Your ring is amazing! I’m leaning towards the angled look like yours. Who made your ring? Your prongs are so subtle. I’m not a fan of a heavy prong look that you typically see in a 3 stone.
Yeah, neither was I! Especially with a small finger, I knew I didn’t want big blunt prongs.
The ring was done by Joe Escobar diamonds, a local multi-generational family place, and all I’ve got for info on the setting is a 6 digit item number on my paperwork that doesn’t match anything on Stuller’s site, which is where I’d have assumed it was from, because it was not on the JE website and it was definitely not custom (the stamping, if there ever was any, got lost in the resizing). To me, it looks like a very standard basket setting. They just had it in stock already and brought it out to me.
The baskets for the side stones were actually a millimeter too large, since I wanted slightly smaller side stones, and I was worried they might end up looking almost bezel set, but I didn’t want to go full custom (like you, I live in fear of CADs!). They reworked them just a touch by scooching the top and bottom of the basket girdle closer together by about half a millimeter so it didn’t show all the way around the stone, and the metal is just visible along the band line at the inner and outer edges of the side stones (you can see this if you zoom in on the angled shot). Waiting to see what they did with that was enough “customization” drama for me! I prefer stock everything because then I can see exactly what it’s like before I decide.
The mounting (most mountings) comes with long “raw” prongs before it‘s set, so you should be able to tell them how you want them shaped (within reason). I asked for as sharp of claw prongs as they felt were appropriate for the stone size and facet pattern, and they really delivered.
I actually got a fake sterling replica* on Etsy and it’s almost identical, except the side stones are a tiny bit higher and the prongs are blunt, and the prongs really make a difference, you’re right. Definitely don’t be afraid to request the prong finishing you want, and give them pictures if you need to.
If you go search Stuller’s website you can see a ton of three stone rings that are set further apart than the standard without having to go the route of ornate vintage Edwardian style If that’s not your thing.
*when he saw how convincing the replica was, which I had intended for travel, my husband said “we could have saved a whole lot of money on this endeavor” LOL.