Resetting 3 stone family ring

[danielxlin]

Family ring pictured below. Estimated: 1.25 carat center stone (maybe J color). 0.17 carat each side stone. The platinum setting has a number of problems: super thin shank at the bottom due to polishing/repair, multiple mushed prongs. I think re-setting will be a better option than a complicated and expensive repair job.

My first though is to have ID Jewelry reset the center diamond into a halo, or a bezeled halo to protect the girdle of the stone (small chip). My wife has a 3-stone engagement ring and a halo would be a nice change of pace. ID gave me a rough estimate of $1600 or $1700 to do something similar to this:

[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/my-beautiful-halo-reset-from-id-jewelry.181276/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/my-beautiful-halo-reset-from-id-jewelry.181276/[/URL]

Any other recommended jewelers, in the same or lower price range, who take outside diamonds?

And what would you do with the pair of 0.17 carat each diamonds? Too small for earrings?

 

[PreRaphaelite]

What a gorgeous ring. Could the side stones be tiny-halo'd as earrings?

 

[momhappy]

How about Brilliantly Engaged (formerly ERD)? The did my reset and I was thrilled with the outcome.
Oh, and I like the above post about maybe making the side stones into halo earrings as well

 

[dk168]

I would use the smaller diamonds as side stones in a 3-stone CS ring.

DK

 

[VRBeauty]

What a lovely center stone! Not being a huge halo gal, I'd re-set it in a Scholdt bezel or semi-bazel. https://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/the-sholdt-thread-t175520-30.html

 

[danielxlin]

What a lovely center stone! Not being a huge halo gal, I'd re-set it in a Scholdt bezel or semi-bazel. https://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/the-sholdt-thread-t175520-30.html

Thank you. The Sholdt Ava semibezel from BGD is very pretty and reasonably priced. I hope BGD is offering it more cheaply than most B&M stores? Will check with Greenwich Jewelers, a local place that carries Sholdt, to make sure of that.

 

[danielxlin]

How about Brilliantly Engaged (formerly ERD)? The did my reset and I was thrilled with the outcome.
Oh, and I like the above post about maybe making the side stones into halo earrings as well

Just looked up your halo from BE. Stunning!

Do you think they can do a similar halo for under $2000? Or is it a different stratosphere for custom work like this?

 

[tyty333]

If I'm not mistaken I think BE is more in the $3k+ price range for a halo...wait for more feedback though.

What about David Klass? I heard he is reasonable but not sure what that means.
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/show-us-your-david-klass-bling.196654/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/show-us-your-david-klass-bling.196654/[/URL]

 

[danielxlin]

Anybody know about the "Forever Yours" line at Brilliantly Engaged?

http://www.brilliantlyengaged.com/31-641-fy-18e-bpid-1127-18.html

This seems like a nice 18k halo, 0.60 carat of diamonds, for a reasonable $1499. I'll make an appointment to see whether the quality is good enough.

 

[danielxlin]

Made a couple of fun visits to IDJ and BE. Both very nice, courteous and informative.

BE: the readymade Forever Yours line is not to my taste. The custom work looks as good as advertised. Saw a very pretty split shank micropave.

IDJ: I think I'm going with them because their readymade settings are at an excellent price/quality tradeoff point. Now I'm choosing between a delicate Harry Winston style halo with one pointers in the halo and shank vs. a visually stunning setting with 3 pointers in the halo, and 4 pointers in the shank.

The latter setting has obviously stunning diamond quality (really PS-quality knockout) but I worry about overwhelming the 1 carat center stone. Also it is almost twice as expensive as the Harry Winston style setting. I'm torn.

 

[danielxlin]

Going with the big, chunky halo from IDJ. Here's a blurry pic of the stone sitting in the halo, still unset. 18k gold, 22 four pointers, 12 in the halo, and 10 on the shoulders. Will put better pics in Show Me the Bling next week.

Yekutiel estimated the family diamond as 1.08 carat, I color, and possibly VS1, if the chip in the girdle is repaired, I1 otherwise.