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Emerald ring commission
Just completed this ring today after starting it several weeks ago. Its taken so long due to my day job getting in the way, working night shifts last week and so on. How inconvenient eh!
Its made in Argentium and is set with a cabochon emerald. The bezel is built like a tank ( but not heavy ) and was cast using cuttlefish, and I described the technique of how I do it a few weeks ago on the forum. Pierced at the back to allow some light through, and the bezel is blended into the shank instead of sitting on the top. The shank itself had the grooves put in using the lathe.
Critique and heckling as welcome as always 
Cheers,
Nick
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Looks nice Nick. Quite often you'll find emeralds & other colours look abit better in yellow settings but...
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Lovely Nick, really groovy!
Sue
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A lot of work went into that and you should feel well rewarded.
My comment like Chris, is not with the piece, but with the presentation.
You are the expert, and you have given it the blurred background beloved of macro photographers. That even has a special name which I have forgotten.
I for one would prefer greater depth of focus, to appraise the shank and internal surfaces and so I suspect wound a potential client. Regards Dennis.
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Fair comment Dennis. And a good point too. Thankyou and maybe I'll take more photos with greater dof next time to compare.
Cheers,
Nick
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Cheers Chris.. all down to price point and cost, hence silver and not gold.
Never set an Emerald before either so I was careful due to it being a soft stone.
Nick
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That's lovely Nick I like the watery photo too, ingenious.
How do you push over your tank bezel, by hand or do you have a hammer action handpiece?
Faith
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looks great, nice job on the setting
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Nice job Nick, thanks for sharing, it always livens up the forum to have pretty pictures to look at 
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You're right Faith, I use a hammer handpiece. Same as was used to set the large Trillion sapphire in my other post a while ago.
Nick.
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