How to make a bezel and set a cabochon - Part one.
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2017
- This video is about making your own bezel strip, creating a bezel, soldering it to a backplate and trimming the backplate and a whole heck of a lot more! This is part one of a two part series.
In the second video, I'll demonstrate how I solder the bezel to a ring shank and set a cabochon. Coming soon!
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Your videos were just recommended to me and they're GREAT! Very informative, clear explanations with good filming with a wonderful sense of humor. Looking forward to following you!
Thank you so much. Now that summer markets have wrapped up I decided it's time to learn how to do this, another arrow in the quiver. Your videos are so very clear and informative, and you yourself are delightful, so it's nice to have you on while I beaver away at something. (People often ask me where I studied, and so I tell them about you & the University of UA-cam)
Your instructions are great because you explain in detail the things that you should watch for while trying to make the bezel. I have been going nuts trying to get my bezel right so this video was a great help.
Love everything about you and your videos! Keep doing what you’re doing
So appreciate all your teaching! Great videos and love your sense of humour!
Thanks Nancy. This was interesting and a good number of new and alternative ways to achieve the goal. Cheers. Looking forward to part two.
Thanks Nancy! You are the best teacher, ever!! I really learned a lot and love your commentary- really feel like I'm standing over your shoulder.
wow, you have such a way with your work and also such a way with your choice of words, what a turn on. hope to hear more from you with your very open words and feelings.
I went to jewelry school back in the early 80's and I guess no one had ever heard of the ribbon hack for checking stone size... at least no one bothered to tell US! LOL Seems like a natural thing to do, but... nope. I tried to rattle MANY stones out in the ultrasonic before drilling the dreaded hole in the base. If I ever DO make jewelry again, I'll NEVER forget this priceless tip! Thank you!
What is it with the schools? I took only one jewelry class, while I was in interior design school, at a very prominent school with an internationally know teacher - and never once did he mention even little basics like flex shafts that I recall. We certainly didn't get to use any.I spent half the class just trying to sand things by hand, which totally did in my older, partially arthritic digits, to the point that I wasn't even able to attempt setting a stone, and got a horrible grade for the class. My primary memories of it are about my instructor almost having a heart attack if I didn't have the torch flame *exactly* right, or, God forbid, used the "wrong" hammer. Something I had looked forward to doing for literally *decades* was ruined for me practically overnight and I swore off of it and even gave away half my tools. I've learned in the last few years between classes at my local beadshop, shows like Bead & Button, and UA-cam videos like Nancy's, that there are, in fact, much easier ways of doing things, and lo and behold, I actually *am* able to make jewelry without crippling myself! So why do the schools make it so damn difficult?
Nancy, I love all your videos - thank you for making all of them! You're genuine and humorous - and you make me giggle! I'm glad you're a jewelry gal!
Judy Konopka STRONGLY....AGREE....!
Your videos are internet gold. Your hair does look awesome, BTW. :)
Congratulations, great job. Thanks for sharing. Greetings straight from Brazil.
I love your videos! I always come away with something new, even if I already perform that technique! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. I can't wait for part 2!. You rock!
That was very comprehensive very well explained, even though I make them regularly always pick up some thing new can't wait for part 2
18:00 Is such a good tip. I always spend too long filing after soldering. Thank you very much.
Wow, this was really great..watching you in process, and all the tips along the way...inspire a lot of confidence..Thanks, Nancy! Yay!!
Thanks Nancy...you're informative and funny to boot ❤
As always so funky and great. ❤❤❤
Nancy is the BOMB! love her videos!
Nancy Thank you so much. I had never thought of using flux like glue ahead of adding solder. You have made the dreaded soldering so much easier.
This is the very best educational and understandable video on soldering I've found. love it and Ms. Hamilton
Love your videos! This is genius with the modeling clay!
I really enjoy your teaching Nancy! I have binge watched all your videos so I've been patiently waiting (NOT!) for your next video to come out! Thanks so much for all your do for the jeweler community!
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I love your videos! They are so informative. You are one crazy broad... and that is AWESOME!!! Seriously... I want to meet you someday. I'm only in the East Bay... not that far of a drive.
Thanks for all the great tips and info on measuring! You're the best!
very interesting and helpful, thanks for charing...
Thanks for all the great tips and trick and laughs!
Another awesome video. Thank you so much for sharing the craft.
Ten seconds in.. liked and subscribed!!! Lol love it!
I absolutely adore you! I am constantly dropping stuff on the floor...
Thanks for another great video. You are a trip! lol!
GREAT new opening...ya nut!! LOL love it!!
Just love you! Remind me of my mom:)
Love the trivet instead of a tripod.
Love these videos! What is the gage of the bezel wire material that you used?
Great as always.
If you open shears all the way, you will cut from the crux, very important.
Excellent!
Love your videos!Do you have anything showing how to bezel set a faceted stone?
Sooo helpful 🖤
This is super helpful, Nancy; thanks! I love knowing I don't have to be beholden to the stock items sold by the various vendors.
I love that hairstyle on you, too!
I've got a couple of questions.
