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Use a rotary tool and a steel

brush to lightly clean the

fi ligree and bezel cups. Stop here if

you like the soft shine on the fi ligree.

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If you want a higher polish, use

a felt wheel charged with rouge

to polish the fi ligree and bezel cup.

Wash the earrings with soap and

warm water and rinse. Repeat the

polishing with a clean felt wheel

that is charged with white diamond.

Wash with warm soapy water, rinse,

and dry.

PEGGY HAUPT is an artist living near the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. The mountains and

nature are a constant inspiration for her work.

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12

SET THE CABOCHONS

Place the earrings back in the solder

board holes. Set the cabochons in

the bezel cups.

12

By the time you push at the

12, 6, and then 3 and 9 o’clock

positions on the cabs, you will have

most of the bezel pushed down.

Continue pressing and then use the

burnisher to polish the top edge of

the bezel.

Add the post back and the earrings

are ready to wear!

I noticed powdered solder by

amazing Russian filigree artist

Victoria Lansford on the Rio Grande

website and thought: what a great idea!

I only needed a minute amount, so I used

my file to make a bit for this project.

TIP!

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