[Jewelry making - Article 01444] - Re: [Orchid] Braided Wire Bezels

[Loren S. Damewood]

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Annabel,

    While I usually do solder the ends together when I tie a bezel for a
    stone, there are times when I don't have to. The important thing to
    keep in mind is that the bezel has to maintain its integrity around
    the stone, so merely bringing a strip of braid around its perimeter
    is not going to provide much security. 

    I make the kinds of bezels you refer to above, from as small as 6mm
    up to any size desired, but it isn't a trivial thing to do. The knot
    that I use is the Turk's Head, which you can learn to do very easily
    from a number of books (I recommend the "Ashley Book of Knots", but
    there are many) and it's just a matter of producing it in wire at the
    size desired. 

    I teach people to make them as finger rings, but it's just as easy
    to measure the circumference of a stone as it is to measure a finger.
    My website has enough information on it that at least a few people
    have learned to do them on their own, without taking my workshop,
    just from looking at it. 

Loren
http://www.golden-knots.com
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