How to Design Your Own Pinky Ring
A pinky ring is worn on the fourth finger of either hand. Both men and women wear this accessory. Someone can wear a pinky ring to show allegiance to a certain group or organization. More often, however, people wear pinky rings solely for fashion purposes. When designing a pinky ring, you must consider sizing, because it will be too small to fit any other fingers.
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Find a jeweler who creates custom jewelry. A jeweler can provide guidance during the ring-designing process.
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Choose a ring setting, based on how intricate you want the pinky ring to look.
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Decide on the type of metal you want to use. Your choices include yellow gold, white gold, platinum, titanium and sterling silver.
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Choose the stones you want for your pinky ring. Among the stones commonly used in rings are diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets, zircons and amethysts.
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Decide how you would like the stone cut and its clarity. The more flawless a ring is, the more it will cost. Cuts can include round, princess, emerald, radiant, oval, pear, marquis and heart. Clarity ranges from F to LI3. F is flawless. L indicates large flaws.
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Pick the size of the stone. Stone sizes can range from .10 carats to 6 carats.
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If you wish, pick a word or phrase to be engraved on the inside of the pinky ring.
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Review and finalize details of the ring. Make any adjustments necessary.
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- Photo Credit the ring image by Andruxa from Fotolia.com
