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Ive been learning how to do a simpe stone setting, I melted the bezel strip and had a wobbler crushed it up with pliers and threw it on the floor....

It's not doomed, it just needs a new approach. If it hasn't come to you after a good nights sleep, lay it open on the forum. Dennis.

Etsy don't give a monkey's. Perhaps picking something that has a nice smelling smoke...? Besides, as ne fule noes, you want a waterjet in the...

Action Learning is the key; use what you have learned during the process what went right or wrong, write it down if needed and use it next time! If...

Show me somebody who claims to never have made a mistake and I'll show you a liar :) I tend to look at it, learn from it then just move on, not...

Hi glassartist :) Jett Sett is basically polymorph with another brand name. All it does is hold the fired piece securely so it doesn't deform. The...

Hi, On Youtube, there is a video explaining how to stamp PMC after being fired. Since I am new here, I can't post the URL so just search "stamping...

Well, at least it isn't a happy meal toy (or have I got the wrong Tom McDowell?) :) What're the materials you've used for that?

Depends on how long I've spent on it and how expensive the materials are. I just moan a bit and move on normally.

Bikini weather! My new mermaid brooch :)

I'm a bit of a pollyanna, so it either goes in the scrap pot or, more usually, gets turned into something else. If it's something I'm really not sure...

Yay post pics if you do it! :D X

Thank you Pat. It's not my design, it's from a very similar one from the Book of Kells. Most of my designs come from old knotwork panels, standing...

Thank you! I hadn't thought of a charm bracelet, but that would work! :)

Anna that is beautiful, even if I could do something like that, my patience would run out after the first cut. How do you start a design like that,...

Thanks Carole. I think I was just playing silly beggars and wanted to see how close I could get the lines. Thanks Susie. It was made out of 2...

That's beautiful Anna. How thick was the silver sheet? Susie

That's really good work Anna.

I've always used 4/0 for everything. Mostly piercing but also for cutting wire too. I only use snips for cutting solder pallions. I suppose it's what...

That is very cute.

Well I still think its a stupid way of sizing something, but glad you have explained it as at least now I know what I should be using. Thanks for...

Yes Pat the No.8/0 is the finest and the No.6 is the coarsest. During my 51 years career I have pieced most shapes and sizes and have never used a...

Just read that again slowly, am I correct in the interpretation please. If you wrote a zero in the middle of a piece of paper as:- Finest ...

Beautiful work again Kim! i would be so tempted to arrange those dangling off a charm bracelet or anklet.

I assume you are just cradling the saw handle Pat? it needs no pressure at all really, just draw the whole of the blade through up and down...

Just discovered the delights of 6/0, so smooth and clean on 0.5 sheet no tidying needed. Was like a hot knife through butter, think i got my flow on...

Just out of interest or for history, this is a wrapper from some of my oldest stock of 8/0 size saw blades. It shows how they originally showed the...

That's so cute Kim!