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Post by 1dave on Dec 3, 2015 7:33:24 GMT -5
I woke at 2am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I decided to share an idea for broaches, rings, etc. Make a wire oval just larger than your cab, then a slightly smaller one, attache them at the corners, Then solder on opened jump rings on the bottom oval to bend over and hold the cab in place. Add bale or ring shank, Then inset the stone from the back instead of the top as I have always done.
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Post by 1dave on Dec 3, 2015 15:40:51 GMT -5
A more robust design would be to attach the jump rings on the side wires and solder to the base wire.  |
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Post by toiv0 on Dec 3, 2015 18:56:05 GMT -5
is the plan to bend the jump rings up to hold the cabachon in? Bail for pendant, shank for a ring?
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Don
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Post by Don on Dec 3, 2015 18:59:49 GMT -5
good idea Dave. Cuts way down on materials too.
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Post by 1dave on Dec 4, 2015 1:35:26 GMT -5
is the plan to bend the jump rings up to hold the cabachon in? Bail for pendant, shank for a ring? Right on! |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 4, 2015 1:40:30 GMT -5
good idea Dave. Cuts way down on materials too. And it focuses on the stone ! I've always inserted the stones from the top and had to figure some way to bend over prongs that would hold and not be too ugly and hide so much of a nice cab. I have a couple of opals I cut 40 years ago that the sides and bottom are as magnificent as the top I want displayed in rings. This allows most of them to be seen.  |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 4, 2015 17:14:41 GMT -5
good idea Dave. Cuts way down on materials too. Don, If you happen to use this design, I'd appreciate you posting a picture of it here. My hands are too shaky to do much any more. |
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Post by Pat on Dec 4, 2015 17:40:00 GMT -5
1dave could you post a photo of a cab set this way? Thanks.
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Post by MrP on Dec 4, 2015 18:02:48 GMT -5
good idea Dave. Cuts way down on materials too. Don, If you happen to use this design, I'd appreciate you posting a picture of it here. My hands are too shaky to do much any more. You say your hands are to shaky to do much but they sure do a great job posting. You find great topics to post on and provide great material to go with the subject. Keep up the great work!.....................MrP |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 5, 2015 1:48:20 GMT -5
1dave could you post a photo of a cab set this way? Thanks. I would love to, but . . . That is why I asked Don to do it. It is a new idea to me that came in the night. I'm learning to use Clip Studio - Holding the mouse with both hands I was finally able to make the drawings above.  A correction function to smooth hand-drawn lines  “Stroke-in” and “stroke-out” to easily strengthen or weaken the beginning or end of a line.  Free resolution for beautiful lines in vector format PROEX Scaling up / down never changes the beauty of lines and you can freely change the line even after you draw it. |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 5, 2015 2:10:18 GMT -5
Don, If you happen to use this design, I'd appreciate you posting a picture of it here. My hands are too shaky to do much any more. You say your hands are to shaky to do much but they sure do a great job posting. You find great topics to post on and provide great material to go with the subject. Keep up the great work!.....................MrP Thanks for the kind words but I do get a tad wild on politics. I HATE what the progressives are doing to our country. |
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Post by 1dave on Dec 5, 2015 15:13:17 GMT -5
Pat, It would be like making this a tad small, and bending the loops underneath. 
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Post by Tom on Dec 5, 2015 18:07:01 GMT -5
Cool idea Dave
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Post by 1dave on Apr 7, 2021 6:08:21 GMT -5
Searching for when I wrote about my shaky hands and found this. so BUMP.
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