Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> Round brilliant models are a dime a dozen, but I've never seen settings
> modeled, so I figured I would do it.  I'm satisfied with the prongs, but
> I don't know how these things attach to the ring.  (Web image searches
> haven't helped, because in most of the images, the gem blocked the base
> of the setting, and when this wasn't the case, the setting was way too
> fancy for my goal.)
>
> I have four models for the base of the setting.  Which do you think is
> the best, and do you have any better ideas?

I'll make it more difficult to decide by saying A or D instead of Thomas's B or
C.

I don't know anything about jewelry, especially rings, but I just always thought
diamonds or clear gems were placed onto a setting with a reflective underside.
Looking at pictures of ring settings just now it would seem to prove me mostly
wrong.

Many apparently have open space below the prongs, a hole in the ring itself, at
least for this type of setting. I guess that's to allow more light around it.
Maybe because light doesn't refract down and back up very easily??

Bob

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