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RE: Making a Garnet Ring with Offset Band- Metalsmithing
I really liked the look of the sandpaper texture, I didn't realize you could do things like that! How do you make the bezel look so tight around the stone?
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Thank-you! Yes, sterling silver will take on just about any texture you can imagine if you know what you're doing and have the right equipment! In this case, the silver was made very soft and pliable by heating & cooling several times throughout the process.
As for the bezels, there's no trick to it really. The silver bezel wire gets wrapped around the stone and measured/cut to size (you can kinda see what I mean in the first pic of this post), then shaped and soldered closed before being soldered onto a backplate. I'll for sure try to take a better pic of that part of the process during my next piece. Thanks for the great comment!
thanks for this recommendation @mastersa