Concerns about my setting (again) !

[bgray]

Date: 11/14/2009 2:17:26 PM
Author: frankiextah
thankyou but it won''t be an option for me to keep it as is.

I understand your need to change it but personally the options posted are worse in my opinion--visually and optically. The hearts make it look like one big oddly shaped stone and the two rounds is very generic-classic but not heartstopping. If you must change how about baguettes or no side stones--just a solitaire?

check out www.mc2jewels.com for some unusual options.

 

[frankiextah]

Date: 11/14/2009 2:52:54 PM
Author: bgray

Date: 11/14/2009 2:17:26 PM

Author: frankiextah

thankyou but it won''t be an option for me to keep it as is.

I understand your need to change it but personally the options posted are worse in my opinion--visually and optically. The hearts make it look like one big oddly shaped stone and the two rounds is very generic-classic but not heartstopping. If you must change how about baguettes or no side stones--just a solitaire?


check out www.mc2jewels.com for some unusual options.

thankyou, and i know about this site as well but those designs won''t work with my wedding band at all.

 

[frankiextah]

Date: 11/14/2009 2:41:10 PM
Author: rockabee

Date: 11/14/2009 1:21:53 PM

Author: frankiextah

a this point, i will have to change both my setting and side stones... now it''s the matter of what to change into... any preference between the 2 options? thanks!!

my vote is for the three round combo. the reason again is optics. if you didn''t like the round + pears because they look too ''marquis'' then I feel like the round + hearts has the same issue. sort of looks like a short marquis and somewhat like an eye as well. also, i feel like the hearts sort of combine with the center to give the appearance of ''tacking'' stones on to make the center look bigger and it also obfuscates the profile of your beautifiul center stone somewhat. but i can definitely understand the appeal saying you have two ''heart'' sidestones.


with the 3 rounds, i feel the sidestones are more separate and distinct. so you definitely do not get the optics of an ''eye'' shape, nor does it meld into the center stone as much. plus, it looks great with the eternity rounds.

thankyou so much for your opinion! right now i am also leaning towards the 3 rounds... i showed the photos to DF and very surprisingly he is really liking the hearts?! hmm!!

 

[waterlilly]

side question: are you a hand model? geeez, perfect hands!

my vote is either smaller pear sides or just solitaire. I think the center stone is beautiful enough to stand on it's own or to be "flattered" by different shaped stones, not distracted by mirror stones - does that even make sense?

I love love love the look trap. or pear sides bring to a rb solitaire - causes it to look like a blended stone. either you like that or you don't, but that is the effect they have.

love your current ring, sorry it isn't workign out - it is stunning!

 

[MissGotRocks]

I have to agree with some of the other posters that the heart sides just blend right into the round center and make it look like an odd ball shape. I do like the round sidestones (providing that the new mounting will look pretty much like that) and particularly like the look of the round sidestones with your wedding band.

In the end though, it is your ring and you''re the one that needs to be happy with it everyday. What are you thinking looks best at this point?

 

[decodelighted]

The hearts just create that same "fat marquise" shape you were trying to AVOID. Also, I just don''t prefer heart-shaped stones on *adult* women.

The three rounds is okay. What YOU like is the important thing.

 

[Luckyeshe]

I like your ring as well, but if it''s not comfortable, is it possible for you to just change the setting? And potentially keep your side stones? I love the look of your ring though!

 

[Gleam]

Interesting that you want to change your setting, as I feel it''s just about perfect! I only recently received my RB solitaire, but I someday plan to add pear side stones, much like your current setting. i think pears + RB is the most aesthetically pleasing combination. I can see how the knife-edge would be uncomfortable.

You seem hell-bent on changing the entire thing. However, I personally can''t get behind the idea of other rounds. It''s hard to find exactly the right round stones, proportion-wise, without making a ring look (to me, at least) like one of those "three-stone rings" for past-present-future, blah blah. I just personally feel those are a little played out thanks to DeBeer''s marketing. My humble opinion only. The three-stone ring with RBs here, however, was exactly right. As that poster noted, it forms an "eye" shape. Your current setting is truly stunning. I guess we can''t change your mind for you, however.

 

[frankiextah]

this is a prototype of the 3-round setting flushed with my wedding band... the side stones look a little wonky as they are only tacked onto the band, not set...

 

[frankiextah]

Date: 11/14/2009 6:04:14 PM
Author: waterlilly
side question: are you a hand model? geeez, perfect hands!


my vote is either smaller pear sides or just solitaire. I think the center stone is beautiful enough to stand on it's own or to be 'flattered' by different shaped stones, not distracted by mirror stones - does that even make sense?


