SILVER BEZEL for cabochon STEP BY STEP with list of tools. How to make a bezel setting.
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Today I will show you how I make a silver bezel setting for cabochon using jewelry metalsmithing tools and small butane hand torch! I will share step by step how I shape, cut, sand and solder the bezel using sterling and fine silver. This video includes a list of BASIC tools that you will need - it's not extensive and additional tools could be very useful, like mitre jig.
I’m not a professionally trained jeweller or a goldsmith. I’m learning myself and today I wanted to share one way of how I do things! I’m not claiming that I “know it all” nor that my way is the only right way. I hope you can approach this video keeping that in mind. And hopefully I was able to help some of you or at least provide entertainment! 😊
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⭐️ SOME OF THE TOOLS I USE:
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- Third hand: amzn.to/4bgB9jJ
- Soldering tripod: amzn.to/3JljTxC
- Soldering block (honeycomb): amzn.to/4azIgnp
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- Solder pick: amzn.to/3UkLoO0 or amzn.to/3W6otHB
- Borax cone US: amzn.to/3W2A0Yt
- Hot plate for pickling: amzn.to/3xGZ8tP or amzn.to/3UiMie2
- Glass beaker amzn.to/4d3rSgg or glass bowl amzn.to/4cUlkRj
- Basic saw frame: amzn.to/4aUBbgP
- Saw frame: amzn.to/3U2jULN
- Bench peg: amzn.to/3w6LIGO
- Bench peg and anvil: amzn.to/49GfUGJ
- Saw blades: amzn.to/43YYMe9
- Dremel 3000 hand rotary tool set: amzn.to/3U2EqvZ
- Dremel 4000 hand rotary tool set: amzn.to/3U14Q11
- Dremel Flex Shaft Attachment: amzn.to/3xJmaQQ
- Foredom Rotary Tool - amzn.to/3vVGMEI
- Center punch: amzn.to/3JkV9FR
- Rawhide mallet: amzn.to/3vXYs2I
- Ball pein hammer: amzn.to/3W3ZFAa
- Chasing hammer: amzn.to/3UahCKS
- Ring clamp: amzn.to/3JjcIGi
- Ring bezel pusher: amzn.to/3xBCH9f
- Set of pushers: amzn.to/3Uknpyq
- Burnisher: amzn.to/3UkE4lt or Agate knife burnisher amzn.to/49LH3I5
- Barrel (tumbler) polisher: amzn.to/3xyraaE
- Ring measuring mandrel: amzn.to/4aWF2do
- Ring measuring tools set (mandrel, mallet, sizer): amzn.to/3xBD0AV
- Half round pliers: amzn.to/49EJtbF
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- Pliers SET: amzn.to/441lJgI
- Wire Cutting pliers: amzn.to/3Q6BGMP
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- Steel block for bench top: amzn.to/4aVPeCF
- Selection of sandpapers: amzn.to/3Q5GZMl
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⭐️ GEMSTONES RESOURCES (PDF to download):
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⭐️ TUTORIALS - HOW TO MAKE:
UNISEX RING step by step tutorial: • HOW TO MAKE A RING - t...
BEZEL step by step tutorial: • SILVER BEZEL for caboc...
RING from start to finish: • How to make a ring - f...
LABRADORITE RING: • How to make a ring wit...
EASY STACKIG RINGS: • How to make EASY STACK...
AN EASY PENDANT: • HOW TO MAKE A PENDANT ...
STUD EARRINGS: • How to make Alpaca ste...
STEAMPUNK RING: • STEAMPUNK ring - turni...
GOLD FILLED STUDS: • How to make GOLD FILLE...
⭐️ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Metal starter pack: • BASIC METAL for silver...
Most Basic Tools: • MOST BASIC SILVERSMITH...
Books to learn silversmithing: • Silversmithing BOOKS &...
DIY workbench: • Easy DIY JEWELER'S BEN...
How to fill a butane torch: • Learn silversmithing: ...
Soldering surfaces: • My SOLDERING SURFACES ...
Rotary tool and flex shaft attachments: • Pendant motor ATTACHME...
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Here are similar videos if you're learning how to make bezels:
⭐️ How to make a DECORATIVE BEZEL for cabochon using gallery wire: czcams.com/video/ZpTS4s6wXSU/video.html
⭐️ How to make an OPEN BACK bezel: czcams.com/video/L7MsvGqJlMA/video.html
I don't think it's possible to express how encouraging your videos are.. thank you so much for sharing your journey with us! 💞👍
wow, that truly means so much to me! Thank you Vinette, really glad you enjoy my videos :))
100 % agreed
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I made my first silver ring today after binging your videos in lockdown ☺️ thank you for making jewellery making accessible and providing so many helpful videos! It’s something I have always wanted to do
That's so wonderful Sarah! So happy to hear that 😀❤ You will have a lot of fun with this, I'm sure
You have just given me a lot more confidence to try this myself. Your very relaxing manner in this video conveys a certain 'you can do this' vibe, it helps starting out jewellers like me to no end.
