Shaping your 'V' claws (post setting) => 12 photos

 In this essay, I'll be explaining the 'filing as well as the important trimming' of these claws in other essays to follow. In this essay, I'm enhancing & perpetuating their new shape.

 Here you can easily see the 'before & after' stone setting.

 

 With an estimated 1/3 depth from the claw tip, kindly use a round bur to drill into the claw. The size of this bur is easily determined by the thickness of the Girdle.

  I would gently bring together the 2 pairs of claws. The configuration will be from 3:00 => 6:00, then the 9:00 => 12:00 on the preferred clock.

 If you attempt to move the "opposing" claws, there will be much stress involved, and stone breakage will quickly occur.

 You can now see how these 4 claws have moved together with little or no effort.

 The 4 claws now need to be gently 'trimmed' with a Triangular #4 grit file. Don't lose the "V" claw shape.

 These 4 claws need to be kept in shape and not be out of alignment.

 

 Use your Pumice wheel of #180 grit with a Flat surface and keep the ring surfaces FLAT. I'd use my 'Snap-On" Emery with a "Medium grit" wheel to lower the height.

  After the 'rough' trimming, again use your triangular and trim the wide 'V' claws into a more desirable shape & size.

 Don't use your large cloth polishing wheel to smooth the metal. Get used to your pumice wheels to clean the overall ring tops instead of a file.

 This is the final finish of a four-claw ring. Instead of large claws that cover much of the stone, we now have a clean finish, agree?