CAD of Split Shank with Rose Gold Halo - Version 2!

[FieryBrilliance]

Hi All,

I posted earlier in the week w/ pictures of my first set of CAD renderings from Chris@ERD (see original post here: [URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/cad-of-split-shank-with-rose-gold-halo-feedback-please.191776/#post-3492745#p3492745']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/cad-of-split-shank-with-rose-gold-halo-feedback-please.191776/#post-3492745#p3492745[/URL]) and took a lot of the feedback I received into consideration when requesting some modifications to the original design.

The second CADs are now in and I have to say I love them. Much of the feedback I got from the originals was that a double band wide split shank setting was too much and so I asked them to narrow into a single band with a more narrow split shank. I also asked them to elevate the halo a little bit and have the shanks tuck underneath it somewhat, as if hoisting it up. Lastly, I added some stones to the perimeter of the halo as well as the top, inspired by AshokaLuv's great halo (http://www.pricescope.com/blog/jewel-week-ashoka-diamond-ring).

I realize that this ring isn't the most delicate of settings, but as much as I tried to push her in that direction, the lady wants what the lady wants and this is pretty close to that...

Here are the new renderings. Would love to know your thoughts!

 

[SB621]

I love the 2nd rendition! And I think you will be surprised how delicate it will look once made. CADs make all most any ring look bulky. I think it will be lovely when completed.

The only question is how far do the diamonds go down? it is a 3/4 or half eternity? I can't really tell from the pictures.

EDIT FOR SPELLING!!!

 

[Christina...]

Gorgeous!

 

[Rosebloom]

It's really lovely. I can't wait to see the finished product!

 

[tyty333]

I like it too!

 

[FieryBrilliance]

I love the 2nd rendition! And I think you will be surprised how delicate it will look once made. CADs make all most any ring look bulky. I think it will be lovely when completed.

The only question is how far do the diamonds go down? it is a 3/4 or half eternity? I can't really tell from the pictures.

EDIT FOR SPELLING!!!

The CAD designer took it from a full eternity to 3/4, and chose larger stones to go from where the shanks reconnect to the remaining 1/4. I don't like it and am going to have those removed so it's just a half eternity I think. Me lady is pretty rough on jewelry so I don't need a bunch of stones under her finger that no one can see and she'll just chip

Also planning on getting some engraving or something on the sides of the bands that don't have any at present. I'd like to finish the antique look and don't think it's complete if those sides are bare. What do you think?

 

[Niel]

I think e graving would be pretty. Though I don't think it needs it. But it would look a lot like this when its finished I imagine. Also, what metal will the shank be?

 

[Jumpin_Jacks]

Agree with Niel that the engraving is not a must have. Really liking this version over the first!! Will the top halo melee match the size of the side? I think it would be kinda cute if the melee was slightly smaller on the sides than top view?

 

[momma2boys]

Beautiful ring and I love the new CADs! Like others have said, it's not a must, but I do think engraving would definitely add a lovely quality to the ring - if you think she'd want that, of course!

Congrats!

 

[nowicanseethemoon]

Oh yes. This is lovely and will be much more delicate in real life. I can't wait to see it. The little changes you had made make a huge difference.

 

[chrono]

Much nicer and I agree that going to 1/2 eternity keeps it looking clean. I think adding engraving will add more clutter to the clean lines it now shows.

 

[SB621]

CADs look very bulky so as I said before the ring will look much more delicate in RL. I wouldn't add the engraving and would keep the diamonds at 3/4. Rings tend to spin and it drives me batty to see the plain shank when it happens. I think the 3/4's eternity keeps the look consistent.

 

[chrono]

CADs look very bulky so as I said before the ring will look much more delicate in RL. I wouldn't add the engraving and would keep the diamonds at 3/4. Rings tend to spin and it drives me batty to see the plain shank when it happens. I think the 3/4's eternity keeps the look consistent.

SB,
I keep reading about rings spinning and showing the plain shank but I don't seem to experience this with my two 1/2 eternity rings and you know I am very particular about how rings look.

 

[SB621]

CADs look very bulky so as I said before the ring will look much more delicate in RL. I wouldn't add the engraving and would keep the diamonds at 3/4. Rings tend to spin and it drives me batty to see the plain shank when it happens. I think the 3/4's eternity keeps the look consistent.

SB,
I keep reading about rings spinning and showing the plain shank but I don't seem to experience this with my two 1/2 eternity rings and you know I am very particular about how rings look.

You probably have pretty knuckles! If you have big knuckles but your actual finger size is smaller, like me, then spinning is more prevelant. It is such a pet peeve on mine and I would give anything to have pretty fingers where spinning wouldn't happen.

