When this happened to me I tried to smooth them out as best I could by gently tweaking with half rounded pliers and then inserting the stone (with dental tape around to remove later) finally gently sanding with an assortment of rubber burrs ranging from med to extra fine - but it's just trial & error really you have to use your own best judgement. Of course when the stone goes in proper any small marks should burnish out. At least that is what I have found.
(Just noticed you are a senior member - hope I am not teaching you to suck eggs!)
Theresa
Thanks Theresa, I'm probably senior as I signed up a while back, but I'm just a newbie when it comes to working with metal
Theresa that bracelet is gorgeous!
Can I ask how you made the hinges?
Hi Theresa,
I know this is an old post, but when I set stones with corners, even sharper than yours, I cut the bezel down so that the amount to push over is the same around the corners as it is on the rest of the stone. I don't cut V's as such, I cut down a gentle curve down to the lowest point at the cormers and that seems to work for me, no excess metal that puckers and disturbes the rest of the setting. This is something you need to do anyway with a lot of stones, e.g. I set a lot of turquoise cabs, and other stones, that are far from even in thickness around, and so I use a pencil and draw a line on the inside of the bezel with the stone in place, then cut down to that line all around, whihc means I cut more in some places than others, this makes sure you have the same amount of metal to be pushed over all around. Seems to work for me and in my mind looks good too. It's different of course with cut stones with sharp square corners, they require different techniques that I can't say I am that familiar with.
Hope that helps, and sorry if I have just told you something you already knew!
Carin
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