Setting help - show me your graduated sidestones / shank

[Jereni]

Hi everyone!

I'm working on a Christmas gift for my mom and I would love to get some setting advice. I'd like to make her a RHR with a colored gem. Her engagement ring is an emerald cut diamond set in yellow gold, and I know she likes elongated shapes, plus red/pink are her favorite colors. So, to that end, I am thinking a rhodolite garnet, something like below. This stone is 10.6 x 8.4mm, which is around the size I'd like.



Now I need setting help. I'd like to do something more interesting than just a solitaire, but shy of a halo. I don't really have the budget for a custom halo and I think it'd be too blingy for her anyway.

My initial thoughts were rose gold, with a shank that is graduated and grows out a little bit as it approaches the stone. And ideally, with 3 diamonds embedded in the shank that get bigger also.

If possible, I am looking for guidance on the size of the melee (right term?) to use, and also may some ideas for the profile? Thanks so much in advance!

 

[Jereni]

These are some of my inspiration pics.... The first shows a ring with a slightly elongated stone, but the side diamonds are huge....too big in my mind.



The second has a nice series of graduation, but I hate the way the profile looks.

 

[Gypsy]

There are many lovely rings in that style. What's your budget? You best best for cost effective is a stock setting in that style.

 

[Jereni]

My budget is about $1500 for the setting. I'm hoping that's more than I need. This is probably a dumb question but where would I look up stock settings? What constitutes a 'stock' setting?

Overall though, I think I want to do a custom setting for her ring. It's a bit of a special gift, a celebration gift. She finished chemo this year and is officially cancer-free I want to really put a smile on her face and knock her socks off with this.

 

[Fly Girl]

My budget is about $1500 for the setting. I'm hoping that's more than I need. This is probably a dumb question but where would I look up stock settings? What constitutes a 'stock' setting?

Overall though, I think I want to do a custom setting for her ring. It's a bit of a special gift, a celebration gift. She finished chemo this year and is officially cancer-free I want to really put a smile on her face and knock her socks off with this.

Stuller settings can be ordered by any jeweler. Here is the link to emerald cut gemstone ring mounts.

http://www.stuller.com/browse/mountings/rings/for-gemstones/emerald-octagon/

 

[Gypsy]

THere are quite a few of that setting style for round stones. And quite a few above budget. But in budget and for an elongated shape... I'm not finding anything.

You can ask Daniel M what he'd charge for that style for you, custom.

 

[Gypsy]

20% off this price is possible through PS vendors. But you'd have to see if they could customize the heads for a non-round. It says the heads are changeable. Not sure all are graduated. But I think at least one of them is.
http://www.gabrielny.com/engaged/style/ER8223W44JJ
http://www.gabrielny.com/engaged/style/ER8222W44JJ
http://www.gabrielny.com/engaged/style/ER8221W44JJ

 

[VRBeauty]

Jereni - If you haven't yet found a center stone, you might want to head on over to the colored stones forum... the folks there know a lot of great sources for precision-cut colored stones!

 

[slksapphire]

hello,

don't know if you can find this in a stock setting but thought i'd post it for inspiration. sorry for the blurry photo ... the keystone is an 11.7 X 7.7 EC sapphire; the side stones are 6, 5 and 4 X 2.5 EC F-G VS1 EC diamonds. enjoy!

 

[Jereni]

THere are quite a few of that setting style for round stones. And quite a few above budget. But in budget and for an elongated shape... I'm not finding anything.

You can ask Daniel M what he'd charge for that style for you, custom.

Gotcha, ok thanks for the feedback. Maybe I need to rethink the setting in that case. To be clear, I wasn't thinking diamonds all the way around the band - just three graduated stones on each side, and then the shank just becomes a regular shank.

Jereni - If you haven't yet found a center stone, you might want to head on over to the colored stones forum... the folks there know a lot of great sources for precision-cut colored stones!

Thank you - yeah I apologize, maybe I should have posted this in CS from the start. I typically spend most of my time in that forum, but since this was more of a setting question (and diamond sizing question), I thought maybe it should be here. I'll go ahead and take it CS from here on out.

silksapphire, thanks so much for posting some inspiration!!!! Your ring is TDF. And yeah, that is more what I was thinking of, with just a couple diamonds on either side. But smaller stones than yours, given my budget Gorgeous ring though!

Edited to add: thanks for the link to Stuller, FlyGirl!