I started this process last October. Refresh of my wife''s engagement ring that we got 13 years ago when I knew little about diamonds. After weeks of reading PS, I had Bob at WF search for a pear. He found a near 3 carat eyeclean E SI1. I sent it to Mark Morrell in November. We kicked around ideas for weeks and had a plan at Christmas break. We ran into significant design challenges with a matching band. We tried all sorts of things. Mark finally cast an idea in silver and mailed it to us and we went back to the original design that he did. It looked much different than the CAD. We revised it a little with bigger stones and agreed to everything in February.
It is now almost 6 months into this and our Mark Morrell/WF ring is supposed to arrive this week, maybe Sat or Mon at the latest. We have never seen even the stone. It is a near 3 carat pear with tapered baguette sidestones that are .30 each. Traditional setting. It has a matching curved band with 3.2mm stones that go about 65% around, 9 stones if I recall. Mark tried different sizes and went specifically for 3.2mm so the shared prongs did not hit the prongs on the ring. It ends up to be near 5 carats in total.
The rings will be fused together so there was no need for a full eternity band. Mark is using a laser process to fuse the rings because he is concerned about the heat with solder. Our goal was to have as little metal showing as possible and to have all diamonds showing and this could create a problem if he started heating up the inside with solder now that everything is all set.
These last few weeks have really been dragging on. Pics to come soon.
It is now almost 6 months into this and our Mark Morrell/WF ring is supposed to arrive this week, maybe Sat or Mon at the latest. We have never seen even the stone. It is a near 3 carat pear with tapered baguette sidestones that are .30 each. Traditional setting. It has a matching curved band with 3.2mm stones that go about 65% around, 9 stones if I recall. Mark tried different sizes and went specifically for 3.2mm so the shared prongs did not hit the prongs on the ring. It ends up to be near 5 carats in total.
The rings will be fused together so there was no need for a full eternity band. Mark is using a laser process to fuse the rings because he is concerned about the heat with solder. Our goal was to have as little metal showing as possible and to have all diamonds showing and this could create a problem if he started heating up the inside with solder now that everything is all set.
These last few weeks have really been dragging on. Pics to come soon.
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