So OP I would be on the safer side and do 3/4's but obviously others done care or don't have the issue.

 

[chrono]

You probably have pretty knuckles! If you have big knuckles but your actual finger size is smaller, like me, then spinning is more prevelant. It is such a pet peeve on mine and I would give anything to have pretty fingers where spinning wouldn't happen. So OP I would be on the safer side and do 3/4's but obviously others done care or don't have the issue.

I wish I have pretty knuckles but they are all wrinkly and weathered. All right, I understand that it all depends on the knuckle size relative to the rest of the finger which cause rings to spin for some people.

 

[Christina...]

This is my take on spinning. I don't have pretty fingers but my knuckles aren't larger than the base either. My engagement ring is half eternity and it spins constantly (though its a tad big as well) but the head of my stone stops the spinning when it touches the adjacent finger, if that makes sense, and therefore I don't really ever see anything but diamonds when it spins. BUT, my 3/4 eternity is a different story. I settled with 3/4 thinking that it would resolve both the spinning issue and the risk of chipping stones in a full eternity. I didn't consider that the band sans a head would have nothing to prevent it from spinning 360 degrees, so I often look down and see metal showing and diamonds across the BACK of my finger...exactly where I didn't want them. Again though the ring is a bit big to allow me to wear it on both hands so perhaps a well fitted shank would prevent this.

 

[msop04]

FieryBrilliance, I love love LOVE the new CAD!!! Looks so great -- can't wait to see the finished product!!

 

[msop04]

CADs look very bulky so as I said before the ring will look much more delicate in RL. I wouldn't add the engraving and would keep the diamonds at 3/4. Rings tend to spin and it drives me batty to see the plain shank when it happens. I think the 3/4's eternity keeps the look consistent.

I agree with SB... My ering is 1/2 eternity (due to the melee design on the band coming to a point), but I wish I'd gone ahead and had it done 3/4 somehow. It makes me crazy when it spins to the side and I see shiny metal all of a sudden. UGH!! Oh well, no biggie... As with most things , there's almost always a "coulda/woulda/shoulda" in the back of our minds. The grass is always greener... and tastes change.

Ahhhhh... Such is life.

 

[FieryBrilliance]

Thank you all for your feedback! I appreciate the opinions!

I think that I'm going to shy away from adding any engraving to the band because as many pointed out from the original post, there's quite a lot going on already. I think engraving might be overkill.

I also agree that 3/4 eternity vs. 1/2 eternity is probably a good idea, so I asked Chris if it would be possible to continue the double pave to 3/4, which he did and turned around almost immediately (image below). I don't know how many CAD back-and-forths is common, but in this instance it only took 3 tries and I requested a resin sample based on the feedback I received. I really love the final product! Thank you to all who provided feedback!

 

[jess719]

Oh, I just love it!! What a beautiful design!!

 

[Niel]

Beautiful. It seems like the natural sopping point foe those diamonds so I get it.


I have one thing I might suggest looking into. If you're doing the ring with the base in white gold, have you considered unplated 14k white gold? I think leaving off the rhodium would make the metals match better. Give it a very vintage feel, where I think the rhodium will make it feel a bit girly. Plus, you can always add it later if you don't like it. It'll still be white metal, just, again, look a bit more creamy less stark white, which I think might flatter the rose gold better. I have a trinity with rose gold and unplated WG and they are extremely flattering. Just a thought.

 

[SB621]

Beautiful. It seems like the natural sopping point foe those diamonds so I get it.


I have one thing I might suggest looking into. If you're doing the ring with the base in white gold, have you considered unplated 14k white gold? I think leaving off the rhodium would make the metals match better. Give it a very vintage feel, where I think the rhodium will make it feel a bit girly. Plus, you can always add it later if you don't like it. It'll still be white metal, just, again, look a bit more creamy less stark white, which I think might flatter the rose gold better. I have a trinity with rose gold and unplated WG and they are extremely flattering. Just a thought.

I get what you are saying but I think with the halo being 14k RG the contrast would be better with regular plated 14k WG. If he were going to do the entire ring in WG then I think unplated might be more interesting. But with the current design I think the contrast gives it that vintage feel.

 

[Niel]

Beautiful. It seems like the natural sopping point foe those diamonds so I get it.


I have one thing I might suggest looking into. If you're doing the ring with the base in white gold, have you considered unplated 14k white gold? I think leaving off the rhodium would make the metals match better. Give it a very vintage feel, where I think the rhodium will make it feel a bit girly. Plus, you can always add it later if you don't like it. It'll still be white metal, just, again, look a bit more creamy less stark white, which I think might flatter the rose gold better. I have a trinity with rose gold and unplated WG and they are extremely flattering. Just a thought.

