{"id":10002,"date":"2022-06-02T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/?p=10002"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:55:22","slug":"faux-bone-as-a-jewelry-stone-setting-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/faux-bone-as-a-jewelry-stone-setting-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux Bone as a Jewelry Stone Setting Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Everyone! Today&#8217;s quick idea is for Jewelry making rather than paper crafting. Something different for a change!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a quick explanation of how I made my own Stone Setting tool for jewelry using Faux Bone. If you&#8217;ve never heard of this, it is a product developed by Robert Dancik and usually used as a focal piece. He also uses it for pushing shapes into metal for those of us without a hydraulic press. But I came up with a different way of using it- as a custom tool to set stones!<\/p>\n<p>I have a myriad of stone setting tools. The latest I just purchased are beautiful hand made ones by Chris at Lion Forge. I&#8217;m sure in the right hands they are miraculous \ud83d\ude09 . My hands still are terrible however at setting even with these gorgeous tools, however I hope to one day graduate to using them! I have watched and taken classes and still I have trouble getting a smooth, tight trap of the stone underneath without slipping and marring the metal or stone itself.<\/p>\n<p>So I was looking around the studio one day trying to see if I had anything that was hard yet soft\/non-marring that might work. I had already tried using brass rods that I smoothed and rounded over, and that was ok but still not perfect. And I was doing something with my new bench too that is made from a hard plastic, and then I remembered Faux Bone! I grabbed some and sawed a piece into a shape that I thought would work and that would fit in my hand. A jewelry saw was fine to cut the shape, and I used a file and my jool tool to finish the smoothing process. There is also a special edger for Faux Bone that gets rid of the sharp edge along the sides. I made a few different sizes and shapes and have used them successfully to set some bezels with stones and fused glass pendants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So if you have any Faux Bone laying around and you are looking for a tool that won&#8217;t mar your metal. give it a try! If not you can find Faux Bone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fauxbone.com\/pages\/about-robert-dancik\">Robert&#8217;s site<\/a> or at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cooltools.us\/Faux-Bone-Sheet-p\/fau-100-p.htm\">CoolTools.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-600x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10004\" src=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"Faux Bone as Jewelry Stone Setting Tool\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Faux-Bone-as-Jewelry-Stone-Setting-Tool-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faux Bone as Jewelry Stone Setting Tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is the video where I show my tools. Sorry for the shakiness- I was hand holding my camera.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_85405\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhAMgKBLX-g?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! Today&#8217;s quick idea is for Jewelry making rather than paper crafting. Something different for a change! 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