Need a little advice (long)
So, my e-ring broke...i didn't have the traditional prong setting. so i just have two vertical metal pieces that holds the diamond portion to the band.
Anyhow, my dad is a jeweler in the diamond district and knows a lot of good quality jewelers. I had hinted to my FH to have my ring done by one of them. My sister was even in on it and took him to one of them. But the quote was higher than he wanted because the jeweler didn't have that setting already made. So they were going to custom make the ring, casting it as a 1 piece ring (which entails making a wax mold...then making the ring from that. It's a pretty extensive process).
So FH's friend was recently married and she recommended her family jeweler in chinatown. he gave my FH a much cheaper quote and FH ended up going with him.
Well, I discovered two things with the ring. First of all, it was originally stamped 'PT 900' (90% platinum). But someone had stamped a big '5' over the middle zero, making it look like 'PT 950' (95% platinum). We think that since the original pic FH showed him showed that stamping, they tried to copy it. But i KNOW it was stamped on there afterwards because the '5' was stamped on UPSIDE DOWN.
They also made the ring in separate pieces. So they didn't go through the whole casting process. They just took an existing eternity band, cut the top part out and sodered the prongs and the diamond halo onto it. This is a much easier and cheaper way of doing it (that's why the quote was lower).
So now FH's friend knows about the broken ring and she is going to take us back to her jeweler to fix. And i KNOW all they're going to do is soder it back on....but that won't fix anything...and it may just break again in another 3 months.
What I would really want is for us to go to one of my dad's friends to redo the setting as a 1 piece....but FH doesn't want to offend his friend by taking the ring elsewehre since she spent a lot of time and effort doing this for him (he was out of state, so she was the one driving from jersey into the city for him). She seems to be very willing to talk to/yell at her jeweler for us since she gives him a lot of business. She said this has never happened to anything she's bought from them before.
Should i give the chinatown jeweler one more chance to redo it....I will be there to demand it done as a 1 piece this time. I will also demand a written statement saying that we can return it if it breaks again.
Anyhow, my dad is a jeweler in the diamond district and knows a lot of good quality jewelers. I had hinted to my FH to have my ring done by one of them. My sister was even in on it and took him to one of them. But the quote was higher than he wanted because the jeweler didn't have that setting already made. So they were going to custom make the ring, casting it as a 1 piece ring (which entails making a wax mold...then making the ring from that. It's a pretty extensive process).
So FH's friend was recently married and she recommended her family jeweler in chinatown. he gave my FH a much cheaper quote and FH ended up going with him.
Well, I discovered two things with the ring. First of all, it was originally stamped 'PT 900' (90% platinum). But someone had stamped a big '5' over the middle zero, making it look like 'PT 950' (95% platinum). We think that since the original pic FH showed him showed that stamping, they tried to copy it. But i KNOW it was stamped on there afterwards because the '5' was stamped on UPSIDE DOWN.
They also made the ring in separate pieces. So they didn't go through the whole casting process. They just took an existing eternity band, cut the top part out and sodered the prongs and the diamond halo onto it. This is a much easier and cheaper way of doing it (that's why the quote was lower).
So now FH's friend knows about the broken ring and she is going to take us back to her jeweler to fix. And i KNOW all they're going to do is soder it back on....but that won't fix anything...and it may just break again in another 3 months.
What I would really want is for us to go to one of my dad's friends to redo the setting as a 1 piece....but FH doesn't want to offend his friend by taking the ring elsewehre since she spent a lot of time and effort doing this for him (he was out of state, so she was the one driving from jersey into the city for him). She seems to be very willing to talk to/yell at her jeweler for us since she gives him a lot of business. She said this has never happened to anything she's bought from them before.
Should i give the chinatown jeweler one more chance to redo it....I will be there to demand it done as a 1 piece this time. I will also demand a written statement saying that we can return it if it breaks again.
