How to Make a Bezel and Set a Cabochon - Part Two
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Here's part two on creating a bezel and setting a cab. The basic premise is on soldering a bezel cup to a ring shank and then setting the stone. But, there is so much more included! I've added sweat soldering a pierced overlay to a ring shank, how to use a ring bender with thick ring shanks, how to use a ring mandrel, multiple options for squaring up the ends of ring shanks as well as how to create straight, flat edges on sheet, annealing, making a guard for your vise and a lot more information!
(BTW, the ring shank ended up being 11g.)
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Thank you for showing so much detail. Love watching your humor, and your work.
You are wonderful and generous making these videos. I learn so much. I laugh a lot too. And every time you drop something, it makes me feel like less of a klutz, seeing a seasoned jeweler do the same as I do.
I love all of your videos - both for the techniques I learn and for the sheer entertainment value!! You are a riot!!
BESSSSST stone setting video I’ve watched!!! THANK YOU 🙏🏼
Your videos are so addicting, and your work is beautiful. I love it!
I always learn more than I expect when watching your videos. So many little tips and tricks thrown in. Thank you! And you look awesome btw.
Thank you so much for posting these videos! They help soooo much. You’re the best!
Really enjoyed watching these. Then, I always do. Thanks Nancy. Got some ideas going on upstairs.
Nancy, you are my new Queen of everything FABULOUS!
I really loved this series of videos! Thank you...I'm getting braver in my soldering...
thank you so much for offering these videos Nancy! They are so well done and so, so helpful besides entertaining! So interesting that you mention allowing your annealed piece to cool naturally. I've always wondered if that quench leaves the piece a little harder & now you've answered that question for me. Thank you for having such a good heart!
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Thanks so much for another informative tutorial....you rock!
Hi Nancy, Pat S here …..love love love you'r Videos I learn something very helpful EVERY time....Thank YOU
I love your videos Nancy. You make us laugh.
Love your techniques! Great info 😁
I cant believe how good you are...thank you...and how funny you are lol.....I am absolutely amazed at your transformation, you have really lost a lot of weight and your hair looks absolutely gorgeous!!! Go girl go..........
your good at explaining and doing it at the same time,i,m almost inspired to start going back to my bench soon,if only I had more customers to make it worthwhile for the cost ,but hey it,s something to do with all my cabs I cut.thanks again.
Nancy this is wonderful. Thank you so much. I love your wonderful tips and teaching method. I have never even held a graver before. When you get one does it come already sharp?
your intro is GREAT... and great hair lol
learn a lot from you ...thanks!
Wonderful info Nancy! Thank you!
Awe I love you and your videos. Thanks for all the tips!
Nancy have you ever tried the titanium strips bent into various style mini clamps, I find them much better than cross lock tweezers
I haven't done any soldering yet, but I'm doing my research into it. I found part one and this part very informative. I very much appreciate you sharing your expertise. I have been playing with wire and feel the urge to make something beyond wire jewelry.
Do you have suggestions for what basics I will need to get started making bezel cups and ring shanks? I have most of the files and sanding papers already.
I envy your studio space. I don't have that luxury.
Really dig the design on the band. You are very talented. Do you give classes over the net? Thank you for a great vid. I'm going to try to make something similar to this. Have been practicing with bronze but failing miserably with the solder part of it. Any suggestions? Thank you!
Awesome as always. Great Hair. Love the tip about the magnetic strips on the leather.
Do you sell the miter thingy
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Learning so much from you! Thank you! I have to say though you had me pretty nervous when you were pointing that torch towards your pickle pot! I was praying it wasn't going to explode! I really learned a lot of new techniques in this particular two parter. Great ring! When you die can I have your equipment? Lol, sorry , old family joke. Going to facebook to put in a friend request!❤
You always make me laugh ! Thanks.
I'm trying to glimpse the ring you're wearing on your left hand. LOL! I know it's got to be Awesome!
lol Great opening. Love your hair this way too. While you were using your torch, I kept watching the flame as you turned the charcoal brick and it was right next to (nearly touching) the dial on your crockpot. I kept saying "you're gonna melt it" half laughing), but for some odd reason you didn't hear me. lol Love this piece. It's beautiful...especially since its custom made. With this setting, is it secure enough to wear it all the time...with all the usual bumps and wacks on things...and hold the cabochon without it popping out? Thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful videos with us. I've learned so much with you at the head of the classroom. :)
Nancy can you sweat solder copper the same as with the silver?
Your videos are the best! You are gorgeous!
Fabulous as always! Love your videos too! :)
Another excellent video, cookie cutter jewellery I like that term
Nancy, with a stone that is prone to cracking like moonstone, would you still use the hammer setting method? I recently made a ring with a beautiful moonstone but while lightly tapping, the stone developed a crack. Should I just use a bezel pusher and just muscle it into place? Anytime I've tried that it seems to not turn out as seamless as when lightly hammering. Thanks!
