Open Backed Bezel: a how-to video
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- How to make a simple open backed bezel setting for a gemstone. Looking to use less metal for a large gemstone, or create a "window" for a translucent gem? Here is a how-to video explaining just that.
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Great analogy with the sewing machine needle. Great video.
Thank you!
Excellent instructions. THANKS.
@harrietrossow2505 I'm so glad it was helpful! Happy creating!
I enjoyed your video, Thanks for sharing
I really enjoy your videos and by the look of your bench top, you are a very busy silversmith! Congratulations! Lots of dedicated work!
Thank you! You are right, I'm always quite busy... orders to fill, art shows to prep for, and test pieces for the jewelry classes I teach. :D
Thank you for the sewing machine needle tip! It makes perfect sense.
Thanks so much for doing this video!!
What a great tutorial, thanks for showing us.
You're very welcome!
Great video Emmy - lovely pace, lots of useful info and easy to understand - thank you x
Hi Emmy, Im glad that I found your video since I'm practicing the exact thing you showed. My question is, what is the gauge of the backplate you were using? Thanks
Hi there! I'm sorry I'm so late getting back to you, it's been a busy time of year... it was between 20 and 22 gauge.
I Love your tutorial. I am new in metalsmithing. I am still taking classes, and wanting to get new techniques. I learn a lot with this type of videos. Thank you. You have a new subscriber.
Thank you for your kind words! I'm hoping to make more, I'm awful with cameras and right now trying to work while making sure my daughter is doing her online schoolwork is taking up all of my time. No one needs to hear me yelling to do her math work in the middle of a demo. ;)
@@EmmyBeanJewelry Thank you for reading my message. I hear you. I am in the same way with my 10 year old.
Hang in there... so many of us in the same boat right now, we'll make it through. :)
Thank you so much, you give me confidence and i was able to bezel 3mm gem and 1.5mm gem - love your videos - now going to tackle to bezel 4mm square peridot
That's fantastic! Congratulations on your success! Confidence and practice will get you far. :)
@@EmmyBeanJewelry for sure I have to practice, my hands shake from excitement and I can't wait and am very patient and I forgive myself if I can't, so I try again, and just love it - thank YOU so much
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This is so helpful! Especially the pickle part :P I didn’t know about the tongs and I was going to make my own pickle ‘juice’. I think I’ll get the one you use instead. Haha
To make your own pickle, I used to use a 1:4 ratio of table salt to white distilled vinegar. It works just fine, can take longer to use than commercially prepared pickle, but great in a pinch. As for the tongs (and anything else that goes into the pickle pot): absolutely no steel! It will contaminate the pickle, anything that gets put in the solution will be covered in copper, and its a pain to clean it all off. Stick to copper or bamboo tongs-in a pinch, use a pair of bamboo chopsticks and rubber-band the ends together (with a bit of paper in between for space) to make them into tongs. If you have lots of little bits you don't want to go "fishing" for in the pickle pot, use a paper coffee filter or a plastic berry basket (if you can find them, not sure how much they're used these days).
Emmy Bean Jewelry good to know!!! Thanks for all the details. 😊😊 ps the video looked great! Good camera angle and could see all of what you were doing 🤗
Thank you! Now if you were going to make this into a ring, how would you attach the ring wire onto that back since it has no middle? Could you make a video about that?
That's a great question! It wouldn't be a difficult process, just require lots of precision since it would be two points of contact for soldering. I will add that to my list of "projects to film." :) I'm still working on figuring out my new camera, and hope to do some filming soon.
Besides aesthetics I was thinking another benefit of cutting out the back is that it allows the gem stone to contact the skin, which some people attribute some benefit but also allow light to shine through some materials. Just a thought
You are correct, some people like to have the gemstone touch their skin for a variety of reasons.
Having "light shine through" is a common misconception, however. When light shines through a translucent/transparent gemstone, it truly shines when that light is reflected back, i.e. the polished metal inside a setting acting like a mirror. Compared to metal, skin isn't very reflective, in fact, it often dulls the look of a translucent/transparent stone and depending on skin tone, changes the look of the gemstone completely. For the most brilliant looking translucent/transparent gemstones, a closed setting is best.
Emmy Bean Jewelry thank you 🙏🏽
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Thanks for the great video! What are your go-to saw blades and what size do you prefer? I got some from an Etsy shop and they aren't very good quality saw blades and they leave lots of burrs and lots of clean up is necessary. TIA :-)
My go-to saw blades are Laser Gold size 2/0, available exclusively from Rio Grande. For fine detailed sawing, I use 4/0 size. To make the most of any saw blade, be sure to use Bur Life, beeswax... some sort of lubricant so the blade can work more efficiently, and not get gummed up by metal shavings.
Wait, I'm confused, I thought an open backed bezel was open backed? No back plate. But your video is using a back plate...???
An open backed bezel means there's a backplate with a window cut out of it, there's still something for the gemstone to sit on, otherwise it would fall right through. A bezel setting with zero backplate is a frame bezel... that's a completely different style, with specialty equipment. 😉
Another wonderful video thanks for sharing