whenever someone brings something to our store with worn off black rodium, we’ll do the regular clean/check/polish and then just use an industrial black marker to fill it in. we don’t charge for it, and it’ll actually last a long time if it doesn’t see heavy wear!

the alternative is spending at least $400 for something you’ll use like 4 times a year. PLUS you’ll have to charge for it, and no one wants to pay for a full rhodium just to replace what is most likely a single tiny accent of their jewelry hahahah

keep at it with the repair work, that’s the lifeblood of a good jewelry store. people like the store they bought their trendy new ring at, but they LOVE the store that made their old ring new again.

What’s fucked up is I DO actually like this one, minus all the random flush set bullshit on the sides

Coming from a jeweler’s perspective I’d say always start with the jeweler, but I may be a bit biased hahaha

Even if they can’t come up with the design you’re looking for, hopefully they can at least explain the limitations for such a design. From there you could have anyone with an eye for mechanical stuff take a crack at it. If you could get a 3d model of all the parts, modern casters will just print it in lost wax and cast the parts for you. Ideally the jeweler sets that up for you.

The biggest expense should be the casting. Gold is the highest it’s ever been right now, I’d recommend 10k yellow or 14k white for the strength. The actual assembly will probably be a little pricey, but a good jeweler will work out a cost by pricing individual welds and whatnot. “Assemble this custom one off ring” sounds like it should be a hugely expensive thing, but if it’s just 5 welds and a couple hinges, realistically that would only be a couple hundred as a repair job.

I’m not even a moba guy, but I’ve tried enough to know it’s very much so it’s own genre. Is there a single game that has a “moba mode”?

Seriously, I’m not trying to be an ass, but it’s like if you said “rts is a mode and not a genre”.

pretty short read, tl:dr people got fomo

So when OBGYNs fled Idaho in droves, was that because they were fake doctors who weren’t actually practicing medicine? Or was there something else at play maybe?

I think you’d be a lot happier if you weren’t bending backwards to believe misogynist trite.

“storytelling toilet skeleton” is actually a pretty good vocal warmup

yella rubies glistenin like PISS

It is pretty, but:

1. Colored rhodium is garbo, that plating will wear off faster than you’d think. Regular ass white rhodium is already the most expensive precious metal, 1 gram suspended in plating solution is nearly $500 COST. I’ve literally never heard of a store having anything other than white on hand.

2. ALLLLL of their products are only represented with 3d renderings. This is a HUGE red flag. If someone isn’t even bothering to have physical models of their products made, they have no way of guaranteeing the quality of those products. It looks snaggy as fuck, and it probably is because they never actually made one to try on!

3. Jesus christ imagine wearing that thing. The tongues on those snakes would be fucked IMMEDIATELY. The spikes on top of those prongs would get absolutely ruined in between ripping apart every piece of fabric you moved it near. If you ever need ONE prong retipped you’ll either have to lose the spikes on all of them, or just deal with them mismatching. That WHOLE ASS HEAD is so atypical and seated strangely that even IF you managed to wear it for years, long enough to necessitate the kind of general maintenance all jewelry eventually needs, you’ll end up getting shrugged at and told “yeah I don’t know how anyone could work on this”. Even IF you got someone to work on it, that finish is gonna need touched up, which is AGAIN, something no one outside of the manufacturer will do for a reasonable price. There’s not even a good way to strip off the existing rhodium, so you’d end up with black shit stuck in all the crevasses.

I think they’re very striking, but I swear to god y’all, my store will get at least one flyer every week from some new manufacturer with a line EXACTLY like this. Buncha whacky way-off-the-beaten-path design choices, there’s no actual pictures of anything, and the markup is frankly embarrassing. Regular ass jewelry stores like mine could have this shit custom made as a complete 1-off for LESS than what they’re selling it for, don’t buy jewelry online folks 💖

being a union busting RAT

omfg WHAT

e: i tried it, it’s really good

omfg i’m doing this

there’s a few mini-truck dealerships (somewhat) near me and they’re supposedly street legal, even on highways around here. i reeeaaallly wanna get one just to move shit around town.

ah jeeze you sure got riled up, huh?

so first of all, i’m not even the same person you first replied to. idk what gave you this idea, but i’d suggest reading usernames before going THIS all-in over something so minor.

second, i didn’t call YOU callous. i made an (honestly pretty fucken measured) assessment of your statement, which is still a very rude thing to say to a stranger by the way! i don’t claim to know ANYTHING about you personally, so i sure would look like some kind of fucking idiot if i tried to make a personal judgement, right? maybe one like “you must be a riot at parties”? THAT’D sure be embarrassing.

no one ever said the burger place wasn’t good, or that you’re an asshole for recommending it. honestly i don’t know what possessed you to get THIS defensive. obviously i can’t speak for everyone, but i’d bet that no one here thought you were wrong for recommending a restaurant.

you’re being downvoted because you’re functionally echoing the same bullshit “anti-woke” sentiment that we all have to suffer through day after day. and please believe me when i say, you’re the first and only person who considers this an argument. at any point (even now!) you could say “whoops yeah that was mean” and that would LITERALLY BE THE END OF IT FOR ME.

but if you wanna keep showing your whole ass to a public forum, i will absolutely keep giving you the airtime for it 💖

It’s as complicated as you make it to be, and that’s gonna vary WILDLY per person lmao

ain’t nary an ounce of hate to be found in my gullet, babe.

You must be a riot at parties.

enlighten me as to what bridge was built here. i met your sarcasm with more sarcasm, but suddenly that’s hateful? what do you call what you did?

e: to clarify, i just think it’s quite callous to have such a devil may care attitude about inequality, even if you yourself aren’t exposed to it every day.

There was this fantastic Greek place who’s sign was literally just a hand painted map of the town the owner grew up in. Amazing gyros, unbelievably cheap. IIRC they were only ~$4, and then for like $1.50 more you could upgrade to a “plate” which meant you got EASILY double the filling.

Homie might have been treating us special bc we were regulars and were always chatting with him and his sons, but either way it was by far the best restaurant experience I’ve ever had.

yeah it’s such a bummer to point out inequality, much more socially polite to suffer in silence like the good ones

i’m just so tried of hearing about other people’s strife, it’s really starting to bum me out!

eGPU’s are the future of gaming.

or maybe i’m coping since i bought a laptop, whatever i’m still excited

i’m pan and it took me YEARS to realize that just finding people attractive independent of sex/gender wasn’t something everyone could relate to.

like seriously, child me was walking through this world thinking that “being gay is a choice” just meant you decided you wanted to date all the dudes you already found attractive. i remember realizing wtf homophobia even was and i was SO SAD.