of pear shaped diamonds. The instruction was to set these into interesting studs; normally gems of this shape end up being drops or danglers. I didn't want to put too much around it as I wanted to still highlight the diamonds. So I encircled and encased them in gold and custom cut onyx. Like stones embedded in stones. The outer part we had just put some fine detail of smaller diamonds and gold beading. And, I must say, they turned out quite nice.