How to Make a Jewelry Bezel for Resin Without Soldering

How to Make a Jewelry Bezel for Resin Without Soldering<br /><br />How to Make a Bezel without SolderingBezels are fun and creatively liberating because they are blank slates for your designs. You can fill an empty bezel with virtually anything photos, scrapbook pieces, printouts, charms, beads, shells, buttons, pressed flowers, coins, stamps, you name it!<br /><br />The problem is, it seems like commercially available bezels are either the wrong dimensions too shallow, or cost way too much. Luckily, it is fairly easy to make your own bezel. You can add a bail to turn it into a pendant or adhere it to a different setting. You can even use it to make your own resin pendant!<br /><br />Vintaj altered metal canvasses and K metal sheets are the highest quality, readily available metal sheets youll find at craft and hobby stores. In my experience, other, cheaper metal blanks are usually impure, which tends to make them overly soft and more difficult to work with.<br /><br />Materials Needed for a DIY BezelMetal. A small sheet of 22 gauge brass or copper works well.<br /><br />Metal shears. Make sure they are metal shears, not metal snips. Tin snips, also known as aviation snips, cut at an angle and leave a jagged edge.<br /><br />Pliers. Flat jaw, nylon pliers are helpful because they do not mar the metals surface, but any pliers will do.<br /><br />Metal file, sanding block, or sandpaper. A metal sanding block/buffer works best.<br /><br />Optional small metal anvil or draping block, jewelry/ball pein hammer, tape.<br /><br />Making the BezelThe instructions below make a 1 x 1 square bezel that is approximately 1/4 deep, but you can easily modify the dimensions to suit your own needs!<br /><br />1. Mark off a 1.5 square on your metal sheet. If it is new and has straight edges, you can use the precut sides to form half the outer squares edges, saving yourself a lot of work! Permanent marker ink is easily removed from metal with rubbing alcohol, so do not worry about the lines detracting from the finished bezel.