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    That's beautiful Josef.

    Mine will just be a very plain pendant and apart from the stone being beautiful, it won't be anything special at all.

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    Im sure it will be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by caroleallen View Post
    Problem is that now I know he paid £250 for it!
    That's a hefty price for a 5mm opal, even if he bought it retail. I take it that it is not a doublet, or he's been had.

    Setting it in resin might well change its optical properties for the worse. Raised on a wire bearer, it could still have a flat back. Dennis.
    Last edited by Dennis; 23-01-2015 at 10:08 PM.

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    It's black on the back Dennis, so I don't think it will make any difference to the optical properties. Does that make it a doublet?

    I think I'd still worry about it if I made a wire bearer.

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    I have one that is white on the back, I thought it was a fake.

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    Carole, A while back I set a similar non flat backed shaped stones in a flat backed bezel settings, for modelling I sometimes use Super Sculpey modeling wax. I made the setting to suit the stone and then rolled a piece of Super Skulpey into a wire shape length, squeezed it round the interior bezel area, then pushed the stone in so that it shaped the wax and was was sitting square, removed the stone and then heated the whole thing gently which hardens the Super Skulpey and gave me a secure bed to sit the stones on while rubbing over the bezels. If you haven't tried it yet I am sure you would find many uses for Skulpey; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Super-Sculpe...=super+sculpey

    James

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    that is interesting to read James,

    do you not find the that Sculpey fractures over time?

    Lovely ring Josef - in awe and feel so unskilled!

    Carole, do you remember that Tony would chamfer some stones with some of these http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/E...OND_FILES.html ?
    Last edited by Wallace; 24-01-2015 at 06:58 PM. Reason: forgot to add a word!

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    Thank you James. I will have a look at that.

    My goodness Wallace, you've got a good memory! I don't remember him saying that but I probably wasn't concentrating.

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    Super Sculpey looks a lot like Milliput and I have that already.

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    Super Sculpey is a PVC-based hardening "clay", as opposed to an epoxy putty.

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