The only issue I see with bezeling marquise diamonds into those cutouts - which visually I do like - is that the diamonds would be like 1mm wide unless the band were widened a good bit b/c you have to have room to bezel them. And I didn’t think @Maisie wanted a wide band. But if she does, it’s certainly doable.
Of these last two choices you posted, I like the bottom one best for a couple of reasons:
- I like how the shoulders naturally die into the flat side of the octagon bezel. They hit perfectly together where the bezel changes angles. That looks very fluid to me, and like it is "meant" to be that way.
- I like the fact you see more of the triangle cut outs.
- You can view the shoulder two different ways. The first is that you have triangle cut outs. But if you focus on the gold piece, it looks like a petal that is going to a sharp point, which terminates at a nice flat point on the center stone bezel.
- On the top view, this same shoulder transition occurs BUT at a point on the center stone bezel and too much pointy stuff is going on -- you have the triangles competing, the center stone bezel point competing and then the pointy shoulder piece competing. IMO, it's just too many pointy objects trying to fight for the attention. The other view looks more balanced and natural.
- Not to mention the shoulders on the top view don't have that nice smooth look either. It just sort of "exists".
- Also if the letters M or W have any meaning to you, you can also see that as well (look at green).
Maybe these comments with my chicken scratch will make sense.
My surname begins with a W
I agree with all the points you made. I was leaning towards the second orientation too. I am decided on that for the top down view. I’m so excited!! I’m very grateful for all the help I’ve received here. This place is awesome!
As an old college professor said, "well, HOT DAMN!"
I'm not quite sure how that phrase came to be, but I smiled every time he would say it. More so, I am happy you have made a decision on this part of the ring! And I think it's really cool your surname starts with a W -- that part now has meaning. </end sentimental version of Sledge>
I have a halo ring and I would like the new ring to be around the same height. Is this possible?
As long as your diamond isn’t more than ~6mm deep (and I doubt it is), I believe you can do that just fine.
As a practical matter, I don't know how you'd do that. You have a flex-shaft (think fancy dremel tool) or a bigger wheel and you are applying the texture. You really can't avoid getting it more all over than not. Its like sanding wood, you have to go through a bunch of levels of grit to get from just cut to funiture grade finish.
Do you want the donut round, square or octagonal?How does this look?
I think the softened square shape or octagon would flow better with the octagon bezel. So, like the lower right image in your last collage or the octagon like the reverse arches.I suppose round as my diamond is round? Lol! I thought I had covered everything
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