swaye2010
Brilliant_Rock
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I posted about the problems with my yellow tourmaline before but finally got it set. I have been exploring colored stones and wanted to start with some affordable options with a new lapidary I had been working with. We found a light yellow piece of rough that he said would yield around a 2 carat moval stone and I went forward with the purchase.
I was really looking for a lemon yellow colored stone and I know tourmaline’s
]
can go a little golden. The original color was exactly what I was looking for.
I sent it off to be set but my box was completely destroyed during shipping and the tip was broken off the tourmaline. I had to send it back to the lapidary for a recut and ended up with a big window. In the meantime, I had purchased a pair of .50 J VS2 diamonds for the sides and debated changing the center stone out but I had already invested so much time into finding this stone that I just went ahead and set it. I thought about doing a gold cup to obscure the window but I couldn’t settle on a design so I decided just to roll with my original 3 stone idea. I went for 14K gold and was originally just going to have a miligrain trim but I didn’t like the finished look so I added some hand engraving and black rhoidum plating. The stone is more golden now which is the color I was trying to avoid. The ring itself turned out better then I expected but there are several things I would have probably changed. I started several project while recovering from a car accident but just didn’t have the energy to put into them like I normally do. At some point, I will probably change out the center for a yellow sapphire,
Here are a few glamour pics...its a pretty ring but it is not my favorite compared to a few of my others.
I was really looking for a lemon yellow colored stone and I know tourmaline’s
]
can go a little golden. The original color was exactly what I was looking for.
I sent it off to be set but my box was completely destroyed during shipping and the tip was broken off the tourmaline. I had to send it back to the lapidary for a recut and ended up with a big window. In the meantime, I had purchased a pair of .50 J VS2 diamonds for the sides and debated changing the center stone out but I had already invested so much time into finding this stone that I just went ahead and set it. I thought about doing a gold cup to obscure the window but I couldn’t settle on a design so I decided just to roll with my original 3 stone idea. I went for 14K gold and was originally just going to have a miligrain trim but I didn’t like the finished look so I added some hand engraving and black rhoidum plating. The stone is more golden now which is the color I was trying to avoid. The ring itself turned out better then I expected but there are several things I would have probably changed. I started several project while recovering from a car accident but just didn’t have the energy to put into them like I normally do. At some point, I will probably change out the center for a yellow sapphire,
Here are a few glamour pics...its a pretty ring but it is not my favorite compared to a few of my others.
. I love the tourmaline and it’s culet. The ring design is gorgeous!
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