Hi Nancy
Love the ring. I'm an amateur silver and gold smith. I live in geelong Victoria Australia. I find it so hard to locate products cheaply here. Tools are expensive. And the chemicals aren't easily found. Wish we had habour freight here. Sound wonderful. Was wondering if I could use borax instead of boric acid to make fire scale shield. The recipe I have is denatured alcohol and boric acid? Thank you love your work, videos and whit.
Michel.
Nancy is the Best.
I keep wondering why there isn't much talk of practicing in cheaper metal (brass or copper). I am doing this now and struggling with things like sawing it and getting the color match brass and copper solder to flow, etc. I worked with wire for a decade so I understand different metal is different (harder, stronger, softer, more workable, etc) but is the bottom line here that we need to practice sawing and soldering in silver and just accept the cost? Thank you for your videos btw, they are by far my favorite in learning. I even put them on in the background during my many struggles lol
You are the best and best.
What kind of solder pic do you use to spread the solder in the piece? Titanium or tungsten? I bought a butane torch soldering starter set from Rio and they included three titanium pics- them I find out I can’t pic solder with those🙄
-BTW, you inspire me! I want to emulate this ring design!
Hi Nancy, you said in the first half of this vid that if you let the cross locks naturally they'll be annealed and easier to bend back into shape. Does this mean I should be quenching my crosslocks after heating to avoid them being annealed? Or is it one of those things that can't really be helped and they will become annealed anyways and does this matter? I hope you understand my ramblings? -Kim (aka Apple).
Great Job!!! What is the name and brand of the vise you use and talk about?
thank you darling -- you are a gem
I forgot to mention that I love the magnetic leather strips for your bench vice. That's brilliant! Where did you get those nice thick pieces of leather? I want to do that to mine and also a pair of pliers for straightening wire, but maybe I'll have to glue the leather directly on them.
could we be resourceful and pick up a chunky thick old leather belt at a thrift store and cut it up? try it.
Great Video. Thank you!!
Hi Nancy what is the brand of the ring bender you are using in the video ?? Thanks xxx
Hey Nancy girl...lookin good! Thanks for the tutorial. I am jazzed, cuz I haven't done an overlay before and now, I'm gonna! Also like the way you graduate the ends. I noticed a bench shear in the pic. One with the blue handle. How do you like it? I bought an econo from Contenti and was told after I purchased that I won't like it (haven't used it yet). You have any words of wisdom? Thanks for that and thanks for the video! Always, Meowzer!
Hi! Do you ever do the alcohol and borax for fire scale resist?? I don't know if I see you do that??
Love your work and vid Thank-you
Hi Nancy, I love all your videos! I was wondering why you sanded with damped sandpaper? Thanks!
For one thing, it creates far less dust when you use damp sandpaper.
Nancy, how much effort do you put into removing tool marks from the silver?
Depends. Usually, finishing, for me, is the slowest process.
I learned a lot!
Your videos are awesome. I learn so much. And you look beautiful, new hairdo?
new wig!
You rock Nancy! :)
Wish you were able to upload more often. Have you considered live streaming while you work, so you don't have to worry about editing or making a video for a specific project?
Do you have any advice on when to do or not to do a "bezel-cup-in-band" ring, as opposed to a "bezel-cup-on-top-of-band" ring?
Is that a huge round charcoal block? Where did u get that? It's perfect for a lazy Suzan.
I don't know where Nancy found her block, but I purchased mine from Otto Frei: www.ottofrei.com/European-Charcoal-Blocks
Thanks! Those look great and I love the size verity.
Thankyou for your video's
Sometimes when I do these piercings and then I solder them to a back piece, the edges of the pierced pieces can be sharper than I'd like. Do you have tips to fix that?
I like either tripoli compound or 3M radial disks for smoothing up the edges.
They get in the cracks okay?
nice!!!!
I really think from now on I will be just making all of my rings with open back of the shank of the rings. When my knuckles are like a size 7 and my actual size of my finger is a size 6. All of the pretties hang under my hand. NOT COOL! even with making coin rings I am going to try and figure out away of doing it with those also. Good day!
Try making finger-shaped rings - they don't roll as much.
That would be an amazing idea for a new video, wouldnt it!??!? hint hint lol
OMG you mentioned me! I am so excited LOL Love your videos. My husband calls you my fairy god jeweler. :)
Beauty
Whow - Why so much Oxygen --- great for firescale !
You look 19 years younger
Boy jewelry making is tiring huh! Haha
Sarebbe interessante però il video è inutilmente lungo. Si perde un ora di tempo per far vedere una morsa...cose che si potrebbero spiegare in un minuto, vengono spiegate in un ora...sembra un film del cinema russo
Awesome video!