Re-setting the stone in my first and probably last attempt at designing for gold.
The goofy two-sided setting has to be pressed on with a fair bit of force, the cool-looking inclusions on this aquamarine were the parts least inclined to tolerate being crushed in a vise, and there’s a limited number of times I can do this before it messes the whole ring up so for a few years now I’ve been serially exploding rocks until I got this impractically oversized one to hold up. Figure we don’t wear these on the job anyway so it won’t matter, we’ll see how long before it snags on something and pops out but it took the buffer trying to eat it pretty well