{"id":88,"date":"2010-10-04T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewelryartsinstitute.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T00:15:17","slug":"student-of-the-week-daun-hauspurg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/2010\/10\/04\/student-of-the-week-daun-hauspurg\/","title":{"rendered":"Student of the Week-Daun Hauspurg"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/a>\u00a0Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week-Daun Hauspurg. \u00a0She just finished this gorgeous bracelet a week or so ago. We do mostly bezels for our stones at JAI and this piece is no exception.\u00a0 \u00a0I like to think of a bezel as a beautiful frame with the artwork being the stone.\u00a0 Almost every project begins with making your bezels and good technique is essential to getting your piece off to the right start.\u00a0\u00a0 The most important advice I could give any student who is making bezels is that if it doesn’t fit well or is badly fused MAKE ANOTHER ONE.\u00a0 You would not believe how hard it is to get people to start over.\u00a0 So many would rather slave over “fixing”something for an hour that will never look right rather than trash it and in 10 minutes have a much better one. \u00a0Sometimes I almost have to wrestle it out of their hands.\u00a0 I tell all my students that no angels sang when I made my first bezels, I just did it a zillion times until I got good at it.\u00a0 It’s the attachment to any one particular bezel or piece that hangs people up.\u00a0 Here’s a few tips for good bezels.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Always start by cutting the end of your bezel strip straight. \u00a0When cutting always line yourself up so that your scissors are 90 degrees from what they are cutting.\u00a0 Many people don’t line themselves up straight to start with and can never figure out why they can’t cut straight. \u00a0We fuse our bezels at JAI so it’s very important that our seam is butted together tightly with no light showing through.\u00a0 I always hold mine up to the light source at my bench to see what is really going on.\u00a0 Checking how well your bezel is together after fusing is very important. If it is only partially fused it may crack open later, for example, during setting.\u00a0 I have seen this happen and it’s a huge drag. \u00a0Here is how you never let that happen again. Take your just fused bezel and start to squeeze it. If where the seam is starts to form a sharp point like the top of an capital “A” then you need to re-fuse. \u00a0If it just forms an irregular curve then your bezel is done.\u00a0 You can roll it on a mandrell and continue.\u00a0 Here is to Daun and her beautiful piece. Well Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"