One of our most popular engagement rings is the DM4527/JA. We receive many positive comments concerning the consistency of the design and quality as well as questions concerning how we accomplish this. We are happy to explain.There are several steps in the production. We begin by die striking the components. The shank is struck flat in two halves and head is struck singularly. Then both are trimmed of excess metal. Next, galleries are cut into the shank and we round up the half shanks. The parts are given to a crafts person who solders all three components together and drills holes in the shank shoulders at precise intervals and in the sides of the base of the head. The raw mounting undergoes its initial inspection.
The inside and bottom half of the shank and the head are hand polished and lapped in preparation for appropriate stamping (trademark, metal, stone quality and total weight) and stone setting; this leads to a second inspection.The ring's diamonds are “shared bead set” in the shank; a setter actually hand raises beads of metal over the girdles of the diamonds; these beads are raised at the 10, 2, 4 and 8 O’clock positions on the stones. The shared beads are the two each between the first and second, second and third and third and fourth stones. After securely setting the diamonds the setter shapes each bead individually and as uniformly as possible. There are two small diamonds “burnish set” into each side of the base of the JA head. Burnish setting, also called bezel setting, is accomplished by pushing metal completely over the entire girdle of a stone and trimming it to uniform width and depth.The next step in the creation of the DM4527 is hand engraving. Jabel's signature wheat pattern is applied to the upper half of the mounting as well as accenting the pattern with minute beading. Upon completion of setting and hand engraving the ring undergoes a third quality inspection.
The final operation is the finishing process. The non-engraved portion of the mounting is brought to lustrous sheen by the use of the proper buffing wheel and brushes along with the correct polishing rouge. Now it’s on to washing with an industrial ammonia solution in an ultrasonic tank, steam cleaning and blow drying. Yellow gold, pink gold, green gold and platinum pieces are now ready for final inspection. White gold pieces are subjected to rhodium plating, which whitens the metal even further, prior to final inspection.These steps are performed by our team of expert craftspeople. It is because of their commitment to producing superior quality jewelry, that Jabel is set apart from others and we can stand behind our heirloom quality jewelry.
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