23 points

It looks like a giant whitehead pimple lol

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9 points

I never would’ve seen that without your comment. Now I can’t unsee it!

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28 points

Who is more pitiable? Him or the woman who dated him?

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35 points

The people who believe it

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9 points

Are you saying people would tell lies?! On the internet?!

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4 points

No, I would never say something like that!

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3 points

Shhh, you’re ruining my fun.

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4 points

I just had this thought where what if it wasn’t a real date, like she went on a group outing and he concocted this whole thing as a “romantic gesture”?

Maybe I’m reading too much incel lore.

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120 points

I feel like the jeweler should have stopped him.

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108 points
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The customer is always right in matters of taste. He wants an ugly ring? Jeweler should try and steer him away… but if homey is dead set, get paid in advance and make sure they sign off on the design.

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46 points

I mean to be fair 99% of those rings look ugly.

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30 points

I’m with you on this - I think most jewelery is gaudy AF.

But eye of the beholder and all.

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5 points

Yea, I’ve definitely seen “normal” rings that this one looks better than.

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Yeah, but like… Bruh, are you sure she’s as into Iron Man as you are? I know it was your first date, but she’s going to have to wear this everywhere. She’s going to show it off to her friends and family and coworkers. This bright red abomination that looks like it came in a box of cereal, that’s going to cost at a minimum $50 thousand dollars. Are. You. Sure?

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She could have always asked for a different ring. This ring wasn’t what was wrong with that relationship. it is hilariously awful though.

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10 points

I am always wrong in matters of taste. This is why I get other people to do all tastes for me. This includes my wardrobe

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11 points

in matters of taste

Oh my god I just felt my chest release slightly with a tension I didn’t even know was there.

I never hear the full sentence, people always just cut it off 5 words in for some reason…

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2 points

people customers always just cut it off 5 words in for some reason…

Fixed that for ya. ;)

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33 points

The only thing that is real is that ring

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12 points

Who is to say he didn’t? He probably told him this isn’t going to work out the way he thinks it will, but Delusional Man said, “Bet” and gave him a bag of money.

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5 points

Good point, you’re probably right.

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2 points

Also look at the amount of people just in this thread who got some lord of the rings prop or whatever and loved it - women not being a homogeneous block of feminine virtue actually have their own opinions and taste, they are to the shock of many here actually just people and are often dumb, tasteless, and obsessed by things like marvel or that one fantasy book that got popular.

Jeweller was* probably like ‘oh another client wants something ugly for their nerd wife, well at least it’s not disney ip this time…’

*yes I acknowledge this was almost certainly made by a nerd jeweler as a show piece and nor brought by oop as a wedding ring.

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29 points
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Customer: Did you do it?

Jeweler: Yes

Customer: What did it cost?

Jeweler: Everything

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1 point

I’ve got a friend who’s a jeweler and if he’s asked to engrave something where there’s a typo he won’t say a thing, he does it as is and keeps a copy of the original to show the client if they come back, it’s not his place to question them.

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That sounds kind of petty to be honest. I’d just send an email or leave a voicemail and wait a day as long as I can still meet whatever deadline I had set. Everyone makes mistakes and it seems like it would be hard on everyone involved to have to do it over again.

If it’s a name, then yeah I wouldn’t question them though lol

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15 points

That’s a shit jeweler just begging for less return customers.

Ain’t gotta make a big deal of it either. Just ask, “Okay so you want, ‘No ragrets’ engraved?”

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8 points

Yeah, this reminds me of the time I asked a hair stylist for a mullet and she refused. Also, a good tattoo artist won’t tattoo something that offends their sensibilities.

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5 points

Jeweler was right to take his money.

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4 points

Sure, he made the ring as asked. But it’s conceivable to me that the customer only talked to one person about his plan, because any sane person would have tried to talk him out of it. And the jeweler could have made a different choice, and then maybe he would be making anniversary rings, or rings for her jealous friends. Instead, there’s a viral image with his stamp on it, and I just realized this is all probably fake anyway. I’m not a smart man.

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3 points

Best case scenario then. The mark and the conman both pay

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35 points

I don’t know what you’re talking about. Art Masters Jewelry is amazing. Just look at this masterpiece:

More of them here: https://artmastersjewelry.com/product-category/engagement-rings/

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18 points

That would be incredibly inconvenient to wear, but I don’t think it looks terrible.

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14 points

Yeah I mean come on, this is absolutely stunning /s

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8 points

Well yeah that one’s ugly.

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21 points

That ring is going to drug and rob me and be gone when I wake up in the morning

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3 points

thats gonna hurt Like hell, look at those sharp edges.

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Ouah… 138 pages of rings ? I’ve only checked a few and didn’t find anything I found nice.

Won’t waste more of my life to see if there actually is though.

