My Victorian solitaire with a .63ct diamond and two 3mm ceylon-blue sapphires. Loverly!
victorian solitaire with sapphires!
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Category Archives: Rings
modern wedding bands with sapphires
A modern pair of palladium wedding bands with little flush-set sapphires!
scattered ginkgo and diamond band
This ring started out as a simple solitaire with a central diamond and a couple of ginkgo leaves on either side, then morphed into this awesomeness. 14K white gold and diamonds.
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low-profile ginkgo bands
Low-profile scattered ginkgo leaf wedding bands in 14K yellow gold.
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I’ve been up to my eyeballs in custom orders these days. I never know quite what to expect with wedding season somehow and these past two months were the busiest I’ve ever been! I wanted to share this lovely batch of solitaires. These are a combination of 14K white gold, palladium, platinum, diamonds and one moissanite!
This one was the customer’s 1+ carat stone and we added a little green emerald moon. I really love how this turned out. (It is palladium and the low-profile solitaire style.)
art nouveau sapphire solitaire
This ring was cast into 14K palladium white gold, which has a slightly deeper color than the more common 14K nickel white gold. (Some people have nickel sensitivities or allergies, in which case I use a palladium white gold alloy.) It’s super subtle, but I think the deeper color went awesomely with the blue stone. The sapphire is a gorgeous 5.5mm stone with a clear Ceylon-blue color. I love how it turned out.
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tree – wave – mountain band
I’ve carved a few pictorial panorama rings with similar themes: tree, ocean, wave, shell, etc. It is a really fun ring to carve because I get to have so much real-estate! On this one, the client wanted to have his favorite mountain: Mammoth Mountain in CA. The finished piece was cast into Palladium.
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arabesque solitaire
This was a custom engagement solitaire in 18K white gold with a ~1/3ct diamond. I carved a scrolling leafy/arabesque design and worked in initials of the bride and groom. At the bottom of the band is a pi symbol. More images after the jump! Continue reading
morning glory ring
Ring carved with morning glory motif. I went very three-dimensional here—kind of a Rivendell vibe. 14K palladium white gold, lavender sapphire and diamond.
I don’t often use the palladium white gold alloys (14K or 18K palladium white gold); it amazes me how every alloy is different from one another. The color of the 14KPd white is deeper—steelier even—than the standard 14K alloy I normally use (nickel alloy). I feel like it also takes a more intense polish than the 14K nickel white, but maybe it is an illusion of the darker color.
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sneak peek
Just a quick sneak peek a new piece I’m working on for me for the shop. (This is the bottom of the ring.) I am still waiting to buy the stone for it; I am thinking a ruby would be suitable. The red color with the 18K gold seems to work really well.