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Search
on design
engagement ring on the internet to find pages and pages of information
on designing your own custom engagement rings, including advice, overviews
of styles, settings and gemstones and lists of professional jewelery
designers. If you want to design jewelry, searching for design
engagement ring is your first step in finding out all you need
to know about how to build a ring from scratch ... and you don’t
need to be a ring designer.
Searching
the internet can be somewhat confusing at first because of the
sheer quantity of information available, but if you want to make
your own and persevere sifting through what comes up, you’ll
become an amateur ring designer in no time. If you want to
design jewelry, read on for some pointers to get you started.
Design
engagement rings in
a nutshell
The three C’s
are cut, clarity and carat.
Clarity:
color and clarity grades range for diamonds from D (high quality
clear) to Z (lesser productclarity).
Cut:
diamonds are cut into various shapes like round, princess, oval,
emerald, baguette, radiant, pear-shaped and marquise.
Carat: the weight
(not the size) of a diamond is measured in carats. One carat equals
100 points.
Settings.
There are a number of settings for diamonds and other precious
and semi-precious gemstones, including the prong setting (solitaires),
flush setting (where the diamond is sunk into the mounting), bezel
setting (the gem stone is wrapped around with a collar of gold
or other metal), pave setting (small stones are set in a band of
metal).
Metals. Traditional
metals used in the crafting of engagement rings include platinum
and gold, either white or yellow. Platinum is far more expensive
than gold, but a lot more durable and purer. The choice of metal
depends on the gemstone chosen – traditionally
diamonds have been teemed with gold, but if the
diamond is not high quality it is advisable to choose a white metal
to detract from any yellow tinge.
Size.
Like many other things, when it comes to gemstones bigger is not
better, unless you want to be showy, and quality tells. Diamonds
and other gemstones are graded on their quality and number
of flaws or lack of flaws, rather than on their
weight and size. For investment purposes, quality
is more important than number of carats. Also,
you need to take into consideration the shape and
style of your fiance when buying a gemstone. A
petite young woman with small, elegant fingers
will look and feel uncomfortable sporting a knuckleduster
of a ring. The
above pointers have been a taster. For more information
than you’ll need, search the internet for design
engagement ring.
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