• Edymnion
    • 8 years 11 months ago
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    		 Okay, this probably won't happen anytime soon, but I've been thinking about commissioning a piece of custom jewelry to be made for me.

    You see, I have a small iron meteorite about the size of the last joint of your thumb. Its 92% iron, 7% nickle, and 1% assorted. Any meteoric iron with more than 6.5% nickle will, when cut and treated with acid, reveal an incredible crystaline pattern that resulted from where the iron alloy in it was allowed to slowly cool over millions of years. And frankly, I want a piece of jewelry who's center stone is older than the Earth itself.

    If you're into this sort of thing (I'm not, I just find it to be cool trivia), meteoric iron is supposed to be a bane of demons, as it was a metal that fell from the heavens. Iron itself is long been a symbol of power and judgement, and as an incranation of pure earth, making it a bane to the fey. I don't think I'm going to have the ring take any of that into account in appearance, but its fun to know.

    For the ring itself, I definately want to stay away from gold, even white gold, as I find it to be rather tacky. So, that leaves me with sterling silver (a metal long revered for it's purity, is called a metal of the moon, and is bane to anything impure, traditionally werewolves and vampires), and is supposed to enhance the power of whatever stone is set in it.

    The other option is platinum, which doesn't seem to have any specific meaning, but was often mistaken for silver, and then later known as "white gold" before that meaning was given to the gold/silver alloy with the white hue.

    So, what does that have to do with you guys?
    I'm looking for some inspiration as to how it should all look. What shape to have them cut the meteoric iron, if I should let them acid wash it to show the crystaline structure or leave the scarred and pitted face showing it's immense age, what the band should look like, etc.

    Go wild, find pictures, tell me what you think a ring designed to showcase one of the oldest objects in our solar system should look like!

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    • mikee_kid12
      • 8 years 11 months ago
      • Posts: 640
      		 Two snakes winding around each other but having an opening between them, and the opening having a spade or diamond crystaline. I don't really know, this ones a toughy....
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      • jamigram
        • 8 years 11 months ago
        • Posts: 1965
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        		 Use tiny mirrors to make the stone seem larger and light it up in the sun!

        Seen it done but struggling to find a picture
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        • nippythefish
          • 8 years 11 months ago
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          Señor Bag Of Crap wrote:


          ROFL.
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          • System
            • 8 years 11 months ago
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            		 You could incorperate your love for the Thundercats by having the stone cut into the likeness of the Thundercats symbol and having them acidwash it. Make the ring a signet, with no decoration so the the eye will be directly drawn to the stone.


            For the metal us platinum, it will not tarnish like silver.
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            • Jomero
              • 8 years 11 months ago
              • Posts: 105
              		 You say you don't like gold, but don't see anything really cool about platinum. Allow me to illustrate the coolness of gold and platinum.

              You like the idea of your ring being older than the earth itself. Well, there is a reason why gold never loses it's luster (it never rusts... even gold boullion still shines like new after having been under the ocean for hundreds of years). Gold and platinum could not have been formed upon the earth by natural means. They were a part of the earth when it was first formed. The only way gold and platinum can be created is when the energy/materials is released from a star when it goes supernova.

              So, gold and platinum was originally part of a star.

              Since you like the idea of your ring being older than the earth, and you don't like gold, then platinum is obviously the next best choice.

              As for designs, I can't really say. I'm no jewelry guy. I just happen to know that bit of trivia about gold and platinum.
              "When magic is explained, it is no longer magic."
              -Haggar the Witch, Voltron
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