Hiya Lady Stardust, wow, 169 comments on this video! Okay, some are you, okay and me, but person after person saying, thank you for a wonderful video. A wonderful help for starters on this journey. Well over a hundred people all learning to be jewellery makers, it says a lot for this profession that so many people can design and want to learn. These are just the learners fortunate enough to have found you who decided to comment. 55,454 people have watched this lesson, how many have learned from you? A lot of us I would say!
Stay safe, Steve...
".....or a chair..."! I LOVE her!!! Every new (and older) channel re-invents the wheel: ("How to make a bezel.........zzzzzzzz."). BUT (!!) I must say, this was the most entertaining, spot-on - LOVE the comments of insecurity - video of said wheel reinvention. It's a REAL experience! Basia kicks butt with her little torch (I love the big sigh she breathes when describing her torch limitations). I wish this was the first one I ever watched when I was learning that project first. Basia is a fantastic teacher, so approachable, encouraging, it's like she's got her cheerleading uniform on complete with pom-poms, rooting for the watchers/students' success! Her video is truly fun, and delightfully (and refreshingly) humble. Who doesn't love that in a teacher and guide?
I AM SO HAPPY I found your page, thank you for sharing!
I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR THOROUGH TUTORIAL! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!
Always excellent sharing, fun and humble -refreshing!
Thank you! Gorgeous pieces!
Very good video..straight to the point, and not beating around the bush. Definitely worth a subscription. thanks
I have always been curious about how to make pendants from cabochons. While there is a lot of work that goes into it, you made it look so easy. Your designs are beautiful and I really like how you explained everything so well. Great job making that pendant!
Thank you for posting your process!
I've just learnt how to solder jump rings and very interested in making bezels. This is so inspiring ♥️
I'm glad I came across your channel. I'm learning so much from your videos
Fantastic! I’m a beginner and yours is the most helpful video I saw until now! It annihilated all my beginner’s fears! Thank you very much 🙏💖 and please keep teaching us the way you do! Clear & so informative! A gold mine 🔨 💎
Wow, thanks for this thorough tutorial! Everything makes sense when I watch your videos! 😊😊😊
This is such a helpful video for trying to teach yourself the ways around silver smithing! I would love some advice about the intricate designs you add around the bezel cause I can’t seem to find many videos that explain how to do that kind of thing. Thanks so much!!
I am so grateful that you share your knowledge so willingly and freely! I am a beginner and your videos have helped me so much. And I appreciate your positive and kind outlook! Your pieces are so beautiful and I aspire to be able to create that well one day. Many thanks!
You sound so sweet and polite when you talk! Loved this video. Detailed and to the point.
oh my, thank you so much! That's so kind ❤
I love your designs…I too I’m still learning silversmithing and love to see all the creative designs then adapt my own design. Thank you again for sharing
Beautiful and simple. I like this because I don’t have a lot of patience to spend a lot of time on extra ordinary. Minimal is just as great. Thank you so much!! Your jewelry is beautiful 🌺
I really enjoy your presentation! Keep it coming!👍🏻
Thank you so much for this channel, i have been looking for this kind of channel to inspir me to start my own journy and to self learn metal working, you just did! Thank you!!!
I think you are amazing, so inspiring and encouraging! Your jewellery is beautiful ♥️♥️ Thank you for helping and sharing.
Thank you for your video. You do a good job. It's pretty simple to understand
Beautiful! Thankyou, I’m just starting and it’s good to see you can do it not being professional! God bless
Great video! So thorough and easy to follow! Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Glad it was helpful! My pleasure, I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it :)
I enjoyed this video.Thank you
I ADORE your videos!! You provide such inspiration! Love. Love. Love. The malachite cab is gorgeous!! Truly an artist! 💟
Thank you so so much for this wonderful comment, I appreciate it a lot! ❤ And thank you for watching, so happy to have you here :)
loved this video! so easy to follow! thank you...
you are a perfectionist thats the most important quality in a jeweler
thank you so much!
That's was very nice. Thank you for the explanation. I love the way you working on. 👍👍🤩🌹
Very informative! Wonderful presentation -- I learned a lot from watching this - thank you s0 much for making it!
I love this so much! Very helpful. Would you be able to do a video for how to make them embellishments at the bottom of the bezel? I'm not sure where to start with making things like those.
You did an amazing job! I look forward to more videos. 🌹
I love this video! i knew some stuff but now, i definitely know more stuff, thank a ton!🤍
That came out so beautiful!!
