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Bezel help
I have been given a nice 12 mm diameter brilliant cut garnet, and I would like to tube set it on a silver ring, in the past I have set smaller stones with an inner tube and an outer tube, with the seat on the inner tube, but this is off the scale of my burrs, any ideas how I can get a seating on the inner tube,
Frank
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Have a look at bezel strip
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Make the inner tube from a strip of sheet. Hold the strip in a vice and with a flat file, file the angled seat on the edge of the strip before forming it into a tube
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I made a similar ring for my daughter, I shaped the bezel then soldered a washer in the tube to provide the seat for the stone. These photos show my method of creating a seat.
This was the silver ring I made my daughter, possibly similar to the one you are making.
Good luck
James
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That was very interesting james i haven't set a stone yet so great to see how you do it.
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I like using bits of tube fitted inside one another as a quick solution. I rarely bother with a taper for the inner one, but if I do want one, and the tube is too large for burrs, I just use a fresh scalpel blade at an appropriate angle. Silver is more than soft enough for this to work very easily. I often do the same thing rather than filing for an outer bezel on a rubover setting as I seem to run less risk of accidentally filing something I hadn't intended to with this method. I find Rashbel useful for short lengths of perfectly matched tube as they have 0.5mm wall tube in 1mm increment sizes.
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