sylvesterii
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2002
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Well,
since my wedding is now coming up in OH MY GOD, 14 days....
Time for my ring.
Wink @ Winfields {http://www.winkjones.com) *shameless plug, shameless plug*
is once again undertaking the amazing job. I am attaching a basic mock-up of what the ring is going to look like, very poorly photoshopped i might add. I really liked the look of the trent west trew tungsten design, but really really wanted my own little EightStar to match Valerie''s. Since Trent West does not place custom stones in rings, and I wasn''t too keen on tungsten carbide anyway, i am having a custom piece made from platinum. As it turns out, EightStar does not normally cut diamonds as small as i was looking, (.20 or so). However, they have a batch of "new recruits" who they train on smaller stones, so one may come up some day, and i will have to swap out the .24 H&A that will be in the ring right now. for the life of me, i have misplaced the stats on the diamond that will be in the ring (please feel free to shoot evil glares at me.) Anyway, this diamond will eventually end up in a really cool tie tack that i have in mind....
Back to the ring. It is a 7mm band, with the diamond in the center, and two great sapphires on each side. The diamond is bezel set in the ring, and the two sapphires will be (i think it is called) hammer set. they are 2.5 mm each, and are "deep blue" diamond cut sapphires. It should be under way right now, and I can''t wait!!
We have valerie''s wedding ring in hand already. It is a DVatche "truffle" ring with 5 .9 E/F VS quality. Hey, I should take a picture! I''ll add that later tonight. For those of you who worry about gap, ah well. it looks so great, who cares about a gap???
And of course, the pre-wedding gift that she has no idea about...a ~1 carat pair of sapphire earrings, set it "martini" prong settings. She has no idea that I am lining them up, but as far as i know, she doesn''t have anything "blue" for the wedding yet. Since the wedding band was so perfect, I had to downgrade on the quality of the sapphires a bit, but hopefully Wink can pull through for me!!! There are always more chances to buy more jewelry (really eyeing a pair of Richard Homer Sapphire earrings like Colered Gemstone Nut''s, but know that is about 20 years down the road!!). It is a good thing that I found a wife who loves jewelry as much as I do, because I can''t wear all the good stuff, being too normalized into society, in a sociological sense. Heck, I feel like I am breaking the rules w/ my .24 diamond, but I guess I should just talk with that guy who bought himself a 3+ carat diamond.
since my wedding is now coming up in OH MY GOD, 14 days....
Time for my ring.
Wink @ Winfields {http://www.winkjones.com) *shameless plug, shameless plug*
is once again undertaking the amazing job. I am attaching a basic mock-up of what the ring is going to look like, very poorly photoshopped i might add. I really liked the look of the trent west trew tungsten design, but really really wanted my own little EightStar to match Valerie''s. Since Trent West does not place custom stones in rings, and I wasn''t too keen on tungsten carbide anyway, i am having a custom piece made from platinum. As it turns out, EightStar does not normally cut diamonds as small as i was looking, (.20 or so). However, they have a batch of "new recruits" who they train on smaller stones, so one may come up some day, and i will have to swap out the .24 H&A that will be in the ring right now. for the life of me, i have misplaced the stats on the diamond that will be in the ring (please feel free to shoot evil glares at me.) Anyway, this diamond will eventually end up in a really cool tie tack that i have in mind....
Back to the ring. It is a 7mm band, with the diamond in the center, and two great sapphires on each side. The diamond is bezel set in the ring, and the two sapphires will be (i think it is called) hammer set. they are 2.5 mm each, and are "deep blue" diamond cut sapphires. It should be under way right now, and I can''t wait!!
We have valerie''s wedding ring in hand already. It is a DVatche "truffle" ring with 5 .9 E/F VS quality. Hey, I should take a picture! I''ll add that later tonight. For those of you who worry about gap, ah well. it looks so great, who cares about a gap???
And of course, the pre-wedding gift that she has no idea about...a ~1 carat pair of sapphire earrings, set it "martini" prong settings. She has no idea that I am lining them up, but as far as i know, she doesn''t have anything "blue" for the wedding yet. Since the wedding band was so perfect, I had to downgrade on the quality of the sapphires a bit, but hopefully Wink can pull through for me!!! There are always more chances to buy more jewelry (really eyeing a pair of Richard Homer Sapphire earrings like Colered Gemstone Nut''s, but know that is about 20 years down the road!!). It is a good thing that I found a wife who loves jewelry as much as I do, because I can''t wear all the good stuff, being too normalized into society, in a sociological sense. Heck, I feel like I am breaking the rules w/ my .24 diamond, but I guess I should just talk with that guy who bought himself a 3+ carat diamond.
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