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Hey all- I just wanted to post here to brag about the beautiful jewelry my wife just received! Our own David Truong built her a custom ring jacket for her wedding ring. He also mounted her grandmother's 1 carat diamond in a pendant on a beautiful chain. He made the process of figuring out what my wife wants and giving it to her much easier than I thought it could possibly be (she is a CV-ICU nurse and very, very particular). From arranging to get the wedding ring and diamond sent to him to getting the finished product safely returned, we never had a worry or an issue. Words can't describe how beautiful they are. Pictures would help, so I am hoping David chimes in and posts some pics  Thanks again, David! Bruce PS: And he came in under his estimate. Amazing. "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | ||
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My Time is Yours |
Thank you so much for allowing us to make such special pieces!!!   God, Family, Country. | |||
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| SF Jake |
Wow....those are spectacular! Very nice ________________________ Those who trade liberty for security have neither | |||
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Ammoholic |
Forget the jewelry, I head that dude has TP!  Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
^^^ You’re sick! ;-) ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Backstory: The diamond is from Katie's mother's mother's ring. Katie's mom wore it until giving it to Katie. The pendant is just her style and now it will get worn a lot. A new life for a family heirloom  Thanks again. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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| Ammoholic |
That's from David's FB.  Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Holy shit! James Woods just shared that photo on his Twitter! Somebody post link to David's shop in the Twitter thread! Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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God will always provide |
The pendant is very nice and I'm sure will be worn with pride of ancestry...That ring is simply gorgeous ! "I will not" be showing the wife this one. | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
Is it just me ? The second item looks like it has sharpie marks all over it... I’m on.an iPad ... "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
The main stone on her ring is a quartz with black streaks in it. You're not seeing things. She wanted unique and imperfect. I think it's more striking than a plain, perfect diamond.Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Member |
I first saw it and said 'tourmaline, cool!' Now, it's been almost 40 years since I first saw tourmaline, so I may have been mistaken, but I then looked it up, and voilà, tourmalined quartz. Congrats, those are some awesome pieces. “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” | |||
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| Bodhisattva |
David, you are a great artist. | |||
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| Hillbilly Wannabe |
It may be rutile inclusion, or rutilated quartz. | |||
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| semi-reformed sailor |
Thanks guys, thought my tablet was messing up the pics. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Cynic |
I was showing my girlfriend the photos. She loves it and told me it was rutilated quartz _______________________________________________________ And no, junior not being able to hold still for 5 seconds is not a disability. | |||
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Who else? |
Damn. Just damn. My eyes watered up. That ring is for a princess. | |||
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Telecom Ronin |
Amazing work....as always | |||
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