Design Solutions.... a 'what if' case

[ah2bqat]

OK, so say I have a new little project in mind. 

Assume it has a little pear  involved along with a pendant.  So I have some questions.  Y'all KNOW I'm imagination challenged and can't picture stuff well in my mind.  I'm pretty fixed on yellow gold, tho.  It's my favorite.  So please add your  , and any mockups or pictures you think might help.

So I like the idea of a prong-set sliding pendant, like SV's Bunny in her first incarnation.  BUT, The stone wouldn't be much bigger than Bunny, so she'd probably flip, too. 

So what about something like http://rockdiamond.c...pear-diamond-pendant?

Could the round be a slider? Would the weight of the pear dangle keep it from flipping?  Should it be white or light yellow?  Wait for one with fluor or not?  Did I mention the pear has fluor?

Or what about using a single little asscher, set on it's ear, instead of a round?  How would that look with a gorgeous, soft white pear?

[Mrs Mitchell]

I have a bezelled pear hanging from a bezelled RB, with some gorgeous little DBTY on the chain. It's one of my favourite things and I highly recommend it. Simple, sleek and incredibly blingy for its size - oh how I love that necklace. It's just right. 

I like your asscher idea too, though. I love a step cut!

[oldmancoyote]

Mechanically it's going to work too. Particularly if you keep the pear rigidly linked to the RB or Asscher (or just free to swing but not rotate). I suspect if the pear is small and it's mounted completely loose it may turn.

[clgwli]

I have to ask more about this pear.  What size is it and what color are you talking about?  I love to picture things (and create pictures of things) but I am curious how little/big this guy is and if we are dealing with certain ranges of color.

I am not sure I can come up with an asscher small enough to play with, but after my son is in bed, I'll play

[SaoriViola]

i love the idea of a round with the pear.  to me, the beauty of a pear is it's organic soft lines, and i like how a round diamond would play off the differences btwn a round and a pear. 

if you like the look of the chain linking the top and bottom stones and want the look of a sliding pendant (w/o the problem of flipping) why not connect the chain to the top stone behind it, instead of on the sides like the necklace you linked to?  am i imagining something that's possible or not?  i think it's possible...

[ah2bqat]

Erm....it's 3420.

[clgwli]

Erm....it's 3420.

LOL lovely choice!!!  I'll see what I can do tonight and come up with a few options  

[ah2bqat]

I couldn't HELP myself.    It was lust at first sight!    I tried to resist and found my willpower swept away.     I saw the price and almost cried.    David called about the pearls, and WHAMO!   THE BLOO JAY is MINE!  BHAWHAHAHA!!

I am gonna be in sooooooo much trouble!  

[SaoriViola]

damn ah2 you move fast!  you were right to do so though, she almost made me cry too!  oh man, congrats congrats, too pretty.  i think a light yellow round up top would accentuate the blue whiteness of the pear. are you thinking yellow gold for the chain and white for the prongs?  maybe yellow prongs on the pear would make it flash green tho?  how cool would that be?

[clgwli]

I was about to ask you if you thought of yellow for up top too.

The boys are eating strawberries so I did this so quick.  No setting for it, just the two shapes together.  I hope it gives an idea.

Actually I quite like the step cut with it.  I wasn't sure I would at first.

[webmistress]

That's a nice solution. And David just got some pinks. Sapphire would also be nice as the round stone.

[oldmancoyote]

The Asscher looks pink, and the pear blue. Now, that would be a combo...

[clgwli]

Here's a yellow combo with a princess, all bezel.

I need to go (son is done with shower) but I can play more tonight

[Foxylady]

How funny is that I was looking at that diamond yesterday and thinking Jean would love that, congrates Jean its stunning, I can't think of anyone nicer to get such a beautiful diamond.

Foxylady 

[clgwli]

Sorry about the crudeness of the last one.  I admit I wasn't able to spend time to make the bezel look even.

Honestly after that pinkish asscher I can't think of anything better.  It wasn't meant to be pink when I swiped it from some sold earrings, but I just loved how it looked and didn't unpink it after.

I think I saw some squarish ones in that pink parcel.  Also I think I saw a tapered baguette.  You could do a pear like this.

http://rockdiamond.c...ette-diamond-pendant

I'll try to do it now though I don't have a good picture of the pink to use.

[clgwli]

Normally I wouldn't color retouch any of the diamonds I find off of this site, but I can tell that there is a blue hue to the pink parcels (assuming they are resting on white) and when I copied a pink over it looked blue.

So... it's maybe not accurate and I have zero idea of the size, but you could inquire about that pink tapered baguette and see if it would work with proportions to create this

[GIAGirl]

I do like the pear dangled from a round, but I like a little more space between them.

[Sparkalin]

Congratulations to you.  What a beautiful diamond!  You are a quick one indeed.  I'm so happy we'll get to see that pretty sweet pear in a finished piece.   I love the fluorescence, she looks blue!      

Linda

[Sparkly-OCD]

Wow Ah2bqat! That was a DSA!

I prefer a bezel set RB above a pear on prongs.  If you go with a bezel, ask to have the bezel constructed like the necklace in the picture.  This necklace was made by DBL and the top and the bottom diamonds are soldered together as one unit.

