This one is for a friend's birthday! Really struggling to get the brass bezels closed on the round stones
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Very cool! How long did it take to make?
Probably in the neighborhood of 4 hours total. Bezels take a while in general and especially for me, you have to get them to fit the stone just right, then solder them closed and then solder them down, then file them to be the right height for the stone. And, because I'm using brass wire that wasn't really meant to be used for bezels, it's pretty thick, so I have to thin it at the top so I can close it around the stone easier. For me in particular it usually takes me a couple tries to get each of the solder steps right, so with three of them on this one it took me a while hahaha. When you heat it up during soldering, the surface oxidizes, which you have to clean off with an acid bath before you can solder it again, so there's a bit of a waiting period, like 5-10 minutes between soldering steps that I'm not adding into the total time because work on other stuff during that
Wow, quite a lot of work! Thank you for taking the time to explain the details