i've looked up definitions of doublets.
each and everyone of them states that an opal cap or base must be glued to a separate stone or synthetic material.
so if a jewellery finding was mounted with twinned pieces(like a doublet) and no glue was used at all in the process, is that piece of jewellery a doublet or does it go by another name?
any good intel on the subject matter is appreciated.
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is it the glue that makes it a doublet?
is it the glue that makes it a doublet?
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Its not technically the glue that makes a stone a doublet, its more the opal and backing combo. If an opal is set in jewelry that doesn't make it an opal but can be referred to as inlay if it is just a thin piece of opal that needs the setting to house and support the stone.
i came across a notion to recycle old vinyl lp's(33's and 45's) for use with opals. vinyl records are way softer than opal and make an ideal mounting seat for a crystal opal(the vinyl acts as a cushion when mounting - less likely to crack the gem.). as the vinyl doesn't scratch the base of the opal, if the cap were to come slightly loose in the fitting, there'd be no visible "wear n tear" from the underside of the crystal(makes for quick repolish/repair of the item) the word doublet diminishes the value of a finished piece, at sale time. hopefully, its all in the glue factor...