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Stone Setting - PPT Presentation

Bezel Setting Your Ring 1 Measure the bezel Take a piece of paper and wrap it around the edge of your stone to the EXACT fit Mark it and cut it Take paper and measure it to bezel Mark with sharpie ID: 569928

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Slide1

Stone Setting

Bezel Setting Your RingSlide2

1. Measure the bezel

Take a piece of paper and wrap it around the edge of your stone to the EXACT fit. Mark it and cut it.

Take paper and measure it to bezel

Mark with sharpieSnip itSlide3

2. Make sure ends are straight and flat

File straight if needed, using a flat needle fileSlide4

3. Fit your ends

No light should shine through

Overlap and pull back for a tight fit

Just like a band ring, only more delicate… kind of like a giant jump ring…Slide5

5. Pickle

Just like the band ring, but with a

smAller

flame (little baby orange flame)!

4. Solder togetherSlide6

6. Shape the Bezel

Push your stone throughSlide7

7. See that the bezel is level

Place flat on your base piece…

If unleveled, gently sand the bottom edges of your bezelSlide8

8. Saw base to fit bezel

9.

Put jeweler’s mark on bottom of baseSlide9

10. Prepare to solder

Flux

Place 3-4 solder

pallions on the inside of the bezelSlide10

11. Solder

More heat- Bigger flame

Start low, dry out solder, slowly move closer

Make sure you are circling the bezel from the undersideSlide11

QUENCH

Quench in water…

And THEN PickleSlide12

12. Saw base to bezel

Saw excess base

Give yourself space

You don’t want to cut the bezelSlide13

13. File base to bezel

You now have your bezel!Slide14

Pencils Down

Stand up and stretch…

Do five jumping jacks…

Rub your neck…Take a big yawn…Slide15

Pencils Down

In your table, have the person who has the closest birthday to today, explain how you make a ring band… trust me, this part relates to what we are about to address…

Pencils UpSlide16

14. Measure ring size

15. Cut half round

wire to ring size

16. Treat it

like a ring band- file and solder

17.

Grind/file one small edge flatSlide17

18. Solder to base

Place bezel upside down

Flux

Put ring band on top (filed edge on base)Place solder next to ring shank and on baseHeat from top

Hold ring shank in place if needed to prevent movement from heatSlide18

QUENCH

Quench in water…

And THEN PickleSlide19

19. Place StoneSlide20

20. Bezel Pusher

Start at twelve o’clock

Move to six o’clock

Then to three o’clockAnd 9 o’clockContinue to push in bezel in this patternSlide21

21. Burnish Bezel

Glide burnishing tool around the edges of the bezel to secure tightnessSlide22

22. Buff and finish

Buff ring shank on both wheels

Only buff bezel on soft wheel