Thank you 🥰
Thank you for presenting things simply for the novice. l am not long into this journey and continue to learn from videos such as yours. Thank you for sharing.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for watching and your kind feedback 😊❤
Hi! I love your videos, the way you take your own mistakes with such a good sense of humour and how well you explain the processes. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate this 💗 And happy you enjoyed watching! :)
the result is sooooooooooooooooooooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you think so 🥰❤️
Beautiful cabs
Thank you so much for sharing your video clear and informative ❤
Thank you for sharing!!! Exactly the tutorial I needed rn!
I'm very happy to hear that! Thank you so much for watching :))
Love your videos! Thank you!
I love your videos and have learnt a lot. Please ignore the negative people out there - they're only happy if they're unhappy!
I want to say thank you and I really appreciate the work you put into your videos they’re very precise. Excellent thanks.
Thank you so much! Very much appreciated 💕🌸 I'm glad you're finding value in them
I'm currenty mining tsavorite and tourmaline in taita taveta, and this video is very useful
I am so struggling with ear infection/tinnitus/feeling miserable and this is so calming I have watched it 3 times so thank you
I'm so sorry to hear that you're suffering! Ugh, I really hope you'll get better soon 😊❤ And I'm happy this video could cheer you up, get well!
I'm just starting my journey as a jeweller, and I find your videos extremely helpful and super well produced! Thank you x1000
that's amazing to hear! I'm sure you will have a lot of fun with it. Good luck my dear 😍🌞
Thank you so much!! This step by step video was so helpful and really helped pinpoint what I need to do to better set my bezels!!!! 🙌🙌 thanks again for the great content!
Glad it helped! Thank you so much for watching ❤️
awesome work
Really wonderful. Thanks
Thank you for sharing. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
In the figure of 8!Love it:)
Your videos are extremely helpful as a complete beginner! After watching your videos, I have a better idea of what tools to buy and the basics of making a ring and bezel. You are wonderful!!! Thank you thank you!
Great to hear! Thank you so much for watching 💗
Amazing job. Thank you for the video💗
Thanks for watching!
Excellent tutorial. Love your suggestion of a chair. This tells me, as a beginner, that I can adapt your technique to my existing environment, investing in the necessary equipment as my budget allows! Looking forward to watching all of your videos. Thank you! 🇨🇦
Thank you very much! I'm so happy to hear that, it means a lot!
Basia I'm in love! Great video
Wonderful, thank you so much!
Very simple and well explained. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching :)
hiya flower good one again, I started of with one of those little torches I was forever filling them with gas costing a fortune, I saved my pennies up for quite some time then I invested in the eze torch or orca as its called uses propane, 25ltr bottle I think it was about £23 but lasts for ages, you do not need any oxygen with it as you mix it on the torch think its ambient air or something , when I was using one of those small torches I think I got about 3/4 bezels done then ran out of gas half way through another made me sick, I think the torch was just over a $100 when I got mine but I highly recommend it, for someone just starting out its cheaper than the little torch set up or if your on a tight budget, those small tins of propane gas 3,4,5,£ per tin depending where you live fills the torch 3/4 times or you forgot to replace and run out half way through a project and the shop is shut arrgg, take care keep well keep safe very much look forward to your next vlog.
I AGREE! I've heard that the Orca/EZ torch is the most common/used torch around the world for just those great reasons you mentioned. Simple and great price. I have yet to use my Smith Little (given to me by a retiring jeweler), love my simple (Smith Silversmith - similar to Orca and far less expensive...) torch.
Love your videos Teachinhing myself too and appreciate all your tips!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you like them and I hope they will help you learn :)
I love everything you're doing! :-)
Please please please can you do a full polishing video! I’d love to see something like this as I’m learning jewellery smithing myself and always struggle polishing! Would be really informative if you could include how to polish different metals and also the process you use to get out really big scratches ❤️
Great idea! I have it on my list and will make one in the near future 🌺😊
Very nice! I'm learning silversmithing too!
So happy to hear that! I hope you enjoy it, it's a lot of fun :)) Good luck!
Love love love yout videos & you!
Thank you so much for this ❤
you're very welcome! Thank you for watching!
wonderfully inspirational video. thankyou! you helped me and entertained me all the same.
I'm very glad to hear that Steven, thank you!
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Thanks for the informative video! I feel confident to make my opal pendants after seeing this
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you so much for watching, good luck with your bezels! :))
Loved the dental floss idea. That was BRILLIANT! 👍
It really is a life saver! 💖 Thank you for watching :)
Another great video -- very much enjoyed watching as I haven't been at my bench since April due to returning back to work and COVID. Thanks for sharing your tips!
