Category: Ring
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David Klass Contest Solitaire Setting
I have been asked to post an entry of my design process. I wish I could post my thought process, but that’s just about impossible, seeing as how it took roughly 3 weeks to come up with the idea. The sketches themselves were a product of about 13 hours of just…
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Design: Red Spinel
I had been trying to figure out how to set this red spinel from Peter Torraca for years when I gave up and sold it. I still worked on sketch ideas. I figure that sketches are never wastes of time, they might come in handy for other projects, which is…
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Garnets: Green aka Tsavorite
So I mentioned in a previous post that I’m not typically a huge fan of garnets, but I think that there are a few colors that garnets do better than other gemstone varieties. The top color on that particular list for me is orange, as in spessartite, but this post…
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October: Opal and Tourmaline Estate Rings
My mother was an October baby. So as a result, I grew up enjoying a couple rings in particular, and I had to share them, even though I don’t really know much of the history behind them or any of the details about the stones or the pieces themselves. First up…
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Feature: Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry, Bonus!
So I took a ton of photos while I was at Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry , but some didn’t come out as well as I hoped. Here are a few pieces that I was able to take more than a couple seconds to get a quick snapshot. I don’t…
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Feature: Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry Inside
The Lang interior consists of about 3 larger cases of diamond rings. When we finally got inside, they were full of customers, so we waited our turn while chatting with the salesperson assigned to us. She told us that they will be moving just down the street to a new…
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Jewelry Design
While I have taken many art classes, some centered around edible mediums, I would never consider myself to be a trained artist. I have a dear friend who is an artist, and she makes amazing pieces, typically paintings, that I only wish I could do. I am not a natural…
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Gem Blast: Lavender Asscher Spinel
WordPress seems to like to distort pictures in the upload a bit, doesn’t it? This is a 1.6ct and 6.2mm lavender asscher cut spinel, from the lovely Mr. Peter Torraca of Torraca Gemcutting. The setting was by Coast Diamonds, but it’s no longer set in that ring, and will be…
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Feature: Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry Outside
So, we took a trip to San Francisco, and I specially put aside a Saturday afternoon for going to Lang Antique & Estate Jewelry with a very good friend of mine who is looking for an engagement ring for her friend, and keeping an eye out for her own boyfriend. When…
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Color Shift Sapphire Harry Winston Inspired Halo
A while back, I had a friend ask me for help finding a blue sapphire ring as a wedding gift for her from a family member. She didn’t have any working knowledge of gemstones so she recruited my guidance. Unfortunately, after we had already gotten started, her family member changed…
The Gemstone Project 