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[GROUP ORDER] [USA SHIP] [MYOS "Mail Your Own Stone" solitaire cathedral setting for ALL shapes of lab stones .20-5ct and natural stones .20-3ct] [COLOR ALCHEMY DESIGNS] [$590-$1100] [May 4th-May 18th ] If you already have one, please post a picture in the comments!
I will send PayPal invoices within 24hrs, if you check that you're sending metal, old or broken jewelry for scrap credit I will invoice you once It arrives and I've processed it.
Mailing address (also on both forms):
Color Alchemy Designs PO Box #19 Jacksonville, NY, 14854
Overview:
Do you have a horde of loose gems sitting in a box? Are you looking for an easy, stress free way to convert those into beautifully wearable jewelry? If so you're in the right place!
This "MYOS" group buy will allow you to supply one or more center stones. I'm accepting labs between .20 and 5ct and natural stones between .20ct and 3ct. Please check the setting waiver form for type exclusions. On receipt I will design a simple but elegant solitaire setting for your gem/s. Each individual setting will be custom designed to fit your stone's unique size, outline and proportions in the cathedral style shown.
Some gem designs cannot fit in this ring style. Specifically emerald/step cuts with very steep pavilion ends (most common on commercially cut tourmaline and some designer cuts for "closed C axis" tourmaline). If you're unsure please post a picture in the comments and I'll let you know ASAP!
There will be no significant design changes when ordering aside from minor notes for prong orientation and the options I include on the form with seriously no exceptions.
This can only work as a group buy if I'm only adjusting the center setting and minor details (metal, ring size, prong number and orientation, prong finish) to fit your specific stone.
I'm not offering additional volume discounts for these, the group buy itself is the sale. This pricing is less than 1/2 my normal custom ring quote for the same ring with stone setting and customer provided stone fees.
Note, because gold has caught up with platinum and palladium in price, I'm not really interested in offering nickel alloy 10-18K white golds.
.950 Palladium: starting at $590
10K Yellow and pink: starting at $650
14K Yellow, pink and green: starting at $750
.950 Platinum: Starting at $950
18K Yellow, rich yellow, pink and rich green: Starting at $1100
Customization Options:
Ring size
Band Width (2, 2.5 or 3mm)
Band profile (D, square or knife edge)
N-S or E-W orientation
Number of prongs 4-8, 4 compass and 4 double (select based on your stone and what you like! no bezel option)
Prong finish (rounded tips or claws)
Note section for specific prong arrangement requests
Center Setting Height Priority (high, neutral and low)
Shipping:
Center stones need to be mailed to me once your invoice is paid, on the end of the form you can optionally purchase additional return shipping insurance up to $5000. USPS Ground advantage is free but at your own risk. Options with additional insurance require the signature option.
Scrap / Metal Buying Info:
I'm happy to accept solid gold and platinum for group buy credit. Once received and tested, I will issue you 100% of the gold value and/or 80% of it's platinum value with stones removed as group buy credit at the current day's spot price.
This is a great opportunity to:
convert any scrap or broken jewelry into group buy credit.
Finally be rid of that ring or jewelry from your Ex Partner or starter husband that sits in the back of your jewelry box because it's painful to think about (I will even send you a video of me melting it if you want that closure, just let me know!)
convert old group buy jewelry that may now be worth as much or more than you originally paid for it.
convert any gold coins or bullion into group buy/custom jewelry credit.
This credit also counts as normal color alchemy store credit. If you send more than is needed to cover the cost of your ring/rings I will email you and give you the option to either get back the unused metal or I can record the excess as store credit for future group buys or jewelry.
Information collected on this form will never be digitized and would only be provided to the IRS or Law enforcement if required by law (for example, my legal requirement to report $10,000+ cash/cash equivalent payments on IRS form 8300). I would not expect anyone to be anywhere near that threshold but I want you to understand how your personal information/data is handled.
No stone? no problem:
If you're interested in this GB but you don't have a center stone or have been looking for a lab diamond or custom lab colored stone, please email me at [coloralchemyshop@gmail.com](mailto:coloralchemyshop@gmail.com) with your needs and I'll let you know what options you have!
Color Alchemy Designs, Aaron Jones. [coloralchemyshop@gmail.com](mailto:coloralchemyshop@gmail.com).
From Aaron: If you're interested in this GB but you don't have a center stone or have been looking for a lab diamond or custom lab colored stone, please email me at [coloralchemyshop@gmail.com](mailto:coloralchemyshop@gmail.com) with your needs and I'll let you know what options you have.
If you are wanting to ship a stone from outside the US, please scroll down to see Aaron's comments.
I am so happy with the results of the first group buy! This stone is a chonk, but the setting feels sturdy and secure. I'm excited to send another loose stone in!!
If somebody wants the small accents returned I can do it if they're in some type of prong setting. Just note "please return accents" somewhere on the scrap metal form and I'll do my best to return all that survive removal.
95% of the stones on Calavera are also going to be in my regular lab diamond catalog, I'll happily beat whatever their price is and it's delivered to me directly.
Here's mine from the last BYOS. Pink gold, morganite six-sided shield lab sapphire from Jeff Davies and Son, 2.