Glad you enjoyed it dear and I really hope you will be able to come back to your bench and start crafting soon 😍❤️
Great lessons...love it..
This is amazing
Thank you!!! This helps a lot!!!
You're welcome! Glad it helps, thank you for watching 😍😍❤
Thank you!
Nice! It looks like you're a professional to me.
That's very kind, thank you! ❤️🙏
Excellent video!
Tip on measuring height of bezel? I can’t always visualize well the “curve” of the stone.
Also, how do you draw the backplate extra evenly or nicely to leave room for embellishments or twisted wire etc?
wow, your designs are breathtaking, your videos are very helpful, greetings from Australia
Thank you so much! It means a lot that you think so :) Sending best wishes from Poland!
Hi Basia, I love your videos thanks for making them! I’m just making some space to start making, but wanted to know what pickle you use and if it gives of much of a smell?
Thank you.
You're very welcome! :)
nice job enjoyed your style greatly!
Thanks a lot! That's great to hear :)
So so detailed and helpful! I absolutely love your videos! Would you be able to share the size/gauge of the bezel strip? Is there one that can be used for most stones? Also, would you recommend the same gauge for gold filled metal sheet as you’re using here? Thanks in advance!
I found some useful tips through this video but I would like to watch you finish the bezel please? More bezeling videos please?? :)
Will do! Thanks so much for watching ❤️
you're awesome. thank you
You are! :)) Thank you so much for watching ❤️
I love your videos, thank you. I melted my 999 bezel yesterday and now I see why. 😬😆🤣
oh no, that must've been painful... But without it you wouldn't learn and I know that now you'll know exactly how to improve and avoid melting it again in the future :) I'm glad you find my video helpful too, thank you! Wishing you all the best ❤
Thanks so much for making this video Basia - I’m soon to make a similarly large bezel ring. Would using a tripod and heating underneath (and of course a bit on top) be another way to help the solder flow and prevent any accidental melting of the bezel 🤪
Also, do I use hard solder for this? Your feedback will be really appreciated. Thank you 🥰
thank you for this! could you possibly show where you got each necessary item you're using in the video, on a list? trying to get started with the least amount of supplies. thank you!
Thanks!
Thank you so much Gabriel! That's very kind of you! ❤
Hi, I first wanted to thank you for the video, I reckon it will help me a lot!! But I was wondering, would this method work for an epoxy resin pendant in which I want both sides to be visible??
Your very good in what you do and i love your designes well done and keep it up,may be that father Christmas might get you a bigger torch!!!!!
oooh, that would be amazing! haha 😃 We hope to change the place in the Spring, so I may finally be able to use normal torch! Can't wait :))
Hi,What size bezel and backplate are you using here? Thank you. I'm just starting out and your videos are really helpful.
Thanks for all yours video... do you think is total wrong to use a drop of glue to block the gem to the bezel ?
Thanks so much for sharing this video! Very inspiring and educational. I was wondering if you would be willing to do a video on making a pendant with an open back? I have not been able to find a video on how to do that and those are my favorite types of pendants when the stone is exposed in the front as well as back. :)
Great suggestion! I'll make one soon 😄 It's easier than you think!
Your so lovely and your videos are so useful! Xx
Glad you like them! Thank you so much 💕
Hiya Lady Stardust, very good video, again, thank you... I have the same problem as you being in a rented flat & unable to use a large or mixed gas torch. What I've done is get the larger version of my small torch from Cooksongold, the one Andrew has on his bench. It's small enough not to be a problem with my landlord... But big enough to take over when my small one has run out of heat... Worth trying? Stay safe... Steve...
Thx 🙏🏻 you so much! Could you please do a video on how you add the embellishments ie silver balls etc 🤍🤍🤍🤍😃
I will! Great suggestion, thank you! 😊
@@TheArtOfMetalsmithing Oh yay! 😄👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
useful!
glad to hear that, thank you for watching!
Thank you so much. I absolutely love your videos. I haven’t officially started soldering, but I’m gathering info and supplies. What are your thoughts on the paste solder that comes in the syringe with flux in it? I feel confused about the type of solder to use! Any info would be so appreciated 🙏
Hi! Thanks so much for watching and your comment ❤️ he paste is great, but definitely for small elements. It wont replace the traditional solder. I tried experimenting, and know for sure that it's a waste and it just doesn't work as well. But it's amazing for little balls, flowers and any small elements! :)) So definitely get the regular solder, for example the wire one or sheet, that you can cut into small pieces and use with the flux. And you can also get a paste for these small elements :)
Hello you! Good that you mentioned fire stains! What do you recommend in case of one? How do you deal with them?
You use pickle which is a mild acid to clean it.