[Jewelry making - Article 00055] - Re: [Orchid] Using bezel blocks

[John Donivan]

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>     They would be way down on my list of tools to acquire as I would
>     use them very infrequently 

    This topic has been around, I guess. I could see that for someone who
    is making a production line that has some repetitious part, bezel or
    not, it could be the ideal tool. And I could see, as many have said,
    that if one naively bought one that now sits on a shelf, that it
    could come in real handy at times. But I just looked at a major
    supplier, and to get a range of sizes and shapes could easily cost
    you $1000, and then add a range of angles and it could be $2000 and
    more. Just to pop out simple shapes. Anyway, I'm sure there are those
    who use them constantly and swear by them. The point being that, like
    Andy, I have an assortment of steel that I use for shaping, and I
    also do a lot with the plain old dapping block. You can make a small
    ring and turn it into an angled underbezel real easy, and you can
    also put that into a pair of pliers and turn it into an oval real
    easy. No, it won't have straight, perfectly angled sides, and the
    oval shape will have different angles as it goes around, but I don't
    think that always matters to begin with, or it is easily fixed by
    filing, if needed. Very verstile tool, the dapping block. 

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