HANDCRAFTED RINGS
LET’S GET Get your stone and bezel wire. Wrap the bezel wire around your stone and make a mark with your sharpie. Make the cut with your wire cutters. If the newly cut wire is flat, use your mandrel and hammer to make it into a circle.
Once your bezel wire has some curve, bring the two ends close together so there is no gap. Place the closed bezel wire on your soldering block, then place flux and a piece of hard solder where the two ends meet.
Heat the entire bezel wire until it bubbles, then concentrate your flame where your solder is. Because the bezel wire is so thin, you must be careful when heating up the metal to ensure it does not melt. Look for the solder to flow, you can tell when you metal turns from dull to shiny.
Quench your bezel wire and quickly place it into your warm pickle pot. You only need to keep it in for a few seconds, just to get the fire scale off.
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