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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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