reena
Ideal_Rock
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We bought my stone today--YAY
, post to follow on that but thanks to all of you for the wonderful advice.
now im on a quest for a setting. here's the issue: after trying on about a million settings i sort of decided that superfine micropave (like you might see in a richard landi or a michael b setting), which is what i originally wanted, is TOO fine for my tastes. i still want small melee, but i think i prefer the stones to be of a size where you can actually almost make out that you're looking at a very very tiny round diamond (as opposed to just seeing undefined "sparklies" everywhere).
i tried on a setting today that i liked very much, it had about a 3mm band, and one melee stone fit just perfectly width-wise into the side. (although there was a very very thin border of plain platinum on the sides, which the stones were nestled between.) so essentially the setting looked like a single-file row of tiny tiny diamonds. does this make any sense? i hope so.
anyway the problem im having is that i don't know what size the stones were so i don't know how to explain to my setting guy what i want. the response to chrono's post on melee today said that the dimension of a five pointer is about 2.4mm, so does it sound like the ones i liked may have been around that size (to fit onto the 3mm band, along with the thin border and the metalwork around the stones)? or smaller? i could have sworn the guy who showed me the setting said that it was composed of "half pointers to one and a half pointers", but given the dimensions just discussed, how could that be right? (the range in sizes is explained by the fact that the pave was much smaller on certain thinner parts of the setting, like on the side, but im not concerned with those. just the ones on the shank.)
id also appreciate a sense of what size melee (i know it will be a range) are generally used in micropave vs. in pave.
thanks--sorry im so clueless but i REALLY appreciate the advice.
REENA
now im on a quest for a setting. here's the issue: after trying on about a million settings i sort of decided that superfine micropave (like you might see in a richard landi or a michael b setting), which is what i originally wanted, is TOO fine for my tastes. i still want small melee, but i think i prefer the stones to be of a size where you can actually almost make out that you're looking at a very very tiny round diamond (as opposed to just seeing undefined "sparklies" everywhere).
i tried on a setting today that i liked very much, it had about a 3mm band, and one melee stone fit just perfectly width-wise into the side. (although there was a very very thin border of plain platinum on the sides, which the stones were nestled between.) so essentially the setting looked like a single-file row of tiny tiny diamonds. does this make any sense? i hope so.
anyway the problem im having is that i don't know what size the stones were so i don't know how to explain to my setting guy what i want. the response to chrono's post on melee today said that the dimension of a five pointer is about 2.4mm, so does it sound like the ones i liked may have been around that size (to fit onto the 3mm band, along with the thin border and the metalwork around the stones)? or smaller? i could have sworn the guy who showed me the setting said that it was composed of "half pointers to one and a half pointers", but given the dimensions just discussed, how could that be right? (the range in sizes is explained by the fact that the pave was much smaller on certain thinner parts of the setting, like on the side, but im not concerned with those. just the ones on the shank.)
id also appreciate a sense of what size melee (i know it will be a range) are generally used in micropave vs. in pave.
thanks--sorry im so clueless but i REALLY appreciate the advice.
REENA
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