Gypsy
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Went to a local SMALL B&M on a whim-- I''ve bought things from there before... inexpensive things, chains and such. They''ve always been very helpful and have a good local reputation. And I knew they had a decent display of ''standard'' settings and after the discussions the last few days I wanted to check out a few things. ( I wear a 6 BTW)
AND I found a setting I really REALLY like. Might even love. I couldn''t take it off my finger. Kept putting it back on.
Here''s the deal. It''s a Richard Landi setting. It''s a tapered split shank with micro pave on each of the thin shanks one sided without millgrain. It''s made for a round and it has a ... basket?? A round paved ( light milgrain edged) NECK and four thick (didn''t love this part) prongs.
I picked it up because it was a really beautiful split shank and I wanted to try on split shanks... well, the jeweler was this nice man who broke out a 6 x 6 princess for me to see held over each of the settings I was looking at. Except when he went to hold it over this one... it fell in and settled between the prongs like a diamond shape <>. And it just was perfect. I have seen asschers mounted this way in magazines and liked the look... and it clicked perfectly for me with this split shank setting.
THe jeweler said he could mount my asscher this way in the setting AS IT IS with the four prongs holding the straight long sides on the diamond and not the corners.
SO... here is my first question. Will this be safe? Because I LOVE the look of it. And so did DF.
Second... anyone know what prices for Landri settings shoud run? The jeweler was SHOCKED when he looked at the tag-- apparently he doesn''t have any other Landi settings in the store (or any other designer that I saw) and didn''t even remember this setting was one so the nearly 6K price tag had him saying, "This is a mistake... I mean it''s a good price for the setting-- if I put a 1 carat diamond in it for you." But he looked it up and his price was almost 3K-- it''s platinum. But I don''t know this designer and I don''t know if this is a fair price... or a high price since he only has the one Landi in.
http://www.richardlandi.com is the site... but I can''t seem to pull the blasted thing up to look for the ring and see if it''s on there.
AND I found a setting I really REALLY like. Might even love. I couldn''t take it off my finger. Kept putting it back on.
Here''s the deal. It''s a Richard Landi setting. It''s a tapered split shank with micro pave on each of the thin shanks one sided without millgrain. It''s made for a round and it has a ... basket?? A round paved ( light milgrain edged) NECK and four thick (didn''t love this part) prongs.
I picked it up because it was a really beautiful split shank and I wanted to try on split shanks... well, the jeweler was this nice man who broke out a 6 x 6 princess for me to see held over each of the settings I was looking at. Except when he went to hold it over this one... it fell in and settled between the prongs like a diamond shape <>. And it just was perfect. I have seen asschers mounted this way in magazines and liked the look... and it clicked perfectly for me with this split shank setting.
THe jeweler said he could mount my asscher this way in the setting AS IT IS with the four prongs holding the straight long sides on the diamond and not the corners.
SO... here is my first question. Will this be safe? Because I LOVE the look of it. And so did DF.
Second... anyone know what prices for Landri settings shoud run? The jeweler was SHOCKED when he looked at the tag-- apparently he doesn''t have any other Landi settings in the store (or any other designer that I saw) and didn''t even remember this setting was one so the nearly 6K price tag had him saying, "This is a mistake... I mean it''s a good price for the setting-- if I put a 1 carat diamond in it for you." But he looked it up and his price was almost 3K-- it''s platinum. But I don''t know this designer and I don''t know if this is a fair price... or a high price since he only has the one Landi in.
http://www.richardlandi.com is the site... but I can''t seem to pull the blasted thing up to look for the ring and see if it''s on there.