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43 points

It is pretty, but:

  1. Colored rhodium is garbo, that plating will wear off faster than you’d think. Regular ass white rhodium is already the most expensive precious metal, 1 gram suspended in plating solution is nearly $500 COST. I’ve literally never heard of a store having anything other than white on hand.

  2. ALLLLL of their products are only represented with 3d renderings. This is a HUGE red flag. If someone isn’t even bothering to have physical models of their products made, they have no way of guaranteeing the quality of those products. It looks snaggy as fuck, and it probably is because they never actually made one to try on!

  3. Jesus christ imagine wearing that thing. The tongues on those snakes would be fucked IMMEDIATELY. The spikes on top of those prongs would get absolutely ruined in between ripping apart every piece of fabric you moved it near. If you ever need ONE prong retipped you’ll either have to lose the spikes on all of them, or just deal with them mismatching. That WHOLE ASS HEAD is so atypical and seated strangely that even IF you managed to wear it for years, long enough to necessitate the kind of general maintenance all jewelry eventually needs, you’ll end up getting shrugged at and told “yeah I don’t know how anyone could work on this”. Even IF you got someone to work on it, that finish is gonna need touched up, which is AGAIN, something no one outside of the manufacturer will do for a reasonable price. There’s not even a good way to strip off the existing rhodium, so you’d end up with black shit stuck in all the crevasses.

I think they’re very striking, but I swear to god y’all, my store will get at least one flyer every week from some new manufacturer with a line EXACTLY like this. Buncha whacky way-off-the-beaten-path design choices, there’s no actual pictures of anything, and the markup is frankly embarrassing. Regular ass jewelry stores like mine could have this shit custom made as a complete 1-off for LESS than what they’re selling it for, don’t buy jewelry online folks 💖

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12 points

Holy balls, I didn’t even zoom in to look at the prongs on that serpent ring. That’s the kind of design made by someone who only ever designs shit and never has to work on the physical product. It looks cool but no one will ever bother to attempt to recreate that if they need to do maintenance. Plus I could easily see the little circles just, bending off and OOP, there goes the stone. There’s a reason prongs are designed the way they are.

Fucking design nerds 🙄 and I say that as someone with more design experience than practical experience - but at least I fucking listen to actual bench jewelers when I do my CAD work.

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6 points

you’d end up with black shit stuck in all the crevasses.

Crevices. A crevasse is a deep fissure such as in a glacier.

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4 points

Yeah but crev-asses is funnier.

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2 points

Hey, I have a jewelry question totally unrelated to the post I’d like to ask, if you don’t mind. I wanna do a custom articulated ring for my fiance (I know, please hold your applause for my incredible taste). Is this a design I should work out with a jeweler, or do I need a machinist first, and then a jeweler to pretty up whatever they come up with?

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Coming from a jeweler’s perspective I’d say always start with the jeweler, but I may be a bit biased hahaha

Even if they can’t come up with the design you’re looking for, hopefully they can at least explain the limitations for such a design. From there you could have anyone with an eye for mechanical stuff take a crack at it. If you could get a 3d model of all the parts, modern casters will just print it in lost wax and cast the parts for you. Ideally the jeweler sets that up for you.

The biggest expense should be the casting. Gold is the highest it’s ever been right now, I’d recommend 10k yellow or 14k white for the strength. The actual assembly will probably be a little pricey, but a good jeweler will work out a cost by pricing individual welds and whatnot. “Assemble this custom one off ring” sounds like it should be a hugely expensive thing, but if it’s just 5 welds and a couple hinges, realistically that would only be a couple hundred as a repair job.

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17 points

Jfc

So, my husband is a jeweler. We recently started our own business (mostly repairs right now). These things are largely poorly designed and way overpriced for what they are. Plus, there’s a lot of bullshit like “14k black gold”, which isn’t a thing. It’s possibly 14k white or yellow gold with black rhodium plating, which will wear off in about 2 years and need replating. And there’s one with a 1.5ish carat diamond and a few melee marquis, with no other detailing or anything particularly interesting other than the “14k black gold” bullshit, and they’re trying to sell it for over $10,000 usd. Fucking LOL. This site is trash.

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whenever someone brings something to our store with worn off black rodium, we’ll do the regular clean/check/polish and then just use an industrial black marker to fill it in. we don’t charge for it, and it’ll actually last a long time if it doesn’t see heavy wear!

the alternative is spending at least $400 for something you’ll use like 4 times a year. PLUS you’ll have to charge for it, and no one wants to pay for a full rhodium just to replace what is most likely a single tiny accent of their jewelry hahahah

keep at it with the repair work, that’s the lifeblood of a good jewelry store. people like the store they bought their trendy new ring at, but they LOVE the store that made their old ring new again.

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0 points

What the fuck are these things? 🤦‍♂️

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63 points

Guy must be really poor because this looks like something that cost 20 bucks on Wish.com.

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43 points

He didn’t say what he made in 18 months. He might just sell Santa themed toilet seat covers during the holidays and isn’t aware of how to advertise.

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