Decided to modify my Million dollar belt replica from the WWW shop to fill in the small unstoned portions of the dollar signs to make it appear fuller and rounder like the real belt.
I think it looks great, fun idea. Like you say sometimes you can tell the stones aren't the same since the shine is different. But most times you can't tell. Are you going to restone it yourself? You would already know exactly what sizes and how many you'd need Great work!
