I don’t know if I’m in the 2 week club or not, but last week I finalized the engraving design for my reset with Sako. Here are some pics he sent me of the work in progress. None of the engraving yet. The picture with the uneven shoulders was him trying to get them more narrow and tapered for me.
I don’t know if I’m in the 2 week club or not, but last week I finalized the engraving design for my reset with Sako. Here are some pics he sent me of the work in progress. None of the engraving yet. The picture with the uneven shoulders was him trying to get them more narrow and tapered for me.
Yes he did, his dad recut them from modern pears
It’s platinum head and rose gold shank.
Here’s where I want to cry/die in a hole - I don’t love it. I like it, Sako does beautiful work, but there’s too much metal and I don’t know where to go from here. I think he’s upset with me, which is fair because he has been very communicative. He showed me his style of doing the bright wall pave since I didn’t want prongs and wasn’t married to another bezel design with a three stone. The designs looked beautiful. The metal looked pretty minimal and the prongs were delicate and overall the stones didn’t look sunk into the metal. He drew out a design of what the top would look like and said it would be more refined.
But. And this is with my tail between my legs and introverted part of me that’s urging telling me stop whining and just take it: I told him many times that I was having a lot of anxiety about the ring having too much metal and it looking too clunky. The CADs made me nervous and he reassured me. The setting before the stones were set make me nervous and he reassured me. Im feeling very reassured and heard by home.
He sets the stones and asked me of any changes before he proceeds with the engraving and I asked him to taper the shoulders and he did the best he could. At this point I really thought more metal would be shaved off the top but I didn’t say anything. He finished the engraving and the milgrain at the top. And that was it.
My heart dropped. There was no plan for any more metal to be removed.
So I asked him about this, and he pointed out that since my stone is so big, this is basically how it needs to be with this type of bright wall pave. I really wish he said this earlier because with my big goal of less metal, I would’ve gone with a different design. I showed him an example of the bright wall pave I thought my stones would have and look like and he said that’s for small diamonds.
He’s pointing out that we discussed details, and steps, and looks which I totally acknowledge and won’t pretend we didn’t have. But man do I wish I was even pushier about the amount of metal.
Now I don’t know what to do and am waiting for him to get back to me about what my options are.
This is so not what I was hoping for and I feel awful. I don’t know if Sako comes on to PS but I just need help from you all about what I should do. I’ve never been in this position before and this is literally the last of my upgrades.
Here is what the ring looks like now, and I really don’t know how to come to terms with this. I feel like I need to breathe in and out of a paper bag.
Yes he did, his dad recut them from modern pears
It’s platinum head and rose gold shank.
Here’s where I want to cry/die in a hole - I don’t love it. I like it, Sako does beautiful work, but there’s too much metal and I don’t know where to go from here. I think he’s upset with me, which is fair because he has been very communicative. He showed me his style of doing the bright wall pave since I didn’t want prongs and wasn’t married to another bezel design with a three stone. The designs looked beautiful. The metal looked pretty minimal and the prongs were delicate and overall the stones didn’t look sunk into the metal. He drew out a design of what the top would look like and said it would be more refined.
But. And this is with my tail between my legs and introverted part of me that’s urging telling me stop whining and just take it: I told him many times that I was having a lot of anxiety about the ring having too much metal and it looking too clunky. The CADs made me nervous and he reassured me. The setting before the stones were set make me nervous and he reassured me. Im feeling very reassured and heard by home.
He sets the stones and asked me of any changes before he proceeds with the engraving and I asked him to taper the shoulders and he did the best he could. At this point I really thought more metal would be shaved off the top but I didn’t say anything. He finished the engraving and the milgrain at the top. And that was it.
My heart dropped. There was no plan for any more metal to be removed.
So I asked him about this, and he pointed out that since my stone is so big, this is basically how it needs to be with this type of bright wall pave. I really wish he said this earlier because with my big goal of less metal, I would’ve gone with a different design. I showed him an example of the bright wall pave I thought my stones would have and look like and he said that’s for small diamonds.
He’s pointing out that we discussed details, and steps, and looks which I totally acknowledge and won’t pretend we didn’t have. But man do I wish I was even pushier about the amount of metal.
Now I don’t know what to do and am waiting for him to get back to me about what my options are.
This is so not what I was hoping for and I feel awful. I don’t know if Sako comes on to PS but I just need help from you all about what I should do. I’ve never been in this position before and this is literally the last of my upgrades.
Here is what the ring looks like now, and I really don’t know how to come to terms with this. I feel like I need to breathe in and out of a paper bag.
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