Green stone as baguette?
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Or a pale tourmaline or tsavorite.
You''ll probably pay less for the paler colours as they are less sought after. I wouldn''t personally go for peridot - it''s only a 6.5 on the moh and I''ve had more than one break on me - and they were in earrings not a ring! You wouldn''t want to wear it every day with them in. As a tsav fan, I would probably go with them - they are untreated, 7.5 on the moh, it''s not hard to find a clean one and are sparkley. Wink could source you some nice ones. Are you going with tapered baguettes (a la Harry Winston) or or straight ones? |
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These may be totally NOT what you are looking for but they might trigger some ideas for some options. The photos are from Barmakian.
The people at Saturn Jewels will customize any of their semi mounts to your specs. You could incorporate your green stones in combination with the diamonds in the mounts. Here's a pic of some of their mounts. I have spoken to the owners and am considering them as a possibility for the remount of one of my diamonds. They have been very easy to work with so far.
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Okay, I''m going to be the contrary one! Just because I have a favorite color, it does not mean I''d want that color in my engagement ring. Green particularly does not go with everything, and I would never even consider adding green side stones unless she herself expressed that that was what she wanted. Please go with all diamonds! Save the green for a lovely right hand ring for her birthday or an anniversary!
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Lol, I''m going to disagree with Diamondseeker here.
I think adding some coloured stones makes for more of a unique ring. I designed an e-ring for my FSIL with a 1.52ct rb with 0.35 emerald pears on the sides. She is American, not English, so I was a little wary if she would like it. She loves it and says she gets loads of compliments on it. I have a green e-ring - it was totally my choice of stone, design etc etc and I don''t find green a problem with clothes etc - it goes with most things. I''m also not the kind of person who wears rings on the whole, so a RHR wouldn''t be my thing. Sad in a way as there are loads of gorgeous rings out there, but they would never get worn. At the end of the day, you know your gf and her tastes, but it seems to me that she is quite into the green idea. I would probably do a very simple setting for the ring. |
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Figured I would throw these in to be different, they are kind of blueish green and obviously incandescent lighting will change the color to the reddish, but for hardness and everyday wear, it is hard to beat alexandrite. If one could find some nice green colored crysoberyl or sapphire that actually matches that would be nice but it is pretty difficult to do that.
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Not sure just yet. Probably tapered. Wink? I''m not sure what/who that is... How does the hardness of chrysoberyl compare to tsav? Thanks for the suggestions! |
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I would stay away from peridots as sidestones for an e-ring. They are much too soft. Tsavorites and tourmalines are better choices and since you want them to be very light, they''ll be reasonably priced. Wink is a reputable vendor of diamonds and coloured gemstones. He sourced my sapphire sidestones for my right hand ring. You can reach him here:
www.winkjones.com |
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Chrysoberyl is an 8.5 on the moh, so will be quite a bit harder than tsavorite - but you may find it harder to source...
Alexandrite is a variety of chrysoberyl I believe. I only like REALLY good ones and they are serious $$$$. Wink found my tsav for me and is currently hunting me down another. I love the look of tapered baguette sides on an rb. I just had Wink do exactly that (but all in diamonds) for my brother - it's such a classic look. |
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Another question: When requesting a tapered stone from a dealer, I assume specifying the cut is easy enough, but how do you specify the dimensions appropriately? |
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Normally, you find the setting first and then the stones - unless you want to go custom, which will take longer and cost more.
The stones are then selected to fit the setting sizes. Best bet once you have decided what you want is to contact whoever you want to get the setting from and ask them to source the stones - they will have better contacts than you will be able to find. If you are using your own B&M jeweller, I don''t know what to suggest - but if you want to use a PS vendor there should be no problem and you can get the diamond from them as well. Remember - if you source the stones from one place and have them set elsewhere, you will need insurance to cover the stones as a jeweller won''t take responsibility for setting stones from other vendors. |
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I would totally use sythetics for a look like this!
http://www.newyorkestatejewelry.com/item.cfm?int_item_id=1213&category_id=1 |
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Good heavens, that is a gorgeous ring, Lisa. Yumm-o! I don''t think I''ll ever upgrade my center stone, but something like this would be a top contender for a re-mount project someday! Thanks for sharing! Kirk Kara is another designer who uses color stones in baguette form as sidestones. Sapphires are featured on his website (kirkkara.com) but I know he also can interchange rubies or possibly other stones if you supplied them...you could always call and ask if you found a setting of his that you fell in love with. I love the mint tourmaline someone posted, that is a gorgeous soft green color! |
