Originally Posted by
Dennis
Hi Theresa,
I have seen all sorts of packing underneath commercially set stones, but they need to be pretty hard, or they will crack
You don't say what kind of setting you have in mind, but I guess a bezel setting would be too tall and cumbersome to show off a delicate stone.
I would make a backplate to conform to the stone, cut out part of the centre to make it easier to adapt and add about six claws.
For the curvature of the backplate, I would take an imprint with Polymorph, or Coolmorph, and use and use it like a doming block to forge it into shape.
Dennis.
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