Bail Perfect Centering Tool – Short version

This is a bale centering tool. It was designed to help us make sure that the center line of the stone is lined up with a bale so that it hangs symmetrically and looks correct. In the kit are a bale centering tool itself, a pen for marking, extra rubber bands, a practice tool, and then a set of instructions. The tool works like this. You place two fingers on these two lips here, place your thumb back here, two fingers here, flip it over, drop the bezel that you want to mark in against the fixed jaw, which is at this end. Take the sliding jaw, which is down here, and play with it back and forth. It will center the piece in line. You flip it over, apply a slight pressure, then you can mark the center line. And when you get done with that, you should have on the center of that piece. Keep in mind that if your back plate is not always lined, is not always the same size, or your bezel isn't perfectly uniform, that you'll still end up with the center. It's just that it might look unusual on the back. You can also use this tool. Remember, you'll set it against, underneath the fixed jaw. Slap it around a few times, flip it over, make your marks. There's room for five of them there. Then when you're making your ring, you can flip that around. Now you have lines the other direction, orientation lines for when you're deciding where to put your, your ring shank. That way it won't be twisted and too far off either side. I got interrupted when I was working on this video, and I picked up that bezel and, and with the cross marks on it. So I went ahead and made it into a ring. And so that ring came out looking like this, after aligning on those. Looks really nice. It fit just perfectly on the center. So I went ahead and made another one up really quick. And when it was marked up, it didn't look like it was marked on the dead center. But when you turn it over and you look at it here, you can see that the bail is lined up with the center of the stone. And that was the purpose of the tool.

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