A shallow light weight bezel with a tab will allow the pear to flip and twist.  I know this first hand because my FDB pendant was done with a shallow bezel with a tab and a jump ring attaching the FDB to the bezel. That 2.01ct FDB Princess, along with the bezel RB were never facing the right direction.  Currently, my FDB Princess is being re-done as this pendant.  I have other diamond pendants set with "deep" bezels and they do not flip or twist.

Your pear is so cool with that strong blue fluorescence. I would need to play around with different diamonds and gemstones to see which looked best, because I can't picture any particular color with your pear.

[GracefulLion]

Congratulations!!!!  I saw that one and loved it too and I am so happy for you!

I don't own the pear pictured here anymore ( ), but it was accidentally made with prongs instead of a bezel on the rb and I was soooo happy with the resulting look.  The pear was not fixed, but neither it nor the rb ever flipped.  It also had a very clever bale behind the rb, with a chain that could close at either 16 or 18 inches.  Did I mention I wish I had it back??

Love the photoshop with the asscher BTW!

[djm195]

WOW! Nice buy.

And btw, I really love the idea of that pendant. What about a white South Sea pearl with white diamonds and the blue pear suspended from the bottom. Then you can pair them with white South Sea earrings and have a cool set.  The chain would slide on the diamond collar which is around the pearl, as pictured below.

The scale would have to be 3:1 (or 2:1) with the pearl 1/3rd to 1/2 the diameter of the pear.  You might have to put a small diamond melee halo around the pear to get the scale right and tie it in with the pearl collar. The pear shaped diamond will mimick the smaller pear-shaped opening around the pearl.  I love repeating patterns. Does any of this make sense?

        

[Awestruck]

These are gemstones but they give a couple of design ideas which could be adapted.

[clgwli]

I love seeing all these ideas.  This was my last one.  Do a necklace similar to these earrings except flipped color

http://rockdiamond.c...s-pear-shape-diamond

[Awestruck]

This is a pendant I had made a while ago. The centre stone is approx .50cwt just to give you an idea of size. I had it set on a ring within an outer circle of diamonds and dropping from another small RB hanging below a small cluster which is fixed to a chain. The only stone which moves is the .50ct RB and it catches the light beautifully and doesn`t flip. It might give you an idea of how this size of stone looks when it`s set. Sorry about the poor quality pics but it`s a dull day here.

[ah2bqat]

I have a bezelled pear hanging from a bezelled RB, with some gorgeous little DBTY on the chain. It's one of my favourite things and I highly recommend it. Simple, sleek and incredibly blingy for its size - oh how I love that necklace. It's just right.  

Izzat your rose cut diamond, Miz M?  I love that baby!

Wow!  Thanks for all the input, guys.  This is really wonderful.  I should have known you'd have a million pendants I'd like, Lynne.  I do appreciate your taste in jewelry.  

GL, how could you bear to part with that pendant?!?  I love the idea of having the ability to wear it 16 or 18" long.  And I do like the yellow and white combination, even tho mine's in reverse.

Sparkly, I can't wait to see the FDB pendant under reconstruction.  Your point is well taken.  Bunny flipped.  Your 2ct FDB flipped.  Maybe I can't have a slider as the top stone if I want prongs.  Maybe it needs to be fixed, but not so you can see the connecting rings.

clwgli, thank you for the mock ups. They really do help.  Could you please try for a prong set round with the drop pear on a ring, but no 'ears' to be seen on the round.  Just the chain ending at the round?  Sort of like Sparkly's bezel set, but no bezel on the stones? Or maybe more like a reverse of GL's pear pendant, but with a jump ring between the round and the pear?

If money were no object, I'd be breaking up D's set of little round blues and using the .12 lt blue as my round.

WEIGHT: 0.12ct
SHAPE: Round Brilliant
COLOR: Fancy Light Blue
CLARITY: I1
MEASUREMENTS: 3.22 - 3.20 x 1.96 mm
TOTAL DEPTH: 60.9%
FLUORESCENCE: MEDIUM BLUE
GIA COLOR REPORT #: 16824637
YUM!

But it is, because I want this before 2012.  So no blue or pink round for me.  No halos, and sorry GG, no pave.  No similar sized yellow pears (believe me, clgwli, I have been debating that .72 fat bottomed yellow pear with extreme yellow fluor) http://rockdiamond.c...ol-fluoro-gia--r3392.  

I think it would be cool to find a little yellow with yellow fluor or a little white with blue fluor.  I just don't know if the asscher would be big enough to even see.   So is the glitter vs sparkle a good thing, or just stick with an RBC?

After looking at some of the pendants you guys have shared, I know I want the pear to dangle so it can move, but perhaps with a single round loop as connector so it can't flip.

And where the bezels are really cool, I think what I'm striving for is the illusion of the diamonds suspended with no support, so that would mean prong set, top and bottom.  Maybe the pear having white gold prongs, with the remainder yellow, unless we go asscher or white RBC, in which case that would have white prongs, too.

I wish I could see the pear with a .25 asscher and again with a .15 round.  Either way, I think we're talking about a top stone in the 3 mm range, with the pear dangling at 8.25.  + the length of the connecting rings, maybe a total of 13mm in length.  Not too big.  

Anybody with tiny bitty asschers who can give  a recommendation about how they look, IRL, from a distance?