I get what you are saying but I think with the halo being 14k RG the contrast would be better with regular plated 14k WG. If he were going to do the entire ring in WG then I think unplated might be more interesting. But with the current design I think the contrast gives it that vintage feel.

I guess a lot of it is personal preference, but I think plated WG and rg gives it a less expensive look, for some reason. But again it comes down to personal preference, it was just something to consider.

 

[FieryBrilliance]

Beautiful. It seems like the natural sopping point foe those diamonds so I get it.


I have one thing I might suggest looking into. If you're doing the ring with the base in white gold, have you considered unplated 14k white gold? I think leaving off the rhodium would make the metals match better. Give it a very vintage feel, where I think the rhodium will make it feel a bit girly. Plus, you can always add it later if you don't like it. It'll still be white metal, just, again, look a bit more creamy less stark white, which I think might flatter the rose gold better. I have a trinity with rose gold and unplated WG and they are extremely flattering. Just a thought.

I get what you are saying but I think with the halo being 14k RG the contrast would be better with regular plated 14k WG. If he were going to do the entire ring in WG then I think unplated might be more interesting. But with the current design I think the contrast gives it that vintage feel.

I guess a lot of it is personal preference, but I think plated WG and rg gives it a less expensive look, for some reason. But again it comes down to personal preference, it was just something to consider.

Thanks to both of you for your insight. The base of the ring is going to be platinum though, not white gold. What do you think about that?

 

[Niel]

Oh OK

Never mind plat will be beautiful

 

[FieryBrilliance]

Hi All,

I'm in the final stages of planning here - resin cast has been created. It's exciting!

Just one more question i have around the CADs. Chris has stated that typically they prefer to keep the pave on the shanks but not on the profile or on the basket to keep things a little more simple and elegant. In the image below, you'll see that they've added pave to two of the pieces beneath the gallery, at my request. My question is: should I get rid of the diamonds there to keep uniformity so that when looking at any part of the platinum from behind or in front of the ring, it's the same consistency and then let the pave & more ornate elements of the setting be exclusively from a top down or side view?

Keep in mind, my girlfriend likes the antique look.

 

[SB621]

They are called struts and yes I would keep it especially if she likes the antique look.

I hope you don't mind but I'm posting a photo of my old diamond halo with diamonds on the struts. I think it really completes the ring and makes it more uniform. I'm not a fan when you put diamonds on the top and sides but don't "complete" it by adding to the struts and /or basket as well. Keeping the diamonds just seems much more fluid to me. If you remove them the design leans more towards the modern. Just my .02.

 

[FieryBrilliance]

They are called struts and yes I would keep it especially if she likes the antique look.

I hope you don't mind but I'm posting a photo of my old diamond halo with diamonds on the struts. I think it really completes the ring and makes it more uniform. I'm not a fan when you put diamonds on the top and sides but don't "complete" it by adding to the struts and /or basket as well. Keeping the diamonds just seems much more fluid to me. If you remove them the design leans more towards the modern. Just my .02.

Thanks SB621! I don't mind you posting your old halo at all - it's very lovely. I agree with you for a setting like yours because it's got nice, clean lines and not a whole lot of metal -- unlike the setting I'm getting that many PSers have said is "too busy" and has a lot going on. With yours, the struts having pave on them keeps things consistent and flowing naturally, but on mine I worry about the fact that only 2 of the struts on either side feature pave, while the parts of the band that flows up to the halo on the left & right side of the struts do not. That almost looks a bit weird to me and I wonder if eliminating it entirely would make more a more fluid look. Initially, I asked Chris to add pave to the bands on left & right side of struts just above the band so that any piece of metal above the finger had pave, but in his reply, he stated that he didn't think it would enhance the look much and that ERD prefers pave on the shank but no diamonds on the profile or under the gallery, which has me second guessing my request to add stones to the 2 struts to begin with...

Thoughts?

 

[SB621]

As stated I would keep it. I think it looks unfinished without it, but with that said this is your ring.

 

[FieryBrilliance]

Hi All -

Thanks so much for your feedback throughout this process. The information that I've found on PS has been invaluable to me and helped me find Chris & ERD who has made this process even more amazing - some of the best customer service i've ever received in my entire life from him.

Here's the video of the finished product that he sent me. I'm very excited about it and plan to pop the Q next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WjTpWB_REs

Thanks again for all of your help!