I love love love the look trap. or pear sides bring to a rb solitaire - causes it to look like a blended stone. either you like that or you don't, but that is the effect they have.


love your current ring, sorry it isn't workign out - it is stunning!

haha! i wish i were a hand model so that i could earn some extra cash for more bling!

eventually i would be wearing the wedding band with my engagement ring. would the photo above change your thinking? i love the look of pear sides too, but with the pears already being super tiny (0.30ct each), it's really hard to bring them down even smaller and still stay decently sparkly... that's why i began looking at round sidestones at 0.25ct each, since they can stay super sparkly at smaller sizes...

initially my DF thought he really liked he heart sidestones, but after seening the photo of the round sides flushed with the wedding band he changed his mind and is now liking the round sides more...

 

[Amethyste]

I think the OP has made her mind to change her setting - doesnt matter how much we say to her that we like it as is...

Maybe you could try with moon sides - that would give a nice look and avoid the "points" as the end of the sidestones...

 

[anyname]

There was a woman here who had a BEAUTIFUL round and heart side stone ring.

EDIT: i found the link

the only thing is that it's still going to look like a pear from certain angles, but that's just the nature of the heart cut, a pear with a notch on top. It's still beautiful though.

 

[yssie]

Don't know if you're wanting to get a big look "size"-wise, but I will say that the small sidestone rounds make my centre look smaller than it would look as a solitaire.

The sparkle 'blends' E/W, and you can't appreciably delineate the centre, and so while you get more finger coverage there's no BIG STONE drama, even if you've actually got a sizable stone.


Just something else to consider.

 

[frankiextah]

Date: 11/15/2009 1:16:58 AM
Author: Gleam
Interesting that you want to change your setting, as I feel it''s just about perfect! I only recently received my RB solitaire, but I someday plan to add pear side stones, much like your current setting. i think pears + RB is the most aesthetically pleasing combination. I can see how the knife-edge would be uncomfortable.


You seem hell-bent on changing the entire thing. However, I personally can''t get behind the idea of other rounds. It''s hard to find exactly the right round stones, proportion-wise, without making a ring look (to me, at least) like one of those ''three-stone rings'' for past-present-future, blah blah. I just personally feel those are a little played out thanks to DeBeer''s marketing. My humble opinion only. The three-stone ring with RBs here, however, was exactly right. As that poster noted, it forms an ''eye'' shape. Your current setting is truly stunning. I guess we can''t change your mind for you, however.

thankyou for your opinion! i''m leaning towards the rounds as of now. thankyou for your detailed analysus, i really appreciate it!

would love to have more opinions before i go to the store again this saturday!

 

[Gleam]

Date: 11/17/2009 12:13:05 PM
Author: frankiextah


thankyou for your opinion! i'm leaning towards the rounds as of now. thankyou for your detailed analysus, i really appreciate it!


would love to have more opinions before i go to the store again this saturday!

No problem, frankiextah. I think the side stones you chose in the prototype are actually very nice, a good proportion relative to the center stone. Let us know how you like the new setting.

Are you trading in your pear side stones or keeping them? Send them to me!

 

[frankiextah]

Date: 11/17/2009 12:28:23 PM
Author: Gleam

Date: 11/17/2009 12:13:05 PM

Author: frankiextah



thankyou for your opinion! i''m leaning towards the rounds as of now. thankyou for your detailed analysus, i really appreciate it!



would love to have more opinions before i go to the store again this saturday!

No problem, frankiextah. I think the side stones you chose in the prototype are actually very nice, a good proportion relative to the center stone. Let us know how you like the new setting.


Are you trading in your pear side stones or keeping them? Send them to me!

oh hahaha!! i wish i could trade them in, but the stones came with my setting hence there are no certs for these babies. but i would have wanted to keep them anyways as i love them! i would either make them into studs, or turn them into 2 tiny pendants and wear them layered over my other delicate necklaces...

This saturday i will go back to my uncle''s company and have them pull out a few more sizes - 0.20, 0.23 and the original 0.25, since the center stone of the 0.49ctw prototype right now is a 1.78ct (a smidge larger than my 1.72).

of course, i will report back with photos !! i am going to really exhaust the staff there!

i will also go in and see if they have a solitaire set on a single row pave eternity band....

 

[ms.halo]

Frankie, go for the three rounds. Your biggest complaint about the pears in the fact that it makes your ring look marquis shape and the hearts do the exact same thing, just chunkier. I think you'll be happier with the rounds. I really like the idea of turning the pears into two small pendants.

LOVELY wedding band!

 

[CharmyPoo]

Another vote for keeping your original ring! It is lovely and I like it better than the other options.