Culver City Rock & Mineral Club

Workshop – Bezel Set a Stone 10/26/25 9am-12pm at CCRMC Lapidary Shop

Learn to fit, solder, attach a bezel to a backplate, and then solder it onto a ring you make. Sounds easy? Yes, when you have made a lot of them, but until then, you will learn to:

  • Decide what bezel wire to use.
  • Measure the correct length for the stone. Cut and file the wire. Close the wire, file as needed
  • Solder the wire. Refit the stone.
  • Make the bezel flush with the backplate. Use sandpaper to make needed adjustments
  • Solder bezel to backplate.
  • Cut or saw excess silver from the backplate. File to finish the bezel
  • Make a finger ring (measure wire, cut, file, solder)
  • Solder bezel to ring, polish ring with bezel, insert stone. Fasten the stone in the bezel, using a bezel rocker and burnisher.

By the end of the session, you will have acquired a new skill set that you can apply in your future silversmithing.

The workshop is only open to members who have completed the Beginning Silversmithing workshop.

The workshop is limited to 4 members, and is only open to members who have completed the Beginning Silversmithing workshop.

Workshop size is limited, so we recommend early registration.