Les Triplettes de Spinelville

[pregcurious]

There is no brown anywhere. the center stone is quite nearly pure red. Occasionally a strongly lit facet will flash a light red or dark pink. The side stones from two years ago are quite red with a weak orangy modifier that the camera picks up far more than the eye in real life.

I can vouch for red spinels looking far more orange in pictures. I've used a Nikon, Canon, and iPhone, and it happens with all 3. Even when creating a video of my red spinel, I can see in real time that my iPhone adds an orange modifier. That's why in my avatar my hand looks so pink...it's only with certain outdoor light, which makes my hand look very pink on my iPhone, that my red spinel actually appears red on my iPhone!

Indoors, my spinel will have a very weak orange modifier. Otherwise, it is red. Really. It is incredibly difficult to capture the real color.

I here you. The pictures of my burmese spinel in my posts kept coming out more pinkish than you see in real life, and not the real red I see in person .

I think my post might have been confusing because it's not written well. The pink modifier in my avatar is the pink that I see during a certain time of day, or in fluorescent lights at my work office. Overall, the stone can often look like this in those conditions, or neutral red, which I have not captured in a nicely focused and staged picture. The color comes out best when the stone is blurry. It can also shift to a weak orange modifier inside in my house, but never enough to be mistaken for anything but red. In pictures, I can get it to look like VLs pics.

I wish I knew how to adjust the white balance on my iPhone as it's now the only camera I use.

What camera do you use that makes your stone look pink? That is preferable to orange

 

[caf]

Love this - cannot believe how gorgeous this is.

 

[chrono]

This is so nice I can't believe PSers havent been having this made.

Shhhh....I'm trying to work out a kite style design for my square cushion tsavorite with hot pink side stones.

 

[pregcurious]

Chrono, you have to spill it now.

Do kite set stones/halos get damaged more easily?

 

[VapidLapid]

Well there was this too

 

[minousbijoux]

I love the kite shapes too, VL. Good job finding them. I think apart from the pleasing connection between the north/south points of the stone and the rest of the setting, I also really like it for the judicious use of diamonds and the tremendously strong saturation of each center stone.

 

[tyty333]

Such pretty colors!

I'm picturing a 3 stone ring with a black diamond halo
around the center stone maybe in a higher carat yellow
gold! That's what I'd do with those beauties!

 

[VapidLapid]

tyty it is funny you would say that; in the last year I have acquired about 700 black spinel between 2.0 mm and 3.0mm since they were available, and I thought it best to get them while I could, than hunt frustratingly later.

Today I perused the Met's online gold rings. Again I will post many quasi inspiring, if not in form than in spirit, though some are clearly mainly carved and that Is where my thinking at least is heading. ALso I will post some pics of things that I was just captivated or enamored with, I never mind a little threadjack; the nooks and crannies of our thoughts are rich feeding grounds.

 

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[Lisa Loves Shiny]

Thanks for the kind words and inspirations everyone!! This is going to be a long adventure I think since I can't even say if it is to be a men's or woman's ring. I will consider and work up plans for either as they come to me until I have one I just have to work on. Not all ring designs are gender specific so I have a lot of freedom.

SParkliesLuver those rings are all very pretty. The skills that are necessary to do that kind of work are not mine.

PregCurious, Thank you so much for getting me, it is not the first time I've said that to you but I mean it. The ring you posted looks huge to me, like a Bishop's ring.

LisaRN that is a very beautiful ring. Somewhat Van Craenysty in the metal work. I may not be able to produce refined ornament like that, but it is the spirit of carving I may go after, at least in form.

I looked at the Victoria and Albert museum website and searched for gold rings and looked at everything it gave. I figured that since I am a brute at best that I should only look at things that were made without modern tools. I will post some of them here, even some that may seem less relevant to this quest, because they were any combination of interesting, odd, clever, innovative, beautiful or appealed to me for some other reason. I will check the rings in the collection at the Met tomorrow too.

I thought I was the only one who haunted the Victoria and Albert Museum website for pictures of spinel rings. Have you seen the Townshend spinel ring? I know it is not relevant to the gorgeous ring you are going to create but here is a pic- just to lust over. This is the setting I picture for my new 3.6 carat spinel.

 

[caf]

Well there was this too

Gorgeous too.

 

[Siameseroo]

I like the metal work on this design.


This is so nice I can't believe PSers havent been having this made.

These, and the pearl ring posted by LisaRN are my favourite! Looking forward to seeing how you set your spinels! Will you be making the ring yourself?

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

This thread made my day, thank you!

cheers--Sharon