I so love this ring!! Gorgeous stone and setting. Looking forward to admire it on your handAh my ring is almost done
I am thrilled with how it looks. It still needs tweaking and polishing. There were supposed to be additional diamonds on the claws but they were concerned about damaging the aqua.
Just wanted to share. He is putting together some video footage for insta which I will share when I get it.
Coming back to add some of my own pictures of my DK zircon ring. It's really captivating! The stone has a more gray-purple tone in some lighting, other times more of the champagne-pink, The bezel setting makes the stone so sparkly, and the whole ring just shimmers. I really love it! And I'm amazed at David's beautiful work, bringing my vision to life.
A tiny 0.56ct deep cut burmese sapphire will be ready next week. Had my jeweler make a handmade setting for it and will solder it onto a palladium band that I already had. He melted a blob of slightly rosy 18k yellow, he then cut out a rough shape and carved it down to this. It will be curved inwards as much as the fat bellied stone will allow.Will sit flush on the hand. This stone was actually bought in Myanmar a few years ago and while buying it I bumped into two PSers completely by chance. It was very fun!
This is my daughter's and my project, but of course she will be the one who is going to own the piece. I bought 3 main stones: 0.63ct and 0.29ct Nasarawa teal aquas from Jeff Hapeman of Earth's Treasury and 0.14ct Brazilian alexandrite from GemsNY. They weren't cheap! I also donated 6+ grams of gold jewelry I didn't want anymore for her to sell to the jeweler. She created sketches and paid for the entire custom project. Oh, I forgot that I also donated 6 small diamonds set in a pendant she gave me as a present many years ago, she traded them for the small diamonds of better quality her jeweler is going to use for the current project. She paid for everything in full, wired $$$$ from her bank account on March 2, and on March 13 as you all know, the lockdown in California took place. Her jeweler is Jorge Gonzales, the owner of Dynasty Jewelers I believe, whose shop is located inside shopping mall in San Jose, CA, so everyone was waiting till the entire mall reopens. Yesterday, on June 22nd, she finally received the CAD from Jorge. Today she brought her colored stones to the shop (they represent her little family, parents born in March and baby girl born in June). On Saturday we will go together so I can start my own project, a ring and a pair of earrings with Russian demantoids for my older granddaughter.
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Here are my two spinels that will get set into 18K rose gold, even though the Stuller models/pictures are probably 14K rose gold.
The one on the left is a Tanzanian purple spinel that will get set into Stuller 71629 in 18K rose gold with F VS diamonds. Just a simple halo design.
The spinel on the right will get set into Stuller 71952, also 18K rose gold. The spinel will be haloed by F VS diamonds, with a couple mint garnets on the sides.
1) I have enough purple and lavender things set into white metals.
2) Apart from providing contrast, I don't think white metals do anything to enhance the color of lavender, and might wash them out. A white diamond halo can provide the contrast, and the rose gold would be a third color to complement the spinel workout washing it out.
3) I'd like to wear my lavender spinels with pink and mint green colors, which I have already set into rose gold.
Add to whether they'd look similar...I think not? They're different colors after all, and the two settings have different galleries. One spinel is more elongated, and the other spinel is more square.
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