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#38020 - 08/21/04 02:02 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Wink]
starstruck Offline
BTD Crown Jewel

Registered: 08/31/03
Posts: 10928
Loc: State of Confusion
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Okay, now that I have shown you some nit picky things wrong with the ring on the left, what are some of the major things right with both rings?

Your turn! I will be back later to tell you what I think...




Quote:

Hmmmm....they aren't mine? I've been looking and looking and I just don't know!





My eyes are playimg tricks on me I thought it said something major WRONG with both rings! Ignore me.



Edited by starstruck (08/21/04 02:03 PM)

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#38021 - 08/21/04 02:09 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: starstruck]
starstruck Offline
BTD Crown Jewel

Registered: 08/31/03
Posts: 10928
Loc: State of Confusion
Quote:

Quote:

Okay, now that I have shown you some nit picky things wrong with the ring on the left, what are some of the major things right with both rings?

Your turn! I will be back later to tell you what I think...




Quote:

Hmmmm....they aren't mine? I've been looking and looking and I just don't know!





My eyes are playimg tricks on me I thought it said something major WRONG with both rings! Ignore me.




In my own defense, notice I couldn't find anything?! They are both beautiful pieces Wink.


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#38022 - 08/21/04 02:16 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Wink]
Chai Offline
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Registered: 05/11/04
Posts: 284
I know absolutely nothing about the finer points of jewelry BUT I like how the side stones carry the shape of the center stone out to the shank. Which probably sounds like "blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blah" to the knowledgeable ones around here. But that's just what my eyes like about each ring.


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#38023 - 08/21/04 03:53 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Chai]
Wink Offline
The Florentine Diamond

Registered: 08/20/04
Posts: 5963
Loc: Boise, Idaho
Excellent! Cyn, your post was great and incorporated nearly every thing I was going to say so no need for me to say it again. You can probably work quality control for most jewelers. That nice thick shank will wear for at least ten years and more likely fifteen to twenty before needing to be replaced. These rings will outlive the CZ's. Well, maybe not the Asha in the ring on the right. Jury is out on that, we know it will wear longer than the other cz's without the coating, but how long is longer. I guess we will have to wait for some of them to start wearing out to know...

Chai, your point about the gentle taper from the center stone to the shank is the only point that Cyn did not mention, and that is more a function of the design than the actual making of the ring, although the stones were chosen for just that reason.

Starstruck, I could not figure out how them not being yours was a good thing. Then I saw that you thougt I was asking what was wrong. Then I really liked your answer.

MrsE. I never thought about the split prong being something you never see on sims, I guess because we do so many of them. You get the prize for an answer that I would not have given, but which has a lot of merit.

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#38024 - 08/21/04 04:39 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Wink]
RM Offline
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Registered: 08/20/03
Posts: 34
Loc: crowded DC metro
Wink, I have to brag about you!!! That ring with the genuine sapphires is my e-ring, ladies!! And I have to tell you the picture does NOT do it justice. Wink and "miracle workers" did a fabulous job and I can't believe I haven't gotten myself into a car wreck yet. Can't take my eyes off of it. Wink is the man to go to for lovely pieces and honest business.


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#38025 - 08/21/04 04:48 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: RM]
Cyn Offline

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Registered: 08/26/03
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Loc: BKAC
Congrats! May you wear it in love, good health and happiness always.

Need fabulous eye candy, you know we'd love to see some on the hand pics!

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#38026 - 08/21/04 04:51 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Cyn]
RM Offline
Smitten

Registered: 08/20/03
Posts: 34
Loc: crowded DC metro
Definitely will post on-the-hand pics in the near future!


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#38027 - 08/21/04 04:54 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: RM]
starstruck Offline
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Registered: 08/31/03
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Loc: State of Confusion
Quote:

Wink, I have to brag about you!!! That ring with the genuine sapphires is my e-ring, ladies!! And I have to tell you the picture does NOT do it justice. Wink and "miracle workers" did a fabulous job and I can't believe I haven't gotten myself into a car wreck yet. Can't take my eyes off of it. Wink is the man to go to for lovely pieces and honest business.





You lucky lady!!! Christine gave me a tip...do not look directly at it , hold your hand where you can see it in review mirror


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#38028 - 08/21/04 05:14 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: RM]
Wink Offline
The Florentine Diamond

Registered: 08/20/04
Posts: 5963
Loc: Boise, Idaho
Quote:

Wink, I have to brag about you!!! That ring with the genuine sapphires is my e-ring, ladies!! And I have to tell you the picture does NOT do it justice. Wink and "miracle workers" did a fabulous job and I can't believe I haven't gotten myself into a car wreck yet. Can't take my eyes off of it. Wink is the man to go to for lovely pieces and honest business.


Hey, how are you?

When I woke up and decided that Less's gift to me was way too special to just post pretty pictures on I decided to use your ring as the BETTER example, especially since you had already told me how much better you liked the finished product than the original design that you thought you wanted. (Of course it helped that you had already told me it was okay to use your picture )I am glad you approve of my thread! Be careful about that driving and admiring your ring simultaneously thing though!

Wink


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#38029 - 08/21/04 05:25 PM Re: Semi-Custom Design, Good and BETTER [Re: Wink]
RM Offline
Smitten

Registered: 08/20/03
Posts: 34
Loc: crowded DC metro
Shades...what a fabulous idea!!! Will I suffer from withdrawal?? I can't actually wear the ring yet (not officially engaged, but had the ring made in advance to my - and Wink's! - specifications). Like an addict, I take the ring and its box everywhere, though. Would this qualify as a sickness? Can't help it. It's too gorgeous.


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