I'm sure I've posted about this before, so I've got no excuse for following my own advice.

Bezel strip - it's supposed to be easy to deform to close it in on stones and hold them in place. However... This stuff - fully annealed BTW - has so much springback that it deforms, then opens back out again. Not all the way, just enough to make it a swine to keep the stone from rattling. I had to resort to hammer setting amber!!! Crimp in the setting at the cardinal points, then the 1/4s and the cardinals move out again. I'd hoped that the initial movement would work harden it enough to hold, but no such luck.

Gah. I've said before I should be using 18k solely; the time saving makes the higher cost entirely worthwhile.
But I need to use the remaining stuff up first.