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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com
and today I'm going to show you how to make the czarina bracelet
which is this place right and it features
these with a pretty vintage style glass
cabochons. I have a few different colors of have them. I'm using the 18mm
size
and then I'm also using this really
beautiful Nunn design bezel bracelet setting. It's also 18 millimeters
Some of them are going to fit like a charm
and some of them are going to be a little snug. So what I'm gonna show you is
how to
make them fit even when they didn't want to. So you're going to need some
E6000 glue and a pair of chain nose pliers
the really important thing here is that if you're going
to a specific color pattern like I have black, blue, red, black, blue,
if you wanna do it random or do
one in the Center the same two here, the same two here. Figure out whatever pattern
you wanna do
and you're gonna wanna make sure that you're placing the specific cabochon
in place that you're going to use in that place
in that spot because some of them are
not quite exactly uniform and you want to make sure that your
making it fit for where it's going to go
what you do is put it in and see
if it happens to fit on its own. This one is just a little bit snug
What I'm going to do is very gently but firmly
grasp the edge and pull out
you don't want to yank on it so hard that you break the welding and
lose your bezel but you are just going to bend it very slightly
just work your way around the whole thing
just get it to be a little bit tilted out
and
now it fits. So once it fits see if you can get it out again
so if it fits just go on to the next one and
than bend out. If you're going to use
these same colors I noticed that the blue ones are a little bigger
than the other colors and so you need
a little bit more work to get them to fit
and if you get it bent a little bit too you can just bend it back
and the red ones are also I noticed a little bit smaller so I'm just gonna
see, yeah
this fit's very pretty easily
you wanna make sure that you get all of them adjusted
before you start gluing because otherwise you'll have to wait for all of
the glue to dry before you can move on to the next one so it doesn't fall out
when you pick
them up
all you need to do is glue them in and one thing I will say is because it's a
snugger fit
it's not necessarily going to sit totally flush on the bottom
so why you don't need to fill the bezel with glue
I would put a pretty decent amount of glue on the bottom of the bezel
and just so that in case it's not flush with the bottom it still going to make
contact with the glue
and just be care that you push it in a bunch of glue squishes out that you
wipe
it off before it starts to dry. All you do
is glue in your cabochon and then you're gonna want to
of course let them dry all the way before you wear it
and that's all there is to it. It's pretty simple once you get them to fit in there and
it's a very striking
project.
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