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The Longest Search for a Tennis Bracelet in History

P: 5/30/2007 11:31:14 AM
AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,048 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003	I really think that mine may be a record for the longest search for a tennis bracelet in history. I have a five page thread about the start of my search to which anyone who wants a refresher may turn. http://www.pricescope.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=35180 After the exhaustion of the first foray into the world of tennis bracelets and realizing that I could apparently not buy my bracelet setting already made, I took a long break from even thinking about a bracelet. Now I have started to think about the process again, but this time have started with the setting. I have approached a jeweler-my local jeweler-about making a setting by hand in platinum that resembles the Stuller setting that Wink was unable to obtain. My local jeweler told me of a place in Germany that makes these by hand and gave me an estimate. The idea would be that I could then buy stones from Wink in the certain knowledge that they would be set exactly as I wanted them set. For practical purposes, this would have to be done in stages, I think. I have to see the German company's designs for the setting. I also have to start talking to Wink about stones again, even if I am not ready to take the plunge yet. As always, I welcome advice! Deborah A Girl's Best Friend
Posted: 5/30/2007 11:31:14 AM

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P: 5/30/2007 11:35:49 AM
Chrono Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,342 Last Post: 11/25/2009 Member Since: 4/22/2004	Deb, I can't seem to get to that page through your link.
Posted: 5/30/2007 11:35:49 AM

P: 5/30/2007 11:44:55 AM
AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,048 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003	Date: 5/30/2007 11:35:49 AM Author: Chrono Deb, I can't seem to get to that page through your link. It was broken, Chrono. I think I have fixed it. Thank you for pointing that out! Deb A Girl's Best Friend
Posted: 5/30/2007 11:44:55 AM

P: 5/30/2007 2:44:24 PM
mrssalvo Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,860 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/3/2005	Hi Deb, I haven't been researching bracelets at all so I don't have any suggestions off the top of my head. but, a couple of years have gone by since you started your search, is it possible that there might be something out there now that is ready made? If not, then I think contacting Wink and getting the ball rolling again is a great idea. ----------------------------- A deal is only a deal if you are getting exactly what you want.
Posted: 5/30/2007 2:44:24 PM

P: 5/30/2007 5:04:49 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 5/30/2007 2:44:24 PM Author: mrssalvo Hi Deb, I haven't been researching bracelets at all so I don't have any suggestions off the top of my head. but, a couple of years have gone by since you started your search, is it possible that there might be something out there now that is ready made? If not, then I think contacting Wink and getting the ball rolling again is a great idea. Ditto to all. And let us know what you find out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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."
Posted: 5/30/2007 5:04:49 PM

P: 5/30/2007 9:13:22 PM
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005	Deb, I just read through all 5 pages of that last thread. Whew! Are you still thinking you want bezel set stones, or are you considering the martini setting (which seemed to be the most minimal in terms of metal)? One question I had, upon reading the thread, which wasn't asked then is this: the tradeshop mounting Wink sent you - yes the bezels were pretty big, but how much would that be diminished upon setting the stone? Obviously some of that has to secure the stone in place. Was it the top view or the side view of the metal that you didn't like?
Posted: 5/30/2007 9:13:22 PM

P: 5/31/2007 4:42:09 PM
AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,048 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003	Date: 5/30/2007 9:13:22 PM Author: FireGoddess I just read through all 5 pages of that last thread. Whew! FireGoddess, you're a heroine! That is way above and beyond the call of duty! Thank you! Where I left off is wanting a setting like that in the Stuller bracelet. I think that the way that the stones are linked matters to me. I hate a lot of metal and although the way Wink set the stones in the other bracelet he made was gorgeous, I did not want the metal on mine attached twice. If the Stuller setting is not safe, however, I wouldn't want to copy it! That is why I have asked for sketches of the design that the company in Germany is proposing. I am hoping to get a delicate look with a sturdy design, which is what I was able to have when I eventually got the solitaire I wanted, the "invisible solitaire" about which some of you have heard :-). Deb A Girl's Best Friend
Posted: 5/31/2007 4:42:09 PM

P: 5/31/2007 4:58:15 PM
AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,048 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003	This is the setting I asked Wink to find (and which he was unable to find), the Stuller. I would have loved to have this setting if it were capable of holding diamonds the size we had been discussing. I would have bought the bracelet for sale on-line for $18,000 had it been available, too! When Ana came across it, I think it had been a stray on sale on a lonely website with some other antique type odds and ends. Does anyone know how this bracelet is constructed, how sturdy it is? A Girl's Best Friend
Posted: 5/31/2007 4:58:15 PM

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