{"id":158,"date":"2026-08-15T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/index.php\/2026\/08\/15\/why-six-claws\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:48:10","slug":"why-six-claws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/why-six-claws\/","title":{"rendered":"Why six claws, and when four is right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four claws show more stone. Six claws lose fewer of them. That is the trade, and which side you want depends on the stone and on the hand.<\/p>\n<h2>The case for six<\/h2>\n<p>With four claws, one failure is a lost stone. With six, one failure is a service. On a ring worn daily, particularly on a hand that works, six is the answer nearly every time.<\/p>\n<h2>The case for four<\/h2>\n<p>A four-claw setting covers less of the girdle, so a stone under a carat looks meaningfully larger. On a ring worn occasionally, that is a real gain for a small risk.<\/p>\n<h2>What we will not do<\/h2>\n<p>Three claws. It looks wonderful in a drawing and it is a stone waiting to fall out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most common setting question we get, answered with the trade-off rather than a preference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urartu.group\/lumina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}