Deep breathe...

[Dennis]

Setting the stone in these unsupported collets can be more easily done by pinching lightlly just above ( but never below) the collar of the stone with round/round or flat/round pliers, first north and south then east and west etc. The trick is to get the stone absolutely level and you seem to have done that really well. For finishing, the setting can be polished with different grades of cup-shaped rubbers on a screw mandrel and a slow running motor.
Hope you won't mind me writng all this' Dennis.

[BeJewellery]

Thank you for the tips Dennis. I found it quite hard to set the stone as there wasn't much room around the bezel to get my pusher in due to the design.

I like the idea of using a cup shaped rubber to polish after ssetting, I would never have thought of this had you not suggested it.

[Tigerlily]

Looks fab to me xx

[Dennis]

If you have a tool covered in diamond grit, or one of those gritty metal nail files from Boots, you can run your rotary rubbers on them to improve the shape. It does not harm the tool. Welcome to the Club, Dennis.

[Fi Wilson]

Oooh, I really like that! Really different.
Fi

[Lucy]

Awsome pendant! its soooo cute.

One thing though (that I also keep getting told over and over) with round wire, the aim is to keep it looking absoultely perfect with no marks throughout the entire process of making - to avoid havig to do any clean up on the wire and therefore making it out of round. Easier said than done - but just trying to achieve that makes a big difference to the piece. I love to use the plastic jawed pliers.