I've got a few cabs that are completely (or almost completely) straight-sided - and also flat on top, and one of them is particularly small. What's the best way of dealing with this condition?
Also, my hands don't cope too well with manually sanding and polishing metal, which earned me a horrible grade in jewelry class in design school since I couldn't finish my projects, and made me swear off of metalwork for what I thought was going to be forever. Can't a flexshaft be used for all of that stuff you are filing, both inside and outside the bezel? Which little tool thingies for it would you use, especially to clean up the solder inside?
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I love your videos! Did you ever say what gauge sheet you used for the bezel?
Joni Filice she didn't say but you can see the guage written on the sheet as 24 ga for the side walls and then she talks about using heavier gage sheet like 22 ga for the back plate depending on the end use ie floating in space, attached to ring.
Hmm...I'm wondering, can you do this with mild steel wire that's been flattened instead of silver and such? I'm not being cheap, it's just that I have more access to common stuff as opposed to precious/semiprecious materials.
you can, its a lot more difficult to work however
What kind/brand is your digital caliper?? Mine is awful and I want a good one. Thanks Nancy!
Nancy, what material and gauge is the metal for the bezel?
sterling 24 gauge
.....I'm just curious: have you ever tried t make a "Raised Bezel", (by folding the edge over, and "raising" it, all the way around, by carefully hammering it , [vs one that is made by cutting a separate strip of sheet metal, and then soldering it onto a flat back piece]?.... I often see your method done, but, I would think that properly "raising" a bezel might even be faster, easier, and stronger, once mastered.
Where did you get those awesome calipers? Brand? Thanks.
leevalley.com is where I bought mine
THANK YOU Nancy for another A M A Z I N G video tutorial . I have been having great struggle with a bezel I have been working on. Third time round is a charm - right? I am not sure if my flame is correct or not? :(
What is the gauge of metal for the bezel?
You Are Super Fantastic!!!
I love your vids, and I love you. I like your attitude, and that jewellery is fun as well as a serious discipline.
I wondered please if you have any tips on polishing please?, as I am fed up with having a red face!, and rouge splattering everywhere. I guess that I should be wearing a mask, not just to hide my face LOL, but for health reasons. Not sure how you do this? Do you have a dedicated area for polishing?
Thank you x
you need an efficient exhaust system, a mask and safety glasses. Exhausts can be DIY cheaply in fact Nancy has a video tutorial on that as well
This is the first vid of your's that I watch, and I have questions... I would love to see your tool/equipment collection! Just from what I've seen on here, it has to be HUGE! ...and must have cost a fortune!!! I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to see a tour of your workshop, like other crafter's have shown. If you don't mind..
QUESTION: I didn't see you add flux on the sheet before you soldered the bezel to it. I am just starting to learn about soldering and can't wait to do more than just watch how-to's! :-)
I'm sure I have many more Q's but have too many other things on my mind right now. ...like my brand new grand baby that will arrive into this messed up world, on or before the 15th (July 2017)!!!! I can't wait to love on him and see what kind of mommy and daddy my daughter and son-in-law will make! ....and what kind of Grammie (or Mimi, MeMe, MeeMee????) I have asked my FB friends what they are called and for suggestions that they think would fit me.
Any suggestions here? This profile pic is kinda old, (about 7 yrs I think) but I am 49 and think of myself as a "young grandmother (not an option as a name). The above names are what I am considering right now. I'll probably try to be a Mother Hen, but my daughter most likely won't let me...
BTW, little Carter Anthony has 3 nieces that are older than him, a brother that is older than his mother and his daddy is older than ME!!!! ...ROTFLMBO!!! (brother is 33, Mommy is 29, Daddy is 53 and as I've said, I am 49 ...oh and a sister that is about 8)
Sorry bout the off-topic rambling!
she has a video of that :-)
What gauge is the metal sheet?
24 g
Thanks for another great video! What gauge is the bezel metal? BTW, I drop everything on the floor! It's nice to know I'm not the only one! : )
I saw 24 guage at the beginning of the video
Is the bezel's 'walls' the only thing that holds the cab on the ring ? is it better to glue it ?
Did I miss if you only use fine silver for the bezels? 925 is so hard to move.
start with half hard and you can always anneal just before setting the stone
Miss Nancy, can you tell me what is the thickness of the silver plate from which you cut the strip for the crimp. thank you
I believe its 24 gauge or about .05 mm if you watch the sheet she is cutting from there is a 24 marked in the corner. You can make any thickness some harder to push than others is all
OH and great hair!!! (I did and still do..hair!! and I "approve" lol) like it matters what I think..lmao
Oh no, I’m back in school in math class....this was supposed to be fun. You lost me, at math.
you don't need math to use the plasticine or polymer clay, nor the dividers or caliper. She shows two methods with math and without.
But..... Why I don't speak English??? 😭😭
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, Don't you think it's time for a Manicure ??? Shame on you...
I was a jeweler for many years (long since retired) and it's either MAKE jewelry or WEAR jewelry... no way to keep the hands looking good in MOST artistic trades... especially metal craft.
Todd Malibu I stress...gross