In part two of our five-part series on making a bezel, Art Jewelry magazine associate editor Addie Kidd shows you how to solder your bezel into a ring. [For more visit www.ArtJewelryMag.com]
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Good points, all around. I do generally prefer to start with hard solder too. It more closely matches the color of the other metal.
It is also easier to just set the solder at the bottom and the heat will pull it up onto the bezel. Using fine silver also prevents some fire scale. Oh, for myself, I find it better to use hard solder, even though it may require a high temperature to flow and I usually only apply heat to the joints.
wow ..such a primitive way .But …work make U master :)
I think the best use of metal clay is for when you can take full advantage of its unique properties. Meaning: I could quickly sculpt an object with metal clay, but if I were to fabricate something precise, I’d probably choose the clean lines of sheet metal instead.
Have fun exploring!
~Addie~
Good Question! :)
Silver metal clay (and its cousins copper, bronze, and gold clays) is a great medium to play with. I have used all of those clays and had excellent results.
That said, I generally prefer traditional metal and metalsmithing techniques since that’s what I was trained in. The skill sets needed to use clay vs. metal are just too different to compare directly.
Hi there Addie, nice work. Hey, one question. What do you think of this silver clay thing going on lately? Is it as good as working with the regular old school silver sheets? Do you use it? Thanks
the white part of the flame is called a flangie or finger
thank you for posting this video. i’m looking forward to trying this myself… off to do it!
A coating of flux is never a bad thing, and it definitely helps to prevent firescale.
But plenty of jewelers, like myself, only flux the join area and not the entire piece. Then it’s a matter of careful torch control to make sure that the sterling silver doesn’t overheat and produce firescale.
dont you need to flux the whole bezel since its silver? i thought you’d get firescale without a coating of flux on it because of the small amounts of copper in it. is it because your silver is softer?
Ale bzdety!!!!!!!!!!!! Cz?owiek na chleb by nie zarobi?!
Haha, yeah we say it like sewlder, sew being pronounced like so and pronouncing the L..
Yeah, I haven’t seen a whole lot of other jewelers who flip theirs either. That’s just my trick for making sure I’ve got it fully joined. Whatever works for you is the best way to go!
:) That is funny.
How would you say it…with more of an L in there?
I usually don’t bother flipping the bezel to fill the seam completely, but I take much, much longer than this video. :P
Americans say solder funny! Sodder..
Sounds so strange :) Good video, thank you!
Thank you so much for the video. Very informative.
All in all for one small part of a project, this was a good video, they hade good camera and camera person, I would have done a few things different, I have found that very thin Fine silver will weaken and louse its memory at the last moment if you heat the entire bezel ring, that’s why I keep all my heat right at the point of solder, but hay if it works for you cool, the task is to complete the goal not too get raped up by the obstacles. Good vid.
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