platinum or white gold, for engagement ring setting.

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I love white gold personally... Besides, if you ever get leprosy and bonk your head and get sucked into "The Land" you'll need that white gold to defeat Lord Foul.




/me wonders how many people will get the reference. Clue: Thomas Covenant

Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill khabaal!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: zaku
i think i will go with platinum. it is $125 more than the white gold version. with a $3000 budget i can get a .7c, ideal cut, VS2, G color from bluenile.com for about $2600

WRONG!

With a $3k budget you can get an x800XT PE + a .6c and all that other stuff

 

[whoiswes]

yeah, that diamond you're looking at is overpriced.

just finished my ring purchase last week (picking up the completed product today, in fact).

i ended up with a 0.620 VS2 G, ideal cut, with a HCA score of 1 and excellent in all four categories. the ring is a custom job that my local jeweler made for me (kind of a torsion mount half bezel wraparound).

the ring appraised at just over $3000 - i paid $2000 for everything.

BTW, dirtcheapdiamonds is where i picked up my stone. blue nile had the same stones, but they were more expensive, often by several hundred dollars.

good luck - it sounds like you've done your research, but don't get hung up on that seemingly all-important carat weight. get a stone that's cut properly and it will look bigger than it actually is almost all the time.

/popping the question next week

 

[Red]

I spent 3Gs on a white gold, invisible set princess cut diamond with baguettes (spelling?). The invisible set makes the center diamonds look like one, giant, 2 or 3 carat stone. People are ALWAYS grabbing her hand and asking me WTF I do for a living.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: MidasKnight
My wife and I went with White Gold. We were able to get allot more diamond for the ring that way for our price range. With the Plat we would have settled with only half carrot but with the white we were able to go 1 an 3/4 carrot diamond for the set.

wow! exactly how much more expsive is plat than gold?

 

[Modeps]

I went the platinum route, custom made setting by the brews in jewtown. They know their stuff.

 

[austin316]

whats the going price for a nice engagement ring?

$3,000?

 

[vood0g]

i went with platinum, on my wife's setting. we also have platinum wedding bands. it feels different than white gold.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Red
I spent 3Gs on a white gold, invisible set princess cut diamond with baguettes (spelling?). The invisible set makes the center diamonds look like one, giant, 2 or 3 carat stone. People are ALWAYS grabbing her hand and asking me WTF I do for a living.

And you answer: Paying off her ring.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: whoiswes
the ring appraised at just over $3000 - i paid $2000 for everything.

The appraisal doesn't mean a whole lot to anyone other than insurance agents. I agree that Bluenile is somewhat expensive, but I would be quite surprised if their rings didn't also appraise $800-$1000 above their retail price.

Not directed solely at whoiswes, more of a general observation:
The one thing I hate about engagement rings and weddings in general is that everyone who has done it before believes they are an expert. Yet the vast majority of self-proclaimed experts have done it ONCE! A few people have done it two or even three times, but that still hardly makes one an expert.

 

[Lazy8s]

Originally posted by: Veramocor
Also if your planning on doing any work with chemicals the platinum is the gold standard, no pun intended, when it comes to inert metals. For example mercury will react with your gold ring, but your platinum ring would be fine.

lol I think at that point I'd be more worried about mercury reacting with the finger the ring is on and the person the finger is attached to.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Not directed solely at whoiswes, more of a general observation:
The one thing I hate about engagement rings and weddings in general is that everyone who has done it before believes they are an expert. Yet the vast majority of self-proclaimed experts have done it ONCE! A few people have done it two or even three times, but that still hardly makes one an expert.

Very true. I educated myself on this after my first. Once you start looking at stone after stone you start to make you own preferences. Diamondtalk.com is a great place to start. I met with one of the main guys there that happened to have an office in Boca Raton. Spent a day going through his rock collection and learning.

 

[blakeatwork]

For the engagement ring, I went with white gold. It was a real spur of the moment type of thing, as I was walking by the jewellery shop, and happened to see what looked like an antique style setting. The price was right, I picked it up, and went from there..

Fast forward to last year... the wife and I chose these for our wedding bands... We had orginally considered a platinum type, but for double the cost, it wasn't something we could justify...

We had also actually looked at titanium as a band, ut the colouring was just a lil too dark for us..

 

[PhoenixOrion]

platinum: higher retaining value but scratches fast (need to be polished once a year or more often)

white gold: very sturdy and doesn't scratch as easy, very affordable compared to platinum.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I love white gold personally... Besides, if you ever get leprosy and bonk your head and get sucked into "The Land" you'll need that white gold to defeat Lord Foul.




/me wonders how many people will get the reference. Clue: Thomas Covenant

Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill khabaal!

:beer:

(I thought it was "kabaal"... )

What's funny is they never say in the books what the 7th word is, even though they're the "7 words of power".

 

[alkemyst]

They alluded one time it may have been Nekrimah - Vain the Urvile. I don't know if even Donaldson has a 7th word.

OBTW in case you are wondering:

The Third Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Runes of the Earth (2004) <--- still not out yet but apparently it's been written.
Fatal Revenant
Shall Pass Utterly
The Last Dark

 

[BigSmooth]

I went with platinum. I liked the weight and durability of it and I liked the color more than white gold (platinum has a slightly "grayer" color to it and never looks yellow at all).

 

[psydancerqt]

i have white gold. i can take it in anytime to get it fixed up.

zaku, what shape of diamond are you getting?

 

[mavs55]

platinum is the way to go. don't cheap out.

 

[rh71]

I don't like to do things half-assed (especially for once-in-a-lifetime objects) so I'd go for platinum unless I really can't afford it at the time.

 

[Azraele]

White gold.

 

[Zombie]

I picked white gold becase

1) it was half the price of platinum
2) I was told white gold is easier to repolish than platinum
3) Platinum is heavier than white gold

Originally posted by: zaku
how much does it cost to refinish and how often does it have to be? would you have to refinish platinum?

All respectable jewlers will give your free lifetime servicing. In my case the place covers cleaning, repolishing and even replacing prongs(little things that hold the diamond) if they ever break

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: DurocShark
I love white gold personally... Besides, if you ever get leprosy and bonk your head and get sucked into "The Land" you'll need that white gold to defeat Lord Foul.




/me wonders how many people will get the reference. Clue: Thomas Covenant

Melenkurion abatha! Duroc minas mill khabaal!

<mhoram>My friends, I have a secret of power I wish to share with you.</mhoram>

 

[JDub02]

Out of curiosity, what's wrong with yellow gold? personal preference? my g/f keeps telling me that i should buy her a ring.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: JDub02
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with yellow gold? personal preference? my g/f keeps telling me that i should buy her a ring.

nothing is "wrong" with yellow gold, if anything yellow gold is the standard, or the classic choice....the only difference between white and yellow is that yellow uses copper wheras white uses nickle and in some cases a rhodium coating...if anything yellow was far more popular and prevalent, it is only when platinum comes into vogue that white metals take off....