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Hello friends,
I mentioned this project a couple of times, so I wanted to show the finished results. This was my first time working with DK. Super pleased with the entire experience! While I do enjoy a collaboration, I'm starting to really appreciate how David and Amy just take your ideas and get straight to work... no constraints or hedging. We were about a month behind schedule, but I'm always willing to wait for quality. Plus, I see all of the CADs/pieces everyone shares from him here... the man is BUSY... yet he never turns anyone away. Anyway, here are the specs.
~Platinum and rose gold, 9g
~Paraiba tourmaline is 2ct., 9x7mm, greenish-blue, eye clean
~Pink diamonds are .60ctw., 2mm (Argyle 5P, GIA fancy intense pink, and VS)
~White diamonds are 1.65ctw., F, VS
These are David's photos, which are really lovely. I still think the stones are more vibrant in person, although I haven't seen them in a while! lol I had a video too, but it was really washed out and hazy, so I didn't bother to save it. I should receive the ring next week. Yay!
This is stunning!!! the paraiba's color is simply magical (and so clean too!). Huge congrats!
DK overnighted the ring for Saturday delivery (for free). How awesome is he? Received it today! I am losing daylight here, but managed to snap a couple of videos. The first was taken under direct natural light, and the second under indirect natural light. Dusk is probably not the best time of day to showcase CS, but I couldn't wait!
I ended up going with the smaller diamonds . I liked both options, but for some reason I kept gravitating towards that version. I’ll be sure to share once it’s arrives!@2Neezers Yippee!! Did you go with the larger or smaller accent diamonds? IYou can't miss either way. Super excited to see your "SMTG" thread now!!
DK overnighted the ring for Saturday delivery (for free). How awesome is he? Received it today! I am losing daylight here, but managed to snap a couple of videos. The first was taken under direct natural light, and the second under indirect natural light. Dusk is probably not the best time of day to showcase CS, but I couldn't wait!
Your ring looks sooo gorgeous in your videos!! The color of your paraiba pops!
I love that the design follows the curve of the finger and looks like it would be very comfortable to wear. This is a ring that CS dreams are made of!
I ended up going with the smaller diamonds . I liked both options, but for some reason I kept gravitating towards that version. I’ll be sure to share once it’s arrives!
Gorgeous color and design
Maybe a group photo of your lovelies in the works?
Or something in the ‘show your rings on one hand’ thread?
Please?
@Autumn in New England !!! HOLY MACKEREL that is one fantastically gorgeous ring!!! I love love love the color combo and that halo is TDF! Your videos show the color so much better You design such beautiful rings - wear this one (and all your lovelies) in health & happiness!
Also...hand shots pretty please!
Also also...I vote #JOTW like @LilAlex did. Colored gemstone posts can be JOTW! Look at monarch64 's beautiful citrine ring!
I don't think I have enough rings yet! The majority of my gems are still unset. *sigh* But I'm flattered you would ask. One day, for sure!!
My vision when I started collecting was to have one gem in every color of the rainbow... that was meant to limit my spending (only 7 stones!). Then it started veering into all different tertiary colors. lol I'm obsessed with rainbows and completeness (OCD much?). Obviously, there's an infinite number of gem colors, if one is so inclined, so my plan failed miserably. Still, I have far fewer gems than some fellow PSers with impressive collections. Here's what I'm working with so far...
Ruby
Red spinel
Coral spinel
Padparadscha
Spessartine
Imperial topaz
Danburite
Chrysoberyl
Tsavorite
Emerald
Mint grossular
Paraiba
Blue sapphire
Periwinkle sapphire
Lavender amethyst
Purple garnet
Light purplish-pink spinel
Light warm pink tourmaline
Hot pink rubellite
Mahenge pink spinel
Gray spinel
Black spinel
(I will be adding a black opal to my collection as well.)
Do you notice any color gaps? If so, shout them out, because I'm always looking for a transition colored gem I don't yet have.Actually, in looking at my list now, I see that I don't have a brown. But I sort of hate brown.What's a nice brown gem (besides smoky quartz, which is mostly irradiated))?
Omg we need group pictures of your whole gem family!
I don't think I have enough rings yet! The majority of my gems are still unset. *sigh* But I'm flattered you would ask. One day, for sure!!
My vision when I started collecting was to have one gem in every color of the rainbow... that was meant to limit my spending (only 7 stones!). Then it started veering into all different tertiary colors. lol I'm obsessed with rainbows and completeness (OCD much?). Obviously, there's an infinite number of gem colors, if one is so inclined, so my plan failed miserably. Still, I have far fewer gems than some fellow PSers with impressive collections. Here's what I'm working with so far...
