How to Make and Fuse a Bezel (1) (A Tight Fit is Everything!)
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2021
- How to Make and Fuse a Bezel 1 I'll demonstrate how to make a tight fitting bezel for an oval cabochon sapphire and how to fuse the fine silver bezel closed. These bezels will eventually form a bezel ring, an ancient style of ring with bezels going all the way around the finger. How to make a bezel is an essential technique for beginner metalsmiths so I recommend lots of practice. I melted piles and piles of bezels when I was learning, so just keep at it and your bezel fusing techniques will improve, I promise!
Love a teacher that can say "fucking" when referencing their work. Thanks for the pointers!
So glad you enjoyed it! :)
I HAVE LEARNED SOO SOO MUCH watching your videos! i am self taught and .. you have improved my work tenfold! im channeling you when i work!! lol thank you thank you! thank you! i just ordered a bunch of tools from Jewelry Arts Inc! and am soo excited to know how to use them!
You have no idea how happy that makes me! I love to share what I know. :) Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback.
Great job I’m learning each day from your guidance.
Thank you! I am so glad to hear that. I appreciate you taking the time to give feedback, it means a lot. :)
This really explains how to fuse so brilliantly. I shall be practicing this while waiting for bezel ring, 5 and 6. Thank you so much.
I am so glad you found it helpful! :) You are very welcome.
fun and informative as always , thank you :)
You are so very welcome! :)
LOVE your channel and am learning so much!!! Curious what the silver gauge and width is? It looks like butter! I started with Argentium ... now know that was not the way to go as a beginner silver smith.
This is 26 gauge fine silver, probably around 3 or 3.5 mm tall. Fine silver is lovely and soft to work with! :)
I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. :) I can't tell you how nice it is to get feedback.
I love your videos thank you so much )))
I am so glad you are enjoying them! And thank you for taking the time to comment. :)
This is fascinating. I love bezel setting, for both faceted and cab stones, because it provides a lovely secure setting that protects the stone, but I’ve never fused my bezels even tho I usually cut mine from 0.5 thickness fine silver plate. Dunno why cos I have done fusing using fine silver before, just never a bezel. Thank you for the information. I’ve subscribed and hope to see many more informative videos from you.
Lots more videos to come! :) Fusing is such a great method for bezels, one less solder seam to consider. :)
This ring project definitely provides practice grounds for making Iddy biddy bezels! Got the fusing down by Bez #4! I’m mixing 6x8 with 6x4 kingman cabs in FS… we shall see…
I am so glad you are finding it helpful! Be sure to let me know how it turns out. :)
Thanks so much for your lessons. I have 2 questions. 1) You said after fusing you can put it on a mandrel and move it around....please I would like to understand what the objective of that could be especially since the mandrel is round and the bezel is oval or could be any other shape? 2) if making a ring, must the bezel be soldered on a back plate first before mounting on the ring? Should the backplate be sterling or fine silver, fused or soldered? Wish you could show us a process with a ring from start to finish. Thanks so much. I'm a beginner and a new sub and I'm learning so much from you.looking forward to your response
The objective is to smooth all all the lumps and bumps, I only do that for a round or oval stone, easy to reshape an oval. For fancy shapes , I just poof out the side with the seam, clean up and retweak the bezel to fit the stone. Generally the bezel should be attached to backsheet and anything else (wires, etc) before you attach to the ring shank. The choices for fused, soldered, sterling, fine silver, etc depend on what else is going on in the design and doesn't have a set answer, it varies with the variables. :) I have lots of videos showing all stages of construction progress, keep watching and you start to see how it all works.
@@JewelryArts thanks so much for your response. I appreciate it.
@@valerie4710 You are very welcome! :)
Hello Jeanette,
thank you very much for your very informativ video. I appreciate it a lot, that you explain exactly why you are doing or not doing something👍🙂.
I have two questions... Is there a reason not to use flux in this case and does this technic works also for sterling silver?
Have e a nice weekend.
Greetings from Germany
Maren 🤗🤗🤗
You are very welcome! Flux is not helpful for fusing fine silver, it just gets in the way. Sterling won't fuse nicely, so if you use sterling bezels, solder them shut. :)
@@JewelryArts Thank you very much for your soon answer. I learn again and again😁👍
@@marenc9648 You are most welcome! Let me know how it turns out. :)
Hi, this is so helpful, thank you so much!!... I have a question... are the shears for general sheet? Cheers, Rob
Hi Robin I use my shears for sheet up to 20 gauge, then I saw. :)
Do you have any tips on growing nasturtiums? Thanks!
LOL! Sorry but goldsmithing is my wheelhouse. :)
What is the difference between fusing and soldering? Why one vs the other?
When you fuse you melt the metal together, soldering you add metal to fill in the seam. :)
@@LouMarcotte You are very welcome! :)