Still working on this ring thing, as best I can. Last time I’d done 2 different drafts, and the last one had been close, but I had carved to close to where the gems would sit so we couldn’t set them, and I didn’t like how the layout looked. I went back at it, with renewed vigor and knowledge of how to make it work.
And at the end, I’m not sure the design we have will work at all.
I don’t know if you can see the problem here, but we’ll see if I can explain it. The design has a gem on each side, while maintaining the existing ring. So the new ring has to either go over the existing, or under. Over is too bulky. Inside is the way we’ve been going. With inside, we’d need to have a little jutty bit that goes on the inside of the ring and sticks up to put a gem on the other side.
This adds material to the inner dimension of the existing ring. Which means we need to take material out of the existing ring in order to maintain the existing inner dimension. And the existing ring is pretty small to begin with!
Here are some photos I took after I’d carved out a pretty good hole for the existing ring – my best yet, after 3 drafts!
So now we have to figure out a new design, possibly with new gems – we’ll see how it goes!
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