Siamese Kitty
Brilliant_Rock
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- Feb 3, 2006
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Hi All!
I got engaged to my wonderful new fiancé last week with the most gorgeous ring ever. It is an 18K rose gold solitaire with 18K white gold head from a well-respected PS vendor. Prior to shipping the ring, my fiancé told me it had been flagged for porosity issues and had to be recast. Two days later it went out and he proposed a day after that. In the span of a day or two, little black dots and bubbles/holes are popping up on both the shank and head. It literally looks "pocked" in some areas. In other areas the rose color looks striated and uneven. It is absolutely heartbreaking to see this happen to my beautiful ring. I'm really saddened at the prospect of not having the ring my fiancé proposed with and likely not having a ring at all for a long stretch of time. (First world problems I know-just kind of upset.:/)
I recommended this vendor to him and I have purchased a ton of jewelry from them over the course of ten years with no issues. I feel like they will make it right so out of fairness we want to try to work through this with them first instead of creating a preemptive stink. That said, I do have concerns about asking them to redo this ring. This is supposedly the second iteration with the exact same issue. So my question is, is there an inherent complication with rose gold that makes it more difficult than other alloys to cast and/or more prone to porosity? I have done some internet research and it looks like this could be the case. Also, would switching to a 14K alloy give me a better chance of not running into this again? I wondered if anyone had some insight into what I could maybe do differently this time or request in order to have a better outcome. I absolutely love the rose gold and want to keep this element of the ring.
As a side question, is porosity something that will continue to progress? Both my fiancé and I feel like we are noticing more issues every time we look at the ring.
Thank you in advance!
SK
I got engaged to my wonderful new fiancé last week with the most gorgeous ring ever. It is an 18K rose gold solitaire with 18K white gold head from a well-respected PS vendor. Prior to shipping the ring, my fiancé told me it had been flagged for porosity issues and had to be recast. Two days later it went out and he proposed a day after that. In the span of a day or two, little black dots and bubbles/holes are popping up on both the shank and head. It literally looks "pocked" in some areas. In other areas the rose color looks striated and uneven. It is absolutely heartbreaking to see this happen to my beautiful ring. I'm really saddened at the prospect of not having the ring my fiancé proposed with and likely not having a ring at all for a long stretch of time. (First world problems I know-just kind of upset.:/)
I recommended this vendor to him and I have purchased a ton of jewelry from them over the course of ten years with no issues. I feel like they will make it right so out of fairness we want to try to work through this with them first instead of creating a preemptive stink. That said, I do have concerns about asking them to redo this ring. This is supposedly the second iteration with the exact same issue. So my question is, is there an inherent complication with rose gold that makes it more difficult than other alloys to cast and/or more prone to porosity? I have done some internet research and it looks like this could be the case. Also, would switching to a 14K alloy give me a better chance of not running into this again? I wondered if anyone had some insight into what I could maybe do differently this time or request in order to have a better outcome. I absolutely love the rose gold and want to keep this element of the ring.
As a side question, is porosity something that will continue to progress? Both my fiancé and I feel like we are noticing more issues every time we look at the ring.
Thank you in advance!
SK
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