Date: 2/16/2006 3:46:19 PM
Author: valeria101
If there was a casting flaw right where the seat for the pave was drilled... it would look like that. No wall-hitting needed.... as far as I know.
I doubt WF could have known of the hidden flaw - for some ''serious'' machine parts, tracking internal flaws from casting is a usual concern... but I have never heard of jewelers using tests for internal casting flows. And that ring seems to have been particularly (un)lucky to get whatever structural weakness arranged just so that the shank snaps on opposite sides
Hope they can redo the ring for you.
Even if the ring had a flaw from casting, it is not something the maker could have seen or avoided. All cast jewelry comes with this curse... this piece is getting close to the limit of how carved, pieced and light castings can be... and that is why insurance is such good news.
I am not very convinced that either the shape or the location of that break indicates... karate practice. An it may well be that no ne can tell what was the initial flaw in the metal (if any) that made that particular bit of ring into a week point. For example, if only one point of the shank would tend to break - I would think that having the rest sound (without a second break) should prevent a rupture from actually occuring. But this is none of my business.
It doesn''t look like this mishap is any reason to discount WF''s jewelry making or keep this ring at fault with anything. Even if it were a casting flaw amiss... because it is well known how these things are difficult to controll and detect.
It wouldn''t be a reson to run away from any cast jewelry... because that would do away with two thirds of the designs out there.
Whatever happened, needs fixin''
I am not very convinced that either the shape or the location of that break indicates... karate practice. An it may well be that no ne can tell what was the initial flaw in the metal (if any) that made that particular bit of ring into a week point. For example, if only one point of the shank would tend to break - I would think that having the rest sound (without a second break) should prevent a rupture from actually occuring. But this is none of my business.
Count me in on the "def. don''t think it''s your fault" front. And, of course, I don''t think you''re lying!! As much as all us "newly engaged" gals obsess and check out and gaze lovingly at our BLING ... you''d surely have noticed this happening so it likely happened suddenly (like normal squeezing on the steering wheel - which other pros have mentioned as a sometimes stress on jewelry).
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