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Rough_Rock
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OK fellow PS’ers, I need some help! I’ve been looking at photos and reading your advice for several weeks now, mornings, evenings, late nights… Until I’m blue in the face!!!
I’m looking for an eternity band or 5-stone ring for my fiancée; she has long elegant fingers and wears a size 5 ring on her left hand. This is great, except, many of the rings I’m interested in have diamonds that would require a setting too large for her finger. I started looking at full eternity bands (or 90% with sizing bar) but in 40 points those are somewhat pricey. I then thought a really nice 5-stone would fit the bill, slightly larger stones could still fit within the budget. This will be the only ring she wears (unless she adds very small wedding bands on either side, like zestfullybling did, her look is beautiful), so I want it to be “nice” but a bit conservative too. My intended and I dated in college, 30 years ago, and just "re-met" a few years ago. For 30 years I thought of her as "the one that got away", now it seems I'll be able to rectify the situation! So, we are "older" and I'm looking for a ring where people say, “Oh, that’s a nice ring” and before they finish the sentence they are thinking to themselves, “Whoa, that’s a Really nice ring.” Whether or not I go with ACA or “H&A diamonds, or something similar, at the least I’ll be looking at VS2 or SI1, E color, and either GIA 3X or AGS 000. And HCA around 2, if I don’t get IdealScope and ASAT images.
My problem:
many of the posts I read suggest 30 points for a size 5 ring is about the max, unless one doesn’t mind the diamonds “hanging over the side”. Which I don’t want – I’m looking for something spectacular… that also looks like it was made for her particular finger. Price is of some concern, but it seems I might be able to afford more than what would look good on her. OK, let’s see if I can save a few thousand words with some photos.
Here are three showing the size five finger in question:
Here is a graduated ring that I like from the top (as a complete aside: this must be aesthetically one of the best PS photos ever, although there are some other mighty good ones to view); if memory serves it is a size 6.5 and the stones are .56, .41, and .33. Something that “could” work in a size 5; on the other hand it seems like it is kind of maxed out with the size 6.5 ring:
Here is a photo of Demelza’s Shasha Primak 2.56 tcw 5-stone that got me interested in “all of this” to begin with:
I like how each diamond is separate from its neighbor; from the top view the diamonds just seem to hang there. Also, each diamond seems to look a bit larger (to me), since the prongs are close together there is more diamond to “overhang”. I've looked everywhere but cannot find what size this ring is. Seems five 50 pointers might be too much for a size 5 ring.
I'll try and close; here is an example of what I don't think my fiancee will like (but I think this ring is spectacular); a larger center stone with two quite smaller side stones, hawaiianrosetree's five stone 1.0 .40 .20 trellis in size 4. She made this work fabulously, by "placing" the two side stones "under" the center stone. However, my fiancee wants something that hugs her finger; one reason we aren't looking at solitaires...
Here is another of the more spectacular 5-stone rings I've seen on PS, eXistentia's 1.0 .55 .50 rose gold setting seems to really showcase the five "white" diamonds. I think this is one step "blingier" than what my fiancee would wear, plus this setting looks great in size 7-3/4 but I'm afraid in size 5 we would be out of luck. But, maybe the .60 .40 .30 sizing that I'm attached to would work...
Last photo; left to my own devices, if I had to choose right now, I'd choose a setting something like the BGD "Sally" but with a trellis setting and probably leaving out the side accent diamonds, using a .60 center stone with .40 and .30 side stones - and hope it doesn't "overhang" too much in a size 5 setting. I do think with a small finger and graduated stones the knife edge (though perhaps uncomfortable) might continue the graduated look from diamonds to setting - I just really like this view of this setting!
OK, I lied, here is a fabulous example of a simple trellis design: katiedid's 5-stone trellis in size 5 with 30 point stones. But I'm wanting a 60 point stone and two 40 point stones (and then two 30 point stones), if possible. Regardless, this is a great example of a setting showcasing instead of competing with the diamonds.
Thank you in advance for your help and wise council. If this long first (nearly) post doesn't get me banned from the forum, maybe nothing will.