Ruby
Red spinel
Coral spinel
Padparadscha
Spessartine
Imperial topaz
Danburite
Chrysoberyl
Tsavorite
Emerald
Mint grossular
Paraiba
Blue sapphire
Periwinkle sapphire
Lavender amethyst
Purple garnet
Light purplish-pink spinel
Light warm pink tourmaline
Hot pink rubellite
Mahenge pink spinel
Gray spinel
Black spinel
(I will be adding a black opal to my collection as well.)
Do you notice any color gaps? If so, shout them out, because I'm always looking for a transition colored gem I don't yet have.Actually, in looking at my list now, I see that I don't have a brown. But I sort of hate brown.What's a nice brown gem (besides smoky quartz, which is mostly irradiated))?
@LilAlex has a beautiful brown chrysoberyl that is just to die for!
@LilAlex has a beautiful brown chrysoberyl that is just to die for!
Actually, in looking at my list now, I see that I don't have a brown. But I sort of hate brown.What's a nice brown gem (besides smoky quartz, which is mostly irradiated))?
You know what I was thinking of too - zircon. I've always wanted one and they do come in brown. Actually, I believe blue zircons are created by heating the brown material.
You know what I was thinking of too - zircon. I've always wanted one and they do come in brown. Actually, I believe blue zircons are created by heating the brown material.
@LilAlex has a beautiful brown chrysoberyl that is just to die for!
I don't think I have enough rings yet! The majority of my gems are still unset. *sigh* But I'm flattered you would ask. One day, for sure!!
My vision when I started collecting was to have one gem in every color of the rainbow... that was meant to limit my spending (only 7 stones!). Then it started veering into all different tertiary colors. lol I'm obsessed with rainbows and completeness (OCD much?). Obviously, there's an infinite number of gem colors, if one is so inclined, so my plan failed miserably. Still, I have far fewer gems than some fellow PSers with impressive collections. Here's what I'm working with so far...
Ruby
Red spinel
Coral spinel
Padparadscha
Spessartine
Imperial topaz
Danburite
Chrysoberyl
Tsavorite
Emerald
Mint grossular
Paraiba
Blue sapphire
Periwinkle sapphire
Lavender amethyst
Purple garnet
Light purplish-pink spinel
Light warm pink tourmaline
Hot pink rubellite
Mahenge pink spinel
Gray spinel
Black spinel
(I will be adding a black opal to my collection as well.)
Do you notice any color gaps? If so, shout them out, because I'm always looking for a transition colored gem I don't yet have.Actually, in looking at my list now, I see that I don't have a brown. But I sort of hate brown.What's a nice brown gem (besides smoky quartz, which is mostly irradiated))?
Hello friends,
I mentioned this project a couple of times, so I wanted to show the finished results. This was my first time working with DK. Super pleased with the entire experience! While I do enjoy a collaboration, I'm starting to really appreciate how David and Amy just take your ideas and get straight to work... no constraints or hedging. We were about a month behind schedule, but I'm always willing to wait for quality. Plus, I see all of the CADs/pieces everyone shares from him here... the man is BUSY... yet he never turns anyone away. Anyway, here are the specs.
~Platinum and rose gold, 9g
~Paraiba tourmaline is 2ct., 9x7mm, greenish-blue, eye clean
~Pink diamonds are .60ctw., 2mm (Argyle 5P, GIA fancy intense pink, and VS)
~White diamonds are 1.65ctw., F, VS
These are David's photos, which are really lovely. I still think the stones are more vibrant in person, although I haven't seen them in a while! lol I had a video too, but it was really washed out and hazy, so I didn't bother to save it. I should receive the ring next week. Yay!
hehe I have a pinkish brown zircon that I wear with abandon because it's a dodgy colour. Oddly enough as fate would have it, it is NEVER knocked or dinked even though I seriously do not care about it!
You are so orderly in the way you collect colours!!!! Can't wait to see them set!
I fell in love with spinels and ended up collecting all kinds of colors. I’m almost out of options which is a good thing but now I’m thinking I need a Jedi. Of course.
Sphene and cobalt spinel? Or you may already have these two.
A shout-out! Thank you, @maru8888777 and @Autumn in New England! I hardly wear it since COVID and all the hand sanitizer... And this amazing celebration-of-color thread is hardly the venue for bringing up my "brown-on-brown" ring (well, more golden-on-green-gold)!
I like brown. On my short list is a "true" light or very light brown diamond -- either fancy or even faint (like a low-color M - Z). Not a yellow or yellow-brown or champagne but a pure "cocoa-colored" cool pale brown. I don't know why. Not super-spendy but not super common, either. Maybe set in unplated 18K palladium white gold -- which has a lovely brownish "pull." Seems like something Hemmerle might do if they had my modest budget. And limited imagination. Oh, and still made jewelry for humans.
And I did have my eye on a big and (local!) orange zircon.