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Hi All,
I posted a little while back about a chrysoberyl I sent to DanielM to be set into their Sweet Sadie ring. When I got my ring from them and put it on, there was a huge window staring back at me--being relatively inexperienced in custom settings, I didn't realize that to close the window (my stone has a medium-ish one) there needs to be metal behind the stone. Pics and more details can be found in the older thread:
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/i-miss-my-chrysoberyl-for-the-next-month-or-so.170719/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/i-miss-my-chrysoberyl-for-the-next-month-or-so.170719/[/URL]
Luckily for me, Caren and Dan of DanielM were awesome, said that they wanted me to be completely happy with my new ring, and that I could ship it back so they can see what can be done. I shipped it back the next day, and wrote them some ideas of how I thought it could be fixed (by putting metal between my finger and the stone, pretty much). For a reasonable labor fee, they covered the back of the bezel in 18K gold (the bezel is 18K, the shank is silver), removed the original shank and replaced it with a thicker shank of a slightly smaller size. Now the ring is back with me, and I love it.
In the future, I probably wouldn't set a chrysoberyl in 18K yellow gold again. I think the silver would have provided a nice contrast without interfering either with the yellow or the green hues of the stone. And it would have been *much* cheaper, obviously. The only element of this ring that needs to be made of gold is the "window patch," since I wouldn't want it to tarnish and make the window nice and black.
Well, enough rambling. Here are pics of the completed and improved ring.
Cheers!
- Anya
I posted a little while back about a chrysoberyl I sent to DanielM to be set into their Sweet Sadie ring. When I got my ring from them and put it on, there was a huge window staring back at me--being relatively inexperienced in custom settings, I didn't realize that to close the window (my stone has a medium-ish one) there needs to be metal behind the stone. Pics and more details can be found in the older thread:
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/i-miss-my-chrysoberyl-for-the-next-month-or-so.170719/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/i-miss-my-chrysoberyl-for-the-next-month-or-so.170719/[/URL]
Luckily for me, Caren and Dan of DanielM were awesome, said that they wanted me to be completely happy with my new ring, and that I could ship it back so they can see what can be done. I shipped it back the next day, and wrote them some ideas of how I thought it could be fixed (by putting metal between my finger and the stone, pretty much). For a reasonable labor fee, they covered the back of the bezel in 18K gold (the bezel is 18K, the shank is silver), removed the original shank and replaced it with a thicker shank of a slightly smaller size. Now the ring is back with me, and I love it.
In the future, I probably wouldn't set a chrysoberyl in 18K yellow gold again. I think the silver would have provided a nice contrast without interfering either with the yellow or the green hues of the stone. And it would have been *much* cheaper, obviously. The only element of this ring that needs to be made of gold is the "window patch," since I wouldn't want it to tarnish and make the window nice and black.
Well, enough rambling. Here are pics of the completed and improved ring.
Cheers!
- Anya
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