If I don't gain some level of comfort I think I'll just have to whisk my girl off to either Houston or NYC and try several rings on and see what looks good on her finger.
Thanks again!
I’m looking for an eternity band or 5-stone ring for my fiancée; she has long elegant fingers and wears a size 5 ring on her left hand. This is great, except, many of the rings I’m interested in have diamonds that would require a setting too large for her finger. I started looking at full eternity bands (or 90% with sizing bar) but in 40 points those are somewhat pricey. I then thought a really nice 5-stone would fit the bill, slightly larger stones could still fit within the budget. This will be the only ring she wears (unless she adds very small wedding bands on either side, like zestfullybling did, her look is beautiful), so I want it to be “nice” but a bit conservative too. My intended and I dated in college, 30 years ago, and just "re-met" a few years ago. For 30 years I thought of her as "the one that got away", now it seems I'll be able to rectify the situation! So, we are "older" and I'm looking for a ring where people say, “Oh, that’s a nice ring” and before they finish the sentence they are thinking to themselves, “Whoa, that’s a Really nice ring.” Whether or not I go with ACA or “H&A diamonds, or something similar, at the least I’ll be looking at VS2 or SI1, E color, and either GIA 3X or AGS 000. And HCA around 2, if I don’t get IdealScope and ASAT images.
My problem:
many of the posts I read suggest 30 points for a size 5 ring is about the max, unless one doesn’t mind the diamonds “hanging over the side”. Which I don’t want – I’m looking for something spectacular… that also looks like it was made for her particular finger. Price is of some concern, but it seems I might be able to afford more than what would look good on her. OK, let’s see if I can save a few thousand words with some photos.
Here are three showing the size five finger in question:
Here is a graduated ring that I like from the top (as a complete aside: this must be aesthetically one of the best PS photos ever, although there are some other mighty good ones to view); if memory serves it is a size 6.5 and the stones are .56, .41, and .33. Something that “could” work in a size 5; on the other hand it seems like it is kind of maxed out with the size 6.5 ring:
Here is a photo of Demelza’s Shasha Primak 2.56 tcw 5-stone that got me interested in “all of this” to begin with:
I like how each diamond is separate from its neighbor; from the top view the diamonds just seem to hang there. Also, each diamond seems to look a bit larger (to me), since the prongs are close together there is more diamond to “overhang”. I've looked everywhere but cannot find what size this ring is. Seems five 50 pointers might be too much for a size 5 ring.
I'll try and close; here is an example of what I don't think my fiancee will like (but I think this ring is spectacular); a larger center stone with two quite smaller side stones, hawaiianrosetree's five stone 1.0 .40 .20 trellis in size 4. She made this work fabulously, by "placing" the two side stones "under" the center stone. However, my fiancee wants something that hugs her finger; one reason we aren't looking at solitaires...
Here is another of the more spectacular 5-stone rings I've seen on PS, eXistentia's 1.0 .55 .50 rose gold setting seems to really showcase the five "white" diamonds. I think this is one step "blingier" than what my fiancee would wear, plus this setting looks great in size 7-3/4 but I'm afraid in size 5 we would be out of luck. But, maybe the .60 .40 .30 sizing that I'm attached to would work...
Last photo; left to my own devices, if I had to choose right now, I'd choose a setting something like the BGD "Sally" but with a trellis setting and probably leaving out the side accent diamonds, using a .60 center stone with .40 and .30 side stones - and hope it doesn't "overhang" too much in a size 5 setting. I do think with a small finger and graduated stones the knife edge (though perhaps uncomfortable) might continue the graduated look from diamonds to setting - I just really like this view of this setting!
OK, I lied, here is a fabulous example of a simple trellis design: katiedid's 5-stone trellis in size 5 with 30 point stones. But I'm wanting a 60 point stone and two 40 point stones (and then two 30 point stones), if possible. Regardless, this is a great example of a setting showcasing instead of competing with the diamonds.
Thank you in advance for your help and wise council. If this long first (nearly) post doesn't get me banned from the forum, maybe nothing will.
If I don't gain some level of comfort I think I'll just have to whisk my girl off to either Houston or NYC and try several rings on and see what looks good on her finger.
Thanks again!
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