EHR2009
Brilliant_Rock
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- Apr 18, 2009
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So my fiance and I had our wedding bands handmade because we used the gold from his mother''s wedding ring to inlay into a 5mm platinum band (which apparently is a difficult task). The jeweler we used was recommended to us by my fiance''s step-mother, who has worked with him on many occassions in the past (she is a jewelry designer). We received the rings in the mail, and his ring is obviously uneven, which is made more obvious by the fact that there is a strip of gold running through the middle of it, so there are not equal amounts of platinum on either side. I took it in to a jewelry store to have it measured, and it turns out that it is 4.5mm wide on part of the ring, and the rest is 5mm. To me, this seems like a pretty big difference.
I emailed the jeweler and politely expressed my concern, and he frankly told me that handmade rings will not be perfect, and that they worked very hard to get the gold in the middle, and nothing could be done at this point. The gold strip (which apparently is the difficult part) looks fine, but the actually ring itself (made of platinum is obviously uneven!
Does anyone have knowledge about how difficult something like this would be to fix? Is it possible to just add more platinum to one side to even it out? I would have assumed that he would have immediately offered to fix it with sincere apologies, but instead he said that nothing could be done at this point.
We haven''t paid for the ring yet, but it is not so simple that we could just send it back and say "No, thank you" because my fiance''s mother''s gold is in the ring. I am planning on calling him to express that I am not happy with it, but if he refuses to fix it, I just don''t feel comfortable spending a rather large chunck of change on something that doesn''t look right to me. I understand that it is handmade, which comes with its imperfections, but this seems like a rather large and obvious imperfection!
I''ve attached a photo, but it is difficult to tell from the picture.
Do you guys think that I should just live with it and let it go, or should I stick to my guns?
I emailed the jeweler and politely expressed my concern, and he frankly told me that handmade rings will not be perfect, and that they worked very hard to get the gold in the middle, and nothing could be done at this point. The gold strip (which apparently is the difficult part) looks fine, but the actually ring itself (made of platinum is obviously uneven!
Does anyone have knowledge about how difficult something like this would be to fix? Is it possible to just add more platinum to one side to even it out? I would have assumed that he would have immediately offered to fix it with sincere apologies, but instead he said that nothing could be done at this point.
We haven''t paid for the ring yet, but it is not so simple that we could just send it back and say "No, thank you" because my fiance''s mother''s gold is in the ring. I am planning on calling him to express that I am not happy with it, but if he refuses to fix it, I just don''t feel comfortable spending a rather large chunck of change on something that doesn''t look right to me. I understand that it is handmade, which comes with its imperfections, but this seems like a rather large and obvious imperfection!
I''ve attached a photo, but it is difficult to tell from the picture.
Do you guys think that I should just live with it and let it go, or should I stick to my guns?
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