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Alasdair Craig, Cellini Outstanding Young Learner Award winner 2006 Diamond setting is an art, as well as a skill, and it can take up to ten years to train a setter to the highest level. At the time of winning the Edge Award back in November 2006, Alasdair Craig was Cellini's most senior fourth-year diamond-setting apprentice. After just two years of training, Alasdair had exhibited enough competence to reach a commercial standard. His success was attributed to his great enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. He became an accomplished artist and exhibited his work at a public show. With the funding from the Edge Award, Alasdair put himself through further training and has now decided to go to University. "I don't think I would ever have had the confidence to go to university if I hadn't gone to Cellini," he says. "To see someone who can do things with their hands, things you thought were impossible, and who is prepared to teach you, that's when you realise you have to be prepared to learn to get what you want."