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diamond earrings re-do...can this be done???

P: 8/26/2007 11:36:01 PM
snowflakeluvr Cut Rock Total Posts: 296 Last Post: 10/28/2009 Member Since: 7/15/2006	what a wonderful forum here! i love reading and learning about my favorite things-diamonds. here's my dilemma" i have a pair of 18k white gold diamond earrings, in a flower shape, a center stone surrounded by several diamonds, tcw 2.64. they are in a post setting. the problem is that i rarely wear them, had them custom made and they are a little "big" for my earlobes, a little much for everyday wear. would it be possible to add/solder(sp?) some type of leverback to them to make them dangly earrings instead of posts? would this be possible? would the diamond earring part be secure if this is done? any thoughts? thank you!
Posted: 8/26/2007 11:36:01 PM

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P: 8/26/2007 11:45:02 PM
marcyc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,812 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 2/27/2007	It is hard to say without seeing them but I have had several earrings with posts made in to leverbacks. My jeweler just added a little mount at the top and put them on the leverbacks. They turned out pretty good. I like dangle earrings better than large post earrings. I like my post earrings to be pretty small (usually 4 mm). I can't wait to see them if you decide to do it. Sparkle On My Friends!
Posted: 8/26/2007 11:45:02 PM

P: 8/26/2007 11:58:24 PM
snowflakeluvr Cut Rock Total Posts: 296 Last Post: 10/28/2009 Member Since: 7/15/2006	thank you marcy. i am quite computer illiterate and cannot seem to reduce my file size to show pics of them? i am also presently helping teen-age son finish a paper(ugh) i'll keep trying. thanks-i hope if i can show the pics,it will give me a clear-cut answer if this is feasible. they are gorgeous earrings but only are worn on special occasions and the idea just popped into my lil' ole head today.
Posted: 8/26/2007 11:58:24 PM

P: 8/27/2007 12:18:38 AM
monarch64 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,544 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 8/12/2005	It sounds like you can definitely have them converted/re-made into leverback earrings. Either that style, or another idea might be to attach them to a vertical row of stones or just a wire with a diamond stud on top, if that makes sense. I.e., the "old" earring would be dangling from a stud followed by a line of 5-6 stones depending on proportion and size of the stones in your original earring, etc. I'll see if I can find a pic representing what I'm thinking of. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Posted: 8/27/2007 12:18:38 AM

P: 8/27/2007 12:23:01 AM
monarch64 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,544 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 8/12/2005	Obviously this is not a close representation (since your earrings are a cluster of diamonds in a flower shape and not squared like these), but this is what I was thinking when I suggested a post/diamond at the top to go into your earlobe and followed by a line of stones leading down to the actual original earring. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Posted: 8/27/2007 12:23:01 AM

P: 8/27/2007 4:21:12 PM
strmrdr Ideal Rock Total Posts: 23,296 Last Post: 10/9/2009 Member Since: 11/1/2003	shouldnt be a problem and shouldnt cost a whole lot. ........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K
Posted: 8/27/2007 4:21:12 PM

P: 8/27/2007 4:48:22 PM
snowflakeluvr Cut Rock Total Posts: 296 Last Post: 10/28/2009 Member Since: 7/15/2006	thank you all. i have been trying since last night to figure out how to share photos but i am very very slow. don't know how to reduce size of files???? i will talk to a jeweler tomorrow, me thinks. hate for these to spend most of their days in a drawer. thanks again!
Posted: 8/27/2007 4:48:22 PM

P: 8/27/2007 5:00:22 PM
nebe Ideal Rock Total Posts: 898 Last Post: 9/17/2009 Member Since: 8/22/2007	My boyfriend bought me a pair of square pave earrings that I love, but they were too big from my ears (I sleep with my earrings on and they hurt me) so I had them reset on leverbacks (some jewelers call them "euro loops" go fig) It cost me $75 at my local shop and took a week. I had them put right on the earring though, they don't dangle, that would require an extra loop and it wasn't the look I was going for, but he offered to do it without extra charge. They fit a lot better now. Definitely worth it! ~~~~~~ Nessa Be. Adam Levy "I don't see them as flaws, I see them as God's little artistic choices."
Posted: 8/27/2007 5:00:22 PM

P: 8/27/2007 5:20:25 PM
justjulia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,303 Last Post: 7/23/2009 Member Since: 4/4/2006	Definitely, it can be done. I just did it. Actually, I had two 1 c each studs made into leverbacks and I love how they dangle and catch the light. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." J Keats
Posted: 8/27/2007 5:20:25 PM

P: 8/28/2007 2:12:24 PM
Julianna Ideal Rock Total Posts: 504 Last Post: 10/29/2009 Member Since: 3/19/2007	Date: 8/27/2007 4:48:22 PM Author: snowflakeluvr thank you all. i have been trying since last night to figure out how to share photos but i am very very slow. don't know how to reduce size of files???? i will talk to a jeweler tomorrow, me thinks. hate for these to spend most of their days in a drawer. thanks again! Open your files with software such as Paint or Photoshop (or any other photo-editing software) and use the resize function to make the photos smaller. With Paint, the resize function is called "stretch/skew", but with photo-editing software there should just be a function called resize. Have your kid help you out, that's what he's there for!
Posted: 8/28/2007 2:12:24 PM

P: 8/28/2007 2:18:27 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 8/28/2007 2:12:24 PM Author: Julianna Open your files with software such as Paint or Photoshop (or any other photo-editing software) and use the resize function to make the photos smaller. With Paint, the resize function is called 'stretch/skew', but with photo-editing software there should just be a function called resize. Have your kid help you out, that's what he's there for! And if that doesn't work, email them to Admin and Andrey will post them for you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 8/28/2007 2:18:27 PM

P: 8/28/2007 2:32:02 PM
Julianna Ideal Rock Total Posts: 504 Last Post: 10/29/2009 Member Since: 3/19/2007	Date: 8/28/2007 2:18:27 PM Author: Ellen And if that doesn't work, email them to Admin and Andrey will post them for you. Exactly.
Posted: 8/28/2007 2:32:02 PM

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