I love this pattern, I'm going to attempt to make one for my 5 year old
daughter. :-) I love all your patterns, you make things easy to understand
and you are clear with everything your doing!!! Keep the patterns
coming....your the best!
DO you know how to make connected earrings for one ear? Like, for example,
you have 2 lobe piercings on one ear and the earring has two posts and a
chain connecting them together so you could wear the earring for both holes?
Studio Vlog 16 - Setting Faceted Stones, My T Flux and More!
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so sorry, my bad. Thje stamping tool you used on that really wide band with the big "X's" on it. It looked like a long flat rectangular piece of metal, you used to make the lines.Thank you so much, I'm sure you're way too busy to search through your old blogs.
Hi M, I recently read about using spray flux, and you make a good point
about the charcoal block- it DOES get gunked up by all spray flux. John
Huesler (lapidary and jewelry artiste extraordinaire) suggests getting and
using a ceramic honey-comb block (Rio has them) for the heating and
spraying part, then moving the piece(s) to charcoal to solder. The spray
flux runs down into the honeycomb surface and this saves your charcoal
block. I tried it, it's great! I use Firescoff and My-T-flux too but mostly
love Handy Flux. I find that the My-T- flux seems to bead up and not always
give me the coverage I need if I can't heat a bit first. Just sharing my
experience! Hope that is of some use to you.
+meshedesigns Thats exactly what I use it for- only. I too found that the honey comb seemed like it took more time and heat to solder on. But the spray thing seems to work, especially for my beginning gold work. I actually am trying to use up some gold-filled I bought when I didn't know better. Rio sells it like its the same as silver- HAH! NOT! I called them out (nicely) on that and they admitted that its not really good for soldering, mostly for fabrication without heat (HUH??) and cold-connections - yeah, ok.Its difficult but I'm at least learning the hard way (argh!). Ok, Ill stop gabbing LOL!
+Gabby Flying Chef Hey gabby, I actually will be doing a full review on the my flux after my next blog and Q&A video. I have tried the honey comb blocks in the past bot a fan personally. Thank you for all the suggestions. Maybe I can try it again for just when I'm using the My T Flux we shall see :) xo
Michelle, thanks for all of the great tips. Attempting to make the thick
ring with "step" bezel! Wish me luck!
Also my last post came through from my husband's email! Oops! Continuing to
love the videos!
Do you use the Fordham to set all of your bezel stones incl larger ones?
I'm having a tough time getting the bezel to look nice with my bezel
roller! :( LOVE these videos! You make my mornings!
+Scott Grivois Hi Scott thanks for watching :) No I don't I use it with mainly faceted stones and for the settings I wax carve and I need more pressure than my hand can give. It just takes time and practice for your bezels to look really smooth. Make sure you roll your bezel pusher or roller north south east west. Also do tiny increments of metal at each push so you don't get any wonky crimps. Hope that helps a little thanks glad I can make your mornings a new video will be up soon!
bether is buy a half liter wodka put some in a bottle or vesel ad borax
pouder dip your piesis in it set them solder ready than light them and let
them burn out.
than you have 2 prows you fire scaled them and there surdy on the plate to
solder them.
cheap and easy.
oh end you get a nicer finnis if you pick solder the bezzels from the
inside.
greets from holland.