Estate ring re-made as stacking rings

I thought I’d written about the genesis of this one, but I see I didn’t! As you know, I have a habit of taking on “remodeling” projects. I thought I’d share another one I finished recently with you.

It started with this ring—my client acquired it from an estate sale (and believe me, they got a deal on it, compared to if they’d bought the diamonds and gold new).

It started with a concept, a “bamboo” band, and use all the diamonds. What resulted, as you’ll see, what something a bit different. First, it was two rings using all the diamonds.

See! Suddenly it’s two rings :)

Now it’s 3 rings! And different colour metals! (all 14kt gold)

And…here’s the 3 finished rings, in one of any number of combinations!

I removed the stones, and swapped the gold ring, plus a bunch of other old/broken gold that my client had, for new gold that I added to and re-alloyed to make the rose and yellow alloys for casting. The white gold ring is palladium white gold, so I ordered that grain pre-made. One of the diamonds was damaged, so we decided to replace it with this very attractive orange sapphire for an extra pop of colour. The small diamonds were also reclaimed from another ring. So, it was almost entirely a reclamation and re-use project. And my client LOVED the final products.

If you have something languishing in your jewellery box that you’d love to have re-done in something more contemporary that you can love, it would be great to talk to you! Reach out to me on the contact page and let’s talk!