Making Your Own Decorative Bezel

Melted Edge

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30-gauge sterling plate

Acetylene & Oxygen torch with a small tip

 

Take your sterling plate and put it in your vice. Burn it in an up and down direction, so you have hills and valleys. Cut off the height you want the bezel. Sand one side flat so it will fit flat against the stone. Then file the bottom, just to make sure it will sit fat when soldering it down to the plate.

 

Reference:

Jay Bown

 

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Dennis Chapman