Bur for carving seat for thin cabochon

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Since I’ve been playing with flush setting small stones, I got to think about doing something sort of similar with some quite small and thin rosecut cabs I have. For this I think I would need a bur with a flat end, maybe like the one in the link? Drilling holes for faceted stones is pretty straightforward but something wider and shallower, I’m not sure. I don’t know if anyone even does this. Any advice? Thank you.

Flat head inverted cone sintered carving bur (inlandcraft.com)

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Try taking an old round burr and grinding it down to the widest diameter and see if that will do what you want to do. I use these to clean up extra solder on the inside of a bezel where it meets the back plate. Others may have better ideas…Rob

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