Fixed Byzantine Clasp

I'm pretty sure I posted about this previously. I was polishing one of the Byzantine clasps, and the bail broke off. I attempted to fix it, but melted the filigree. I had used easy solder, I'm pretty sure, and the joints just fell apart. It didn't help that I was attempting to add a chonky bail to match the original better. So that failed piece and the other half (which had also lost a granule), sat on my workbench for a few months. Well, I finally had the time to make a new mate. (And fix that granule.)

I did a few things differently on this one, and I like the outcome. First, I soldered the outer ring. 

Not so different, so far. But next, I attached the filigree to itself first. 

This made attaching it to the ring SO MUCH EASIER. 

At some point, I'm going to get these stupid granules to go exactly where I want them to. This wasn't it. They should touch both the bail and the beaded wire. Oh, well. Close enough. They're firmly attached, at least. (Photo is pre-firing, you can see the solder chunks).

Attaching the chonky bail is always a challenge. It took several tries, and I eventually caved and used paste solder. That worked much better. 

You can see above how the granules are attached to the bail and not the beaded wire. So annoying. But I'm not going to redo it.