[Jewelry making - Article 00435] - Re: [Orchid] Tricky Layout

[Neilthejeweler]

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    I tried a dry run with a piece of scrap sheet. Got a very nice
    layout. Eight rayed star with a hole in the center. To my chagrin
    when I dapped into the tapered hole in the block the hole in the
    setting went from 4 mm to 8!. It came out very uniform and
    symmetrical but way too large. So I'm leaning toward making a tapered
    tube, sectioning out to the size I need and then eyeball the prongs
    in after a quick 8-point reference at the top as suggested by John
    Donivan. My first boss would call me 'the frustrated machinist'. He
    might be right but I wonder what he meant by that ;- P
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