Arcadian|1479250792|4099030 said:Likely they taper because they're following the lines of the baguette. If you want it to be one size all the way around, tell them so and have them fix it. But don't approve it as is.
As for the bars, those are there to hold the baguette in place. In your inspiration images they're there, but not as visible as the CAD.
In your inspiration image, send a bigger one to them, DRAW A BIG READ CIRCLE around the area that you want to see on the next CAD. And explain that you don't want a taper, you want the ring to have the same width all the way around (if the bottom is 2.60, and you're happy with that, go with that all the way around.) just know that if you do that, you will have metal around the baguettes.
In the inspiration image, the stones are fatter, so match up well with the width of the band. But if you want a wide band and you don't care if there's metal around the outside of the stone, just say so and ask for it to be represented that way in the CAD.
But don't approve until it fits exactly what you want.
Sagefemme|1479255138|4099065 said:I think what you're asking for, and the examples you have provided, are pretty straightforward. I forget whether you are stuck with this jeweler? It's hard to understand why they are having so much trouble following your directions.
N-jo|1479260785|4099097 said:Sagefemme|1479255138|4099065 said:I think what you're asking for, and the examples you have provided, are pretty straightforward. I forget whether you are stuck with this jeweler? It's hard to understand why they are having so much trouble following your directions.
My feeling had been that he's going to try all the things and get it just right, once. He's said he'd try different options, think on it, really wanted to play around with it. That was October 6, when I just wanted my original setting back and a refund. I really believed that he felt his new employee he'd just bought out had screwed up, and he wanted the chance, even though they were moving, and mine was an unexpected project to redo...
well, I had taken back that dinky setting and asked for refund and my diamond to be put back into the 4 prong simple setting it was in...he all but begged me to please let him figure out a way to make it right...elizabethess|1479320734|4099339 said:N-jo|1479260785|4099097 said:Sagefemme|1479255138|4099065 said:I think what you're asking for, and the examples you have provided, are pretty straightforward. I forget whether you are stuck with this jeweler? It's hard to understand why they are having so much trouble following your directions.
My feeling had been that he's going to try all the things and get it just right, once. He's said he'd try different options, think on it, really wanted to play around with it. That was October 6, when I just wanted my original setting back and a refund. I really believed that he felt his new employee he'd just bought out had screwed up, and he wanted the chance, even though they were moving, and mine was an unexpected project to redo...
I'm sorry you are so frustrated with this, N-jo. I'm wondering the same thing as Sagefemme... maybe the answer isn't that he needs to spend more hours on it, maybe it is simply time to find another jeweler? Maybe this project is beyond the scope of this person who inherited it. Maybe don't waste any more of your precious energy trying to push someone to execute something when they aren't grasping what you want (or are unable to produce what you want) and appear to be not prioritizing the job.
*Hugs* Sorry this project hasn't worked out the way you wanted.
distracts|1479366110|4099620 said:Ahh I missed this thread and commented on your old one. But I'll repeat it here. I think this is the point where you demand a refund and do a credit card chargeback if you don't get one. I have no idea what the problem is but they clearly can't do it, and giving them repeated chances is just going to be ramming your head pointlessly into the wall. I'd send it to David Klass or someone who will get it right without fifty iterations of wrong.
Well it's been a rough couple of hopeless days, but I discovered that talking to the counter person, or office manager or assistant got me heard, I think.tyty333|1479385835|4099681 said:I think you're heading in the right direction N-jo. Just have them sink the ends of the baguettes into the metal. Also need
to make the shank more rounded or at least comfort fit then I think you'll be there right?
diamondseeker2006|1479777805|4101254 said:Looks like the Nov 21 shank width is too narrow again. Do you know the width it is in that picture?