A Colored Stone Chaser Set with Spinel, Sapphire, Bixbite

[voce]

This project started with me buying these bixbites and buying this pair of red Burmese spinels from Cecile Raley Designs in February 2019.

I just wanted the bixbites for the rarity, since I had never seen bixbites in person, especially as these came untreated, which is pretty rare.

Then, the next day, I saw this beautiful spinel pair and impulsively just needed to have them. (Tagging @elle_71125 because she had her eye on the spinels and wanted to know how I set them.)

I had the initial idea of wanting the spinels to be "ears" in a curved ring that would go around a solitaire. However, I did not like the idea of a monocolor ring. So, I bought some lavender sapphires to alternate with the red gems. These lavender sapphires all came from Madagascar.

However, I did not have the solitaires yet; I bought a silver spinel from Cecile Raley Designs and a blue zircon from Litnon later that year and had them set by Ivy and Rose.


After wearing these solitaires for a couple months, I started favoring my other custom projects. I always wanted more color than I could get from the single gem. So I thought I could get my chaser set made to go around these solitaires. However, 2019 was a busy year, and I had a lot of higher priority projects, so the chaser set was postponed for this year.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

This project started with me buying these bixbites and buying this pair of red Burmese spinels from Cecile Raley Designs in February 2019.

I just wanted the bixbites for the rarity, since I had never seen bixbites in person, especially as these came untreated, which is pretty rare.

Then, the next day, I saw this beautiful spinel pair and impulsively just needed to have them. (Tagging @elle_71125 because she had her eye on the spinels and wanted to know how I set them.)

I had the initial idea of wanting the spinels to be "ears" in a curved ring that would go around a solitaire. However, I did not like the idea of a monocolor ring. So, I bought some lavender sapphires to alternate with the red gems. These lavender sapphires all came from Madagascar.

However, I did not have the solitaires yet; I bought a silver spinel from Cecile Raley Designs and a blue zircon from Litnon later that year and had them set by Ivy and Rose.


After wearing these solitaires for a couple months, I started favoring my other custom projects. I always wanted more color than I could get from the single gem. So I thought I could get my chaser set made to go around these solitaires. However, 2019 was a busy year, and I had a lot of higher priority projects, so the chaser set was postponed for this year.

I have learnt so much just from your opening post !
Very much looking to see what a chaser necklase is
But i can just tell i will love it !

 

[voce]

The project was set to begin in March 2020 with Enhoerning, but due to COVID-19 in NYC, the wax carver did not start working on it until July. I got this sneak peak August 14.

Inken sent me these pictures of the finished rings August 26.

These are pictures I took.




I asked Inken to make the curve fit around a 9x7 E-W oval, so I have more flexibility in what cuts of the solitaires I can wear the rings with.

Now I'm craving a larger solitaire to wear with my chaser set.

P.S. I consider Inken's pictures to be more representative of the color as I see them in real life, than my cell phone camera pictures.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

The project was set to begin in March 2020 with Enhoerning, but due to COVID-19 in NYC, the wax carver did not start working on it until July. I got this sneak peak August 14.

Inken sent me these pictures of the finished rings August 26.

These are pictures I took.




I asked Inken to make the curve fit around a 9x7 E-W oval, so I have more flexibility in what cuts of the solitaires I can wear the rings with.

Now I'm craving a larger solitaire to wear with my chaser set.

Wow ! Lovelly !
Oddly i was right this moment thinking about enhancer rings
I have never thought of a coloured stone enhancer
And i must say now you have shown us yours i love it !

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@voce here i was thinking you were making a necklase
Is chancer another word for enhancer ?

 

[voce]

Thanks @Daisys and Diamonds I just thought that the red spinels were so special I'd want to wear them with multiple rings rather than wear them in only one ring.

Now maybe I'll be thinking about getting a colorless marquis diamond to wear in the center with this chaser set! That or a sizeable paraiba. But I'm kind of thinking the blue is too bright, and having 3 colors could be kind of clashy...

 

[voce]

@voce here i was thinking you were making a necklase
Is chancer another word for enhancer ?

I've been saying chaser because Inken used the word chaser. I assume so. Yes, all the other enhancer rings I've seen before were colorless diamonds. But I just loved these gems and thought they'd make for a killer curved band, both the bixbites and red spinels.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Thanks @Daisys and Diamonds I just thought that the red spinels were so special I'd want to wear them with multiple rings rather than wear them in only one ring.

Now maybe I'll be thinking about getting a colorless marquis diamond to wear in the center with this chaser set! That or a sizeable paraiba. But I'm kind of thinking the blue is too bright, and having 3 colors could be kind of clashy...

I never thought about enhancers like that before ...but i will now !
Eventually a want a pair as i have a couple of gallaries im not keen on but othewise i love the rings

The blue is so spectacular, its like new years eve with the chasers this is a good thing - for when you want to wear just pure happiness and joy on your finger !

 

[voce]

I never thought about enhancers like that before ...but i will now !
Eventually a want a pair as i have a couple of gallaries im not keen on but othewise i love the rings

The blue is so spectacular, its like new years eve with the chasers this is a good thing - for when you want to wear just pure happiness and joy on your finger !

A couple of gallaries? Like, you want to hide the galleries on some of your rings?

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

A couple of gallaries? Like, you want to hide the galleries on some of your rings?

Yes
I never even knew about a gallary when i brought them but now its my most important thing to look at because its what im going to be looking at all day when i have them on
(Not my inherited rings but my mall rings ...sigh)

 

[elle_71125]

The project was set to begin in March 2020 with Enhoerning, but due to COVID-19 in NYC, the wax carver did not start working on it until July. I got this sneak peak August 14.

Inken sent me these pictures of the finished rings August 26.

These are pictures I took.




I asked Inken to make the curve fit around a 9x7 E-W oval, so I have more flexibility in what cuts of the solitaires I can wear the rings with.

Now I'm craving a larger solitaire to wear with my chaser set.

P.S. I consider Inken's pictures to be more representative of the color as I see them in real life, than my cell phone camera pictures.

Oh my gosh, I love these! I love the way you alternated the colors between the two bands.

 

[voce]

Oh my gosh, I love these! I love the way you alternated the colors between the two bands.

Yay, I'm glad you love these. I'm always a little anxious when setting something I "stole" from under the nose of another PSer, in case the gems could have been used to greater effect in another PSer's project.

Someday after I've saved up the funds, I think this chaser set justifies me buying yet another paraiba of about 9x7 in size (bigger than anything I currently have) to wear with these chaser rings

 

[2Neesers]

These are so gorgeous ! I love this idea and it turned out amazing!!

 

[elle_71125]

Yay, I'm glad you love these. I'm always a little anxious when setting something I "stole" from under the nose of another PSer, in case the gems could have been used to greater effect in another PSer's project.

Someday after I've saved up the funds, I think this chaser set justifies me buying yet another paraiba of about 9x7 in size (bigger than anything I currently have) to wear with these chaser rings

I‘m glad you got them (I never saw them as “stolen”). They were used exactly as they should have been...in your gorgeous new ring. And hells yes to a paraiba center. That would be killer!

 

[motownmama]

COOL

 

[leslie1956]

Excellent idea, voce, what a fun way to dress up solitaires!