The ring is finished. And I love it!

[lovemesomecolor]

Hi everyone! I posted a few days ago on Share The bling but because I know some of the frequent posters on the colored stone forum don't frequent other areas, I wanted to come here and thank all of the people who took the time to help this newbie out on her first project.
Chrono, MinouxBijoux, Freke, Niel and the others who helped... Thank you. Maybe you've seen the other post on STB, maybe not. If you haven't, after redoing the top part of the ring this is the finished project. I like it a lot. It's what I really wanted and we just need to go over the prongs again but I was traveling to Europe to see the future husband's family and make our engagement official by announcing it in person. So we didn't have the time to fix them right there. Will do so when I come back as they definitely need some work!

But here's the final product. This spinel changes color quite a lot. But it is very beautiful. At least in my
Opinion, lol. In person when I see it it is pure pink. But then other times it looks more purplish. And other times kinda reddish. I guess she is moody

 

[Vidalia]

Beautiful! Congratulations!

 

[lovemesomecolor]

 

[JewelFreak]

That is SO pretty! It looks just wonderful on your hand too -- good size to get noticed, but the color & setting deserve it anyway. Where in Europe is your fiance from? Will you be living here or there? My husband is Dutch -- we moved over there after about 3 months of marriage, great experience for 5 years. Enjoy your visit!

 

[Gypsy]

I love that color with the contrast to the white halo!

Can you post more information for those of us just coming in at the end?

What are the stats on the stone? Measurements? Carat weight (do you have pictures unset).

What is the metal on the setting (is it all yellow gold or just the prongs) and who made it??

What size finger?

We'd love more details!

 

[chrono]

Thank you for coming back with updates and pictures because you are correct; many of us rarely stop by the other sections of the forum. It will look even better once the prongs are trimmed. Congrats on your engagement and new ring.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

That is SO pretty! It looks just wonderful on your hand too -- good size to get noticed, but the color & setting deserve it anyway. Where in Europe is your fiance from? Will you be living here or there? My husband is Dutch -- we moved over there after about 3 months of marriage, great experience for 5 years. Enjoy your visit!

Hi! Thank you JewelFreak! Btw, your profile pic ring is one of my favorites in all Pricescope!!! One of those that made me see yellow gold in a different light

He is German. We split our time between Puerto Rico (my country) and Germany depending on work as we both run small businesses. We run away from the most brutal temperatures in both countries. In winter, we usually run from snow. In summer we run from the brutal heat in the island! Lol I love it here. We live in an area where in a 2 hour drive we are in Milan, 45 mins in Austria, a couple hours in Switzerland... Plus it's nice, calm and gorgeous where we are. Not much to do if you are a big city person but if you love outdoors this is heaven. In summer anyway hehe

 

[lovemesomecolor]

Thank you for coming back with updates and pictures because you are correct; many of us rarely stop by the other sections of the forum. It will look even better once the prongs are trimmed. Congrats on your engagement and new ring.

Thanks Chrono! Will post here some pics when it's finished. Hey one question. In your opinion, how do the claw prongs look better... When they look like they start from the bottom of the stone and crawl onto the side and over the stone of when they start on the top of the ring on the halo? This pics aren't the best but give an idea

 

[lovemesomecolor]

I love that color with the contrast to the white halo!

Can you post more information for those of us just coming in at the end?

What are the stats on the stone? Measurements? Carat weight (do you have pictures unset).

What is the metal on the setting (is it all yellow gold or just the prongs) and who made it??

What size finger?

We'd love more details!

Hi Gypsy
I have many pictures of the stone and also the changes we made in the process because there was a misunderstanding. Either I didn't explain myself well enough or the jeweler did not understand well at first. But I have those pics in the computer. Lord and it's 1:43 am here. I guess I am still very jetlagged as I feel as it's just 5pm I will very happily be be back tomorrow with pics and specs

 

[chrono]

I'm not sure what you mean. There are close-ups of the prongs on my ring here. They start at the top of the halo.
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/3-ct-lm-inspired-ew-double-halo.193725/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/3-ct-lm-inspired-ew-double-halo.193725/[/URL]

I also have another where it starts at the base or donut too, so perhaps it is personal preference.

 

[pregcurious]

Your ring looks lovely!

 

[derbygal]

Really loving the pink. And the halo.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

I love that color with the contrast to the white halo!

Can you post more information for those of us just coming in at the end?

What are the stats on the stone? Measurements? Carat weight (do you have pictures unset).

What is the metal on the setting (is it all yellow gold or just the prongs) and who made it??

What size finger?

We'd love more details!

Hi, Gypsy!

Well, to start, after a search for sapphires turned into discovering spinel,all I wanted was a pink spinel, preferably cushion cut. Maybe round. After months of research and emails with some of the cutters I read about here on the forum, I was feeling pretty much hopeless so I decided it was ok if I found a beautiful lavender spinel. I saw what looked like a lavender spinel on Roger Dery's site and emailed him about it. To my surprise, Roger said it was pink!
Check the picture I saw at the beginning on his page. When he said it was pink, we agreed on him sending it so I could see it in person and decide.



Specs as presented to me by Roger are : 2.17 carats (7.6x7.2x4.95mm) . VVS on GIAs colored gemstone scale and although a cushion cut, it has a Portuguese cut facet pattern. Roger mentioned it being mined in Mahenge, Tanzania around the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012

Now check what my eyes saw when the stone arrived. I must say again it is a funky stone. It changes color quite a bit.


I knew I wanted a custom setting. A halo but with some extra details. But I was so new to this and it was a bit intimidating shipping the stone after all it took finding it! So I finally met a local jeweler (Puerto Rico). His name is Carlos Di Ois and he does everything the old school way. No CAD, no wax. Just handwork.

