Nix on the pave -- new setting.

Since October I've had some melee fall out of my yellow gold setting.  I took it to the jeweler and asked about fixing the design problems with the dirt getting under the melee and replacing what fell out and decided it was more maintenance than I wanted to deal with.  My jeweler suggested making earrings out of the setting (not this week, LOL!) so with that in mind, I decided to have my .80 rb re-set.

The new setting is a solitaire, but it is really heavy -- lots of gold.  It's in the style of the tension settings but with a peg head.  It may not be very clear in these photos, but it is two tone, with the white gold on the shank of the ring.  I'm wearing it with my 13 stone wedding band.

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"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

*~~All I see are diamonds...~~*

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Piece of cake and a candle.
**ng gift**

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Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but some are more appealing than others.

Date: 1/7/2007 10:21:18 PM
Author: lumpkin
Thank you for the nice comments. I'm a little embarrassed because I just had this diamond set in October in an existing setting. It was really beautiful, but it got gunk under the melee and I cleaned it constantly, then melee fell out, it was a nightmare! I have to live in my ring -- there's no point in having it if I can't wear it, and I'm not one of the ladies who lunch, KWIM?

Tacori -- I think the design of your ring is better than mine was -- I'm sure you have the drilled seats for your melee so they are much easier to clean, thus you won't be damaging the bead prongs cleaning it every other minute, LOL!

So I do love this setting. It is very different from my last one. It's perfect for this diamond -- couldn't get a larger diameter diamond in it. Ellen -- I promise to take more and better pictures. I got a new camera and I'm getting used to it, so I'm taking a ton of pictures. These were the first of many, LOL!

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"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Date: 1/7/2007 10:45:25 PM
Author: Ellen

Date: 1/7/2007 10:21:18 PM
Author: lumpkin
Thank you for the nice comments. I'm a little embarrassed because I just had this diamond set in October in an existing setting. It was really beautiful, but it got gunk under the melee and I cleaned it constantly, then melee fell out, it was a nightmare! I have to live in my ring -- there's no point in having it if I can't wear it, and I'm not one of the ladies who lunch, KWIM?

Tacori -- I think the design of your ring is better than mine was -- I'm sure you have the drilled seats for your melee so they are much easier to clean, thus you won't be damaging the bead prongs cleaning it every other minute, LOL!

So I do love this setting. It is very different from my last one. It's perfect for this diamond -- couldn't get a larger diameter diamond in it. Ellen -- I promise to take more and better pictures. I got a new camera and I'm getting used to it, so I'm taking a ton of pictures. These were the first of many, LOL!

On the camera! And the pics are fine, it's just the indoors lighting that tends to leave out detail. I hope you aren't upset. After I posted, I thought, I hope I didn't sound like a director.

I'm so glad you like it, I know how much you liked your other setting. I did too, but I understand how problematic it had become.

Can't wait to see more pics!

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Skippy

"The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos

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Michelle

AKA Stretch4

I intend to live forever... so far, so good.

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"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Sara

The most beautiful experience we can have
is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which
stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
~ Albert Einstein ~

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Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but some are more appealing than others.

Beacon and Colorkitty – Let’s see if I can give you an idea.  I would take the sides of the old ring and make each side into a sort of huggy earring with omega backs.  There would be graduated channel set baguettes down the middle with a line of bead set melee on each side.  I’m not sure if I would put the wider part up or down.  At any rate it will be a very long time before I do it, because I will probably have them completely redone from wax and designed so that the melee doesn’t get yucky underneath.  Here’s a little cut out of one side of the ring to give you a sort of visual.

Cehrabehra – How funny!  I do look jaundiced.  But the camera doesn’t lie.  That’s my exact skin tone under that lighting.  I used to be a nail tech and wore sculpted French nails all the time because I felt I needed to advertise my product, but I’m glad I don’t have to any more.  Now I just polish a French manicure.

Woobug – I think you may be experiencing something similar, but they could never get the gunk completely cleaned out.  I had it soaked in an acid bath, etc.  Gary Holloway gave me a method of boiling water, putting it in a cup, and putting the ring in the hot water.  It did help a lot, but the problem kept returning, and it never was completely clean.  It really spoiled the look of the ring and made it look as if the diamonds were really gray and tinted.

Firegoddess – I regret to say I no longer have my pear.  I just couldn’t keep investing in settings trying to find the right one, so I traded it back to Abazias.  I took a bath on it, but fortunately, it was not a COLD bath, merely luke warm, LOL!  I’m not sorry I traded it, but I wish I could have had both.  It would have made a very nice pendant.  It was just too tinted to put in a halo.  If it had been whiter I would not have traded it, but the color eventually did bother me a lot, because it made setting it much more difficult.

I will take more pictures as soon as I can get some nice sunlight.

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Opinions are like belly buttons. Everyone has one, but some are more appealing than others.

******** Live Life, Love Someone and Laugh Everyday********
WOOO