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Style advice on model for placeholder engagement ring
Hi All,
The preamble is that I'm making a placeholder engagement ring because I don't exactly know what style she'd like (pretty sure she doesn't know either). I'm making a wax model and will have it cast by a jewellery firm (that require two masters so twice the work, twice the error potential). The casting firm I think can do a good bit of the finishing and stone setting will be done by a local jeweller as I don't have the skill.
The design has a flying shoulder (attached picture M0) that is carved and engraved based very loosely on Van Goghs starry night (attached picture) and I'm stuck on whether to keep the design very simple with an engraved outline or try to add detail?
The current masters have just the outline in place (attached picture M1) but I mocked up a quick (and unpolished) template version as a visual guide where I tried to add more detail (attached picture M2).
I'm operating at the limit of my artistic skill and it's all being done by hand so I'm aware that it's not perfect but any advice/suggestions are appreciated.
The shoulders are 4mm wide and roughly 12mm long, the engraving currently done is approx 0.5mm wide (done with a needle point).
(I still need to fashion the setting prongs down, slim the band down to ~2.5 ish mm and put in the draining hole at the bottom of the setting and clean up the whole thing, probably up to about 3000 grit paper).
Thanks, Kitchen