Date: 3/2/2006 9:39:49 PM
Author: valeria101
Lots of great advice about the diamond...
Retunring to the setting part... it looks like the ''tulip'' head + a skinny cathedral shank are the winners - waiting to be put together.
Both components reside hapily on Wink''s list, in the form of a die-struck 2-2.5mm shank (if it comes 2.5mm... it can be polished thinner, the other way around it doesn''t work) and there is a tulip ring nearby, so the heads should be right there waiting too.
Well finished and polished, the sum total should look pretty darn good. Perhaps the height of the head can also be adjusted upon assembly, since you liked the lower profile of the Niwaka ring.
If you wonder what a 40 pts diamond looks like in on of these tulip heads, here''s one
Date: 3/2/2006 10:58:40 PM
Author: Small
That looks fabulous! I''m not a huge fan of the tulip but I think that''s the best looking one I''ve seen yet! Argh...check on Wink''s selection of diamonds. I just bought something from him and he''s spectacular to work with
Well you did a great job...looks wonderful! Makes me almost wish you would have posted that before I chose the platinum cathedral for my stone. But I know the cathedral will look awesome so no worries. But ARGH...pay attention...that looks great!Date: 3/2/2006 11:12:50 PM
Author: valeria101
Date: 3/2/2006 10:58:40 PM
Author: Small
That looks fabulous! I''m not a huge fan of the tulip but I think that''s the best looking one I''ve seen yet! Argh...check on Wink''s selection of diamonds. I just bought something from him and he''s spectacular to work withcouldn''t help trying to put the pieces together - at least on paper (so to speak).
Just giggling to myself picturing this whole exchange. Get her the .42 from WF. She will LOVE it. Way to go on impressing her, BTW. Lots of (not most, not all) guys wouldn''t try that hard. You''re a peach.Date: 3/6/2006 6:09:26 PM
Author: argh&stuff
Well, I never told her I posted, she just found out I''d been learning about diamonds, and since I''m not a fast thinker when I''m on the spot, I had to cough up that Pricescope taught me things.
It happened like this: She''d mentioned a few days after I ''found'' the tulip setting, that she''d just found a picture of one online, and liked it a lot... So, this weekend, we went to see if we could find one for her to try on (to see if the diamond would sit low enough for her or not...) and while we were there this salesperson tried his smooth talking lines and all that, so I asked him questions about the diamond in the solitaire he''d been trying to hype up, and he didn''t know the answer to the depth of the stone, whether or not the stone had been treated in any way, or if it was certified.
She asked how I knew those things (very IMPRESSED, by the way... thanks all!!!!), and I didn''t know what to say other than Pricescope had a lot of information on diamonds, and I''d taken some time to learn more about them, so I''d hold less of a chance of being scammed.
She was SO thrilled, and it was hard not to show her the .42 diamond at whiteflash (which far outshined the diamond that bafooon was trying to sell for a ridiculous price). So, I showed her. I know it''s just a picture, but she LOVED it...
And so, the wheels started turning, and now she''s trying VERY hard to convince me to get it, and to do the setting I want, ''as long as it has a tulip head or a cathedral, or both.'' (That means, I think, that she wants both, but still wants me to think I''m holding the cards. Yeah ooookay...)
I hope to goodness she doesn''t snoop around and ''find'' me here... She''s pretty busy with a project for work right now, so that may occupy her time. I''m gonna hate having to think up all new ideas for asking her to be mine for life...
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