While surfing the internet for the ideal diamond ring, you may discover many different web pages having the heading: “Design Your Own Diamond Ring.” With this type of service, customers can buy loose stones, shaped and tinted to their specifications, or craft a distinctive piece of jewelry from the selection of carats, settings, shapes and colors offered by the seller.
There are eleven distinct shapes to pick from: round, pear, oval, emerald, princess, marquis, radiant, triangle, heart, asscher and cushion. The less common shapes comprise the marquis, which is an oval that comes to a point on either end. The emerald shape is rectangular in design, the princess cut is a diamond shape and a radiant diamond is square. Asscher is an octagon with four short sides and four longer sides, and cushion shapes are rounded squares.
After choosing the ideal cut, the next course of action is to select the type of ring and setting. The band type varies from thick to thin banded, wide or narrow band, platinum, white gold and yellow gold. As a rule jewelers offer 60 to 80 different kinds of settings for the stone. Of course, while selecting the perfect stone, the customer needs to be aware of the Four “C’s”: clarity, carat, cut and color. Moreover, you will need to find out about the diamond’s certification. Certification indicates the quality of the stone and assists in establishing its worth.