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The findings used are 14-karat yellow gold round bezels, jump rings, a pre-made pendant bail. |
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Jump rings will join the bezels. First, the jump ring is cut using Xuron flush cutters. One third of the ring was removed. |
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The ends are trued by sanding and then slightly rounding each individual end. |
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A line is scribed midway around each bezel. At the top and bottom portions of the first bezel, the partial jump rings are tacked over the scribed guideline. |
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For the tack-welding, the tweezers and pliers leads were used with the ABI Tack II welder set on the high energy setting at 35 volts. |
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After tacking the partial jump rings, they were soldered using 14-karat easy-flowing solder. |
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The bezels have been joined with jump rings. The bail was installed and all joints were pulse-arced using ABI's pulse-arc-welder set on the medium energy setting at 35 volts using the #2 tip. |
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The pendant was pre-finished using a magnetic finisher for 20 minutes, then polished and the gemstones were set. |
