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Still using my flat face pushing tool here, my burnishing tool, I'm going to start working
my way gently around the bezel and you want to make sure that you do this gently so that
you don't wrinkle the edges of the bezel. You are going to have to keep doing this all
the way around the ring or earring or pendant or whatever it is you are making for a while.
Because when you push it down in one place the places next to it are going to have a
tendency to want to rebound a little bit so we'll keep going around and around and around
until the stone starts to get really tight in here. Next after we are done with this
stage we'll move to a different burnishing tool which has a rounded edge like this one
and actually really start sweeping this around the edge and eventually this will start to
get nice and tight and you can also do this without a tool that spins like this just by
sweeping your hand around it like this but a spinning tool makes it a lot easier.