Here are the links to the previous posts while we were working on it
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/pink-spinel-ring.202387/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/pink-spinel-ring.202387/[/URL]
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/spinel-ring-project.203823/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/spinel-ring-project.203823/[/URL]
I did not love the top as I wanted the halo to have as little metal seen as possible. Just the little diamonds as close to each other as they could be mounted with no gaps. And the setting was too big for the spinel anyway :-/. So we went ahead and decided a re do of the halo. Now we still need to re do the prongs! lol I am sure the poor guy is not used to doing that type of prong. But he just did some claw prongs on my niece's engagement ring and they turned out pretty good for what I saw on the pics she sent me! . He is a bit old school but is very responsible and it was great working with him.

Edit: Whoops. Forgot to mention the size. 5. It's a bit tighter than usual as fingers were a bit swollen after flying all day the day before.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

I'm not sure what you mean. There are close-ups of the prongs on my ring here. They start at the top of the halo.
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/3-ct-lm-inspired-ew-double-halo.193725/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/3-ct-lm-inspired-ew-double-halo.193725/[/URL]

I also have another where it starts at the base or donut too, so perhaps it is personal preference.

Sorry. English is my second language and sometimes it's hard to express exactly what I am thinking! I'm not sure if you can see it but in the pictures one of the rings has the claw prongs start at the outer edge of the halo. The other one just where the stone ends. But I guess yes, as you said, it is just a matter of preference.

 

[missy]

It's a beautiful ring. I love the color(s) and the setting and I hope the prongs are perfect for you very soon. I think it looks amazing. Wear in health and happiness!

 

[lovemesomecolor]

Your ring looks lovely!

Thank you! I love the red beauty on your profile picture! I want a red stone someday when I grow up
I wanted to go to the gem show here on Idar Oberstein, Germany to see if I found anything but I have to go back to the island earlier. Booo. Also The Munich Show, another gem and mineral show is right after the one in Idar in October :-/. And Basel is just a couple hour drive from here. I hope I can plan a special schedule for next year!!!

 

[FrekeChild]

Congratulations! I still laugh at Roger's photo! It looks gorgeous and I'm so happy at how beautiful it came out! Certainly an item you will cherish for a lifetime.

 

[woofmama]

Your ring is beautiful! How nice that you found your dream stone When it comes to gemstones color is so hard to determine from pictures, lucky that you contacted Roger. Congratulations!

 

[ilovegemstones]

Congratulations and what a lucky find! I am so glad you contacted him and found that out and took a chance!

 

[Acinom]

Amazing stone and a beautiful setting. What a great find!! The color is soo beautiful and warm.

I prefer it when the prongs seems to come from underneath the stone. But both options can be stunning if executed well.
Here is my halo ring: the prongs seem to come from 'within':

 

[chrono]

The important thing (for me) in a halo is to have the prongs come up in-between and in front of the diamond melees, not take the place OF a diamond melee.

 

[T L]

The important thing (for me) in a halo is to have the prongs come up in-between and in front of the diamond melees, not take the place OF a diamond melee.

It's funny Chrono because I'm looking at my LOGR halos right now, and none of them are like this. The prongs come up nicely and do not take the place of a melee. Odd.

 

[chrono]

I have no idea; is it possible that they changed their casting molds?

 

[T L]

I have no idea; is it possible that they changed their casting molds?

Not sure, but by the looks of their listings, they advertise like their workmanship is top notch.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

The important thing (for me) in a halo is to have the prongs come up in-between and in front of the diamond melees, not take the place OF a diamond melee.

It's funny Chrono because I'm looking at my LOGR halos right now, and none of them are like this. The prongs come up nicely and do not take the place of a melee. Odd.

Hi TL and Chrono. I must clarify that picture is a screen grab from a quick Google search for claw prongs. It had the name of LOGR but honestly I have no idea if that was from their website or not. I did not click and just grabbed the image to post the question here. Now I wonder if perhaps someone posted that ring as made by them but perhaps it''s not one of their pieces.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

The important thing (for me) in a halo is to have the prongs come up in-between and in front of the diamond melees, not take the place OF a diamond melee.

Thanks for taking the time to illustrate that way! I like them that way better too. I can't wait to have them fixed. If he doesn't think he can do them I'm thinking of emailing some of the vendors here and see if anyone would be willing to work on them as there are very few jewelers here on the island that work on other things that are not minor and basic repairs, resizing of rings :-/.

 

[lovemesomecolor]

Amazing stone and a beautiful setting. What a great find!! The color is soo beautiful and warm.

I prefer it when the prongs seems to come from underneath the stone. But both options can be stunning if executed well.
Here is my halo ring: the prongs seem to come from 'within':

Beautiful ring and love the stone too!

 

[lovemesomecolor]

Congratulations! I still laugh at Roger's photo! It looks gorgeous and I'm so happy at how beautiful it came out! Certainly an item you will cherish for a lifetime.

Haha that photo certainly did not do justice to the poor spinel. But I honestly believe it is the reason why I was able to get my hands on it! I think had it been a better picture, maybe someone else would have gotten it first!

I am happy and honestly kind of relieved as when the jeweler did the first top I thought oh no... This is definitely not wanted. Maybe he won't be able to do what I want. And also I feel very lucky that by reading the CS forum posts I was able to avoid making terrible and costly mistakes such as the one I was very VERY close to making. Buying a $2,000 stone from Ebay and on top of it when I knew and still know nothing about gems other than the little things I've learned on this journey. The expression that comes to mind is ... Whew!