Thanks Wendy

Thanks, I'm trying to improve my videos

Glad it was helpful!

Many thanks, I do plan to make a lot more jewellery making videos including silver clay

Karen I would have punched a star in the heart exactly where I wanted the stone, then roll clay into a snake, wrap around the stone, wet the join seam. Let heart and stone dry, take stone wet bottom of clay and around the punched area, add stone over the punched area, I put a hole so light can come through the stone, let that dry then fire as usual. You can also cut out bezels with a cricket or silhouette. Don't need to go buy wire or solder anything! Makes things easy .

It doesn't look to me like he soldered the bezel wire closed. It probably isn't necessary to solder it closed since you're going to cover the outside with the silver paste.

You should be OK with Garnet, I've cast lots in place with molten silver with no ill effect. Obviously there is always a risk though with natural stone that there could be some sort of inclusion or weakness that breaks with the heat so take precautions (safety glasses etc. )

@@SteveErhardt Thank you so much for your advice! Appreciate it x

Thank you, very useful information