[Jewelry making - Article 00610] - [Orchid] I was dumb

[Wildpoppy2]

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    i admit it, i did a really dumb thing.  purchased a beautiful silver
    ring, pressure mount,  has inlay opal that is around each edge u
    shape as you look at the ring from the sides, and also across the
    top, wide sides that held the ugliest citeron you ever saw in your
    life.  the opal is in blue/greens.  

    so i guess you figured out i got the citeron out.  not easily, that
    thing was in there for good, till i sorta crushed it.  i have the
    stone i want in there.  should fit beautifully.  

    i have no idea how to do it.  it has the grooves in sides of the
    inside of the mounting. 

    i have the feeling i will be doing a wire wrap setting to hold the
    stone in....but i really want the ring to be back to being tention. 

    i now stand,  um, can't stand, ok, now sit ready to take my lectures
    on how dumb it is to buy a piece of jewelry with the intent to
    change the stone...especially when you have no clue how to do the
    new mounting. 

    pat
    http://imageevents.com/patmcaudel

    new site for pictures...jewelrey and at a link, granddaughter 18mo
    old but don't feel pressured to look at paige.....

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