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Lola is finally set, after a long time and several botched attempts on my part.
Biggest Thank-you ever to Victor Canera, who has the patience of a saint I swear and always has time for me, I can't give him enough praise, every time I work with him he is always gracious, and the workmanship leaves everything else I have seen for dead.
This one was a difficult one for Victor, Lola is a 5.34 L VS2 tinted white OEC. She is 11.06 - 11.41 mms so she is non symmetrical and has enough wonk that you know she is all original but not enough to make her unpleasant to look at. Victor normally will not make a setting for a stone that he has never seen that is not round or a uniform shape, as it is much more difficult working without the diamond (the diamond was and has always been here in Australia and I didn't want to send it overseas)....
Victor sent me the setting about a week ago unfinished, a setter here in Australia set Lola and finished off the claws. They are not as refined or as small as Victor would have done them that is true (I have other Victor pieces to compare) but considering most Aussie jewellers aren't in the same league, we are both very happy with the finished product.
Top down the ring looks like a genuine Antique piece and the setter here finished the prongs so that they would not catch on anything which I am grateful for. From the side view the Art Deco gallery all handmade by Victor is a work of art. For more information about the stone & to see Lola unset go here;
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/meet-lola-the-cushion-shaped-5-34-l-vs-carat-chunky-cut-oec.194432/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/meet-lola-the-cushion-shaped-5-34-l-vs-carat-chunky-cut-oec.194432/[/URL]
To see a better pic of the setting before the stone and two of my pics after setting go here;
https://www.facebook.com/VictorCanera
These are the pics that I have been able to save and upload so far;
The setting as it arrived from Victor waiting to be set before;
And after;
Biggest Thank-you ever to Victor Canera, who has the patience of a saint I swear and always has time for me, I can't give him enough praise, every time I work with him he is always gracious, and the workmanship leaves everything else I have seen for dead.
This one was a difficult one for Victor, Lola is a 5.34 L VS2 tinted white OEC. She is 11.06 - 11.41 mms so she is non symmetrical and has enough wonk that you know she is all original but not enough to make her unpleasant to look at. Victor normally will not make a setting for a stone that he has never seen that is not round or a uniform shape, as it is much more difficult working without the diamond (the diamond was and has always been here in Australia and I didn't want to send it overseas)....
Victor sent me the setting about a week ago unfinished, a setter here in Australia set Lola and finished off the claws. They are not as refined or as small as Victor would have done them that is true (I have other Victor pieces to compare) but considering most Aussie jewellers aren't in the same league, we are both very happy with the finished product.
Top down the ring looks like a genuine Antique piece and the setter here finished the prongs so that they would not catch on anything which I am grateful for. From the side view the Art Deco gallery all handmade by Victor is a work of art. For more information about the stone & to see Lola unset go here;
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/meet-lola-the-cushion-shaped-5-34-l-vs-carat-chunky-cut-oec.194432/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/meet-lola-the-cushion-shaped-5-34-l-vs-carat-chunky-cut-oec.194432/[/URL]
To see a better pic of the setting before the stone and two of my pics after setting go here;
https://www.facebook.com/VictorCanera
These are the pics that I have been able to save and upload so far;
The setting as it arrived from Victor waiting to be set before;
And after;
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