Originally Posted by
Dennis
If you once return to the idea of making your own rub over collet, then give up bought bezel strip and cut your own from 0.4mm fine silver sheet. you will find straight away that it is much easier to use.
Going on with this idea, for a square stone you can make a piece of right angle metal in one go, and cut it up to make two useful lengths. Then join the L-shaped pieces to make a square for your stone. The easy way is to fit a shorter L inside a longer one.
I personally prefer to check each right angle on a piece of 1.0mm graph paper as I go along and once soldered correct any small error on a square mini triblet (mandrel). Then as Kwant suggests you can make a wire bearer, or make a second square to fit inside, but not as tall.
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