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My curvaceous palladium ArtCarved setting!

P: 2/27/2008 1:27:18 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	I wasn't sure I was going to post pixs, but thought that since there wen't many (if any) pictures of palladium engagement rings, I'd go ahead and post mine after all! First, I love this setting! My stone (1.33 AGS000 H&A) was set in Blue Nile's simple 6 prong solitare. It was great, no complaints but it was a temp setting. How long I'd have it was in question because I wasn't actively looking for a new setting. I figured the one would jump out at me at the right time! And it did just much faster than I anticipated! I did find 1 at WhiteFlash that I almost pulled the trigger on, but I decided I didn't want to send my stone through the mail. At Jared's there was a Scott Kay platinum setting that was close, but it had surprise diamonds that I didn't care for and it was $3,000! I almost went for it but am so glad I didn't because for $3k, the setting would have to be 100% what I want, not 95%. I found my setting at my local jewelers waiting for my rings to be polished. It jumped out of the case at me because it was wide, but curvy, fluid almost. I put it on and the weight of the ring was exactly what I was looking for! The saleman told me it wa palladium and I thought he HAD to be wrong because it was so heavy, nothing like the lightness I had read so many times here. Best of all, the setting was $795, plus tax, no setting fee! Way below my budget and it wa exactly what I was looking for. The setting is ArtCarved's 'Desiree' and is 950 Palladium. It's 4.5mm at the top, 3mm at the bottom. It fits totally flush with my two wedding bands! If you got through all of that here are the pictures!
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:27:18 PM

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P: 2/27/2008 1:28:31 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Warning- I did not clean my ring before (clearly I should have!) and took the pictures quickly while my son naps
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P: 2/27/2008 1:29:37 PM
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P: 2/27/2008 1:31:15 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	With my 3mm platinum wedding band, in person, there is no difference between the 950 palladium and the platinum band.
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:31:15 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:31:48 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	I LOVE how curvy the top "shoulders" are!
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P: 2/27/2008 1:32:59 PM
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Posted: 2/27/2008 1:33:32 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:34:14 PM
Maisie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,767 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/30/2006	I really like the thick shank. Its so pretty. I'm glad you found a setting at a great price. I hear you about not wanting to mail your diamond, I have done it twice now! It arrived safetly both times, but its nerve wracking when its away!
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:34:14 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:35:01 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	...
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P: 2/27/2008 1:36:21 PM
EMPTorres Cut Rock Total Posts: 257 Last Post: 8/18/2009 Member Since: 4/19/2007	WOW.. That is gorgeous. Your stone looks HUGE..
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:36:21 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:37:52 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Date: 2/27/2008 1:34:14 PM Author: Maisie I really like the thick shank. Its so pretty. I'm glad you found a setting at a great price. I hear you about not wanting to mail your diamond, I have done it twice now! It arrived safetly both times, but its nerve wracking when its away! Thanks Maisie!! I've sent my old princess cut e-ring to Wf and it did arrive safely. But it took 10 days, it freaked me out and recently my dad sent something from Virginia to Arkansas and it took 3 WEEKS! That sealed the deal for me not to send it to WF. Nothing to do with them, just how it had to get there did.
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:37:52 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:40:56 PM
woobug02 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,095 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 11/12/2004	YEAH!!! Someone posted a palladium ring :) I have been waiting to see one.............. I LOVE YOUR RING!! Tell me all about the Palladium. Does it look like and feel like platinum? I want a wide band and am debating on a palladium band verse platinum to save cost but stay white like platinum. Your DIAMOND looks wonderful in this ring.... Did you have a princess cut before??? I can't remember... Remind me.. WOOO Tell me about your diamond...GORGEOUS!!!! Both of your bands loook GREAT!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ****** Live Life, Love Someone and Laugh Everyday****** WOOO
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:40:56 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:41:31 PM
Maisie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,767 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 12/30/2006	I was like this just after 3 days I don't know if I would have survived for ten days!!! You are really great at taking photos!! Your diamond is so clear!!!
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:41:31 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:46:01 PM
choro72 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,443 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/11/2008	Oh, thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU for posting this!! I've recently ordered a Palladium ring and I was really worried how it was going to turn out! It's gorgeous!!!
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:46:01 PM

P: 2/27/2008 1:54:52 PM
baby monster Ideal Rock Total Posts: 633 Last Post: 8/28/2008 Member Since: 7/2/2007	Very fluid setting. Love all the arrow shots
Posted: 2/27/2008 1:54:52 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:00:10 PM
Jenn5504 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,166 Last Post: 8/20/2009 Member Since: 5/21/2007	It's very pretty and fluid! Congratulations! You have lovely hands, too!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:00:10 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:01:53 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Date: 2/27/2008 1:36:21 PM Author: EMPTorres WOW.. That is gorgeous. Your stone looks HUGE.. Thank you Torres! My one worry while I waited the 3 weeks for ArtCarved to make the setting (the in store setting was for a princess cut) was that since it was pretty wide that it would make my diamond looked smaller. Quite the opposite! It makes it look much bigger than the thin setting it was in!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:01:53 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:05:55 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Wow, what a bargain! Your stone looks great in it, and I like the "cathedral" feel of the profile, but yet it's a little different. And your wedding bands fit perfectly with it. Bravo! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 2/27/2008 2:05:55 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:06:29 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Date: 2/27/2008 1:40:56 PM Author: woobug02 YEAH!!! Someone posted a palladium ring :) I have been waiting to see one.............. I LOVE YOUR RING!! Tell me all about the Palladium. Does it look like and feel like platinum? I want a wide band and am debating on a palladium band verse platinum to save cost but stay white like platinum. Your DIAMOND looks wonderful in this ring.... Did you have a princess cut before??? I can't remember... Remind me.. WOOO Tell me about your diamond...GORGEOUS!!!! Both of your bands loook GREAT!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Hi Wooooooooooooooooooooo! I love the palladium! It looks just like my platinum rings (I'm wearing it with my plain plat 3mm wedding band right now and there isn't a stitch of difference in color!), the cost was 50% LESS than if I ordered the same ring in platinum. I did have a princess cut before but it chipped! Thankfully, it was insured and I decided to jump over to the round side when I replaced my stone. Square cuts are my first love in diamonds, but no one better pry my round diamond off my finger!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:06:29 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:08:31 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Date: 2/27/2008 1:46:01 PM Author: choro72 Oh, thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU for posting this!! I've recently ordered a Palladium ring and I was really worried how it was going to turn out! It's gorgeous!!! Choro- I did many searches on palladium while I waited for my setting to come in. When they set my diamond yesterday and handed it to me, I gasped! The palladium was gleaming! I absolutely love it.
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:08:31 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:09:23 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Thank you BabyMonster and Jenn!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:09:23 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:12:21 PM
february2003bride Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,100 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/18/2005	Date: 2/27/2008 2:05:55 PM Author: Ellen Wow, what a bargain! Your stone looks great in it, and I like the 'cathedral' feel of the profile, but yet it's a little different. And your wedding bands fit perfectly with it. Bravo! Thank you Ellen!! I love cathedral settings. They always catch my eye in stores and here on PS. My first e-ring was a cathedral setting, but this time around I didn't want the shank to arch (if that makes sense) but rather curve. Thank you again!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:12:21 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:22:55 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 2/27/2008 2:12:21 PM Author: february2003bride Thank you Ellen!! I love cathedral settings. They always catch my eye in stores and here on PS. My first e-ring was a cathedral setting, but this time around I didn't want the shank to arch (if that makes sense) but rather curve. Thank you again! I've always loved them too, and almost went with one with this upgrade. Enjoy your beauty, and you're welcome! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 2/27/2008 2:22:55 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:32:58 PM
emilina22 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,390 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 2/10/2007	i really like how liquidy it looks..like smooth and how well it flows...your stone looks great in it!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:32:58 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:35:58 PM
coatimundi_org Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,312 Last Post: 6/7/2009 Member Since: 12/9/2007	I absolutely love it! What a gorgeous and fluid setting. It looks beautiful on your hand! Looks great with the bands! (We're princess channel set twinkies!) Coati, G.G.
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:35:58 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:52:52 PM
Catmom Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,756 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/6/2005	Wow, your wedding bands really do go perfectly with it! Your stone looks huge in it's new home. Congratulations on a great new setting! Michelle *****************************So many sparklies.....So little time!
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:52:52 PM

P: 2/27/2008 2:58:37 PM
Angel7 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,997 Last Post: 8/7/2008 Member Since: 1/18/2005	It's beautiful! I'm also considering palladium..glad to see there is no difference! Congrats! ____________________________________________________________________________________ "Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one"
Posted: 2/27/2008 2:58:37 PM

P: 2/27/2008 3:03:34 PM
Çăhër§ Cut Rock Total Posts: 402 Last Post: 9/8/2009 Member Since: 3/4/2006	Date: 2/27/2008 1:32:59 PM Author: february2003bride ... let me honestly say that your arrow shot is utterly gorgeous!! very nice!!! congratulations to you!
Posted: 2/27/2008 3:03:34 PM

P: 2/27/2008 3:31:41 PM
vespergirl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,928 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 1/29/2007	WOW!!! Gorgeous, I love it, and it looks great with the bands too! I especially like it with the channel set band!
Posted: 2/27/2008 3:31:41 PM

P: 2/27/2008 7:06:12 PM
*DiamondDana** Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,172 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 7/21/2006	It looks great! I love it with both bands...honestly, I could not tell you which one I prefer! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you judge people, you have no time to love them ~Mother Teresa
Posted: 2/27/2008 7:06:12 PM

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