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<\/a>Fresh from the garbage disposal!<\/p><\/div>\n
We recently completed the resurrection of a\u00a0ring that had been severely damaged.<\/p>\n
Fine jewelry is made from precious\u00a0materials that when properly cared for, will last\u00a0for centuries. Gemstones are durable and ancient– diamond crystals are typically 1 to 2 billion years old. Gold is eternal. It doesn’t deteriorate and is never discarded– if a style or use becomes outdated or obsolete, gold\u00a0is simply recycled into a new item. The gold ring on your finger almost certainly\u00a0contains gold from ancient times,\u00a0perhaps from the tombs of the Pharaohs!<\/p>\n
But even the most well made ring will not survive the ravages of a garbage disposal! Our client accidentally dropped\u00a0this and several other rings into her fast spinning garbage disposal. Can you imagine the screams of anguish over the grinding racket?<\/p>\n
After she recovered emotionally\u00a0from\u00a0the catastrophe, she came to our shop and asked us to reconstruct the ring. Fortunately, we had seen the ring before the accident and\u00a0she had the remains shown above. Even luckier, four diamonds remained —\u00a0we could measure and grade them so the new ring would be up to snuff.<\/p>\n
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Invisible setting diamonds and gemstones requires special tooling and techniques so we worked with a\u00a0specialist to make the new ring. The rubies had to be specially cut and fitted to follow the complex\u00a0curve along the sides– each stone is actually a narrower at the bottom, a trapezoid shape\u00a0rather than a square like the diamonds across the top. Our client wanted an exact duplicate so we used CAD to recreate the ring precisely– here’s the working \u00a0CAD<\/p>\n
<\/a>Working CAD rendering<\/p><\/div>\n
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And here’s one of the\u00a0CAD renderings we showed our client<\/p>\n