How Do You Make A Metal Clay Bezel Setting (Using The Syringe Or Coil Method)?
You love metal clay and you want to add glass to your designs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to bezel set pate de verre, fused and dichroic glass pieces into your metal clay jewelry using the syringe or coil method. Grease your hands and work surface. There are a number of products on the market that can be used to prevent metal clay from sticking to your hands and work area. Products designed especially for metal clay are: CoolSlip, SlikBalm and Claymate Hand Cream. Other commonly available products include: olive oil, Badger Balm, Burt’s Bees Hand Salve Roll out a back plate, add texture and cut into desired shape. Smooth metal clay edges with paint brush and water, as needed. Here we used a heart shaped cutter. Place your glass component on the backplate. Continuing our Heart theme, here we used a heart shaped glass component. Create a coil. Wrap the coil around the glass. Note that you can use a syringe rather than creating a coil, but you will need to have multiple coils to
