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Frankie Yourgulez-Buhrer → Ap6.10.Cross&TriagleSolderedBezels

Apr 25th, 2010
by pat.

These stones have bezels formed and soldered and ready to be created into something beautiful!

These stones have bezels formed and soldered and ready to be created into something beautiful!

Started in the Spring of 2009, the owl & woman have been challenging pieces thus far. The purple stone is Ametheyst and the brown is Amber. I’m kind of stumped for a design on the woman pendent, u have any ideas? Project in the middle does not know what it wants to be as of yet, it features file work around the bezel part with a rare piece of green Turq. The bottom project will be a child’s bracelet with an opal stone.
This is what a “prepped” bracelet frame looks like after construction, it is now ready to have a stamping design or what ever creation is to be soldered onto it. The turtle bracelet on the left corner; may have to be tossed into the “silver scrap bucket” for when it was very hot it fell into the pickle solution and crystallized the metal around the bezel. I’ve tried to take out the stone to no avail – I used, “hot stuff glue” (good stuff), and don’t want to damage the turq. stone. Have any ideas to salvage? Turtles are one of my most consuming projects, lots of detailed work involved making all the pieces and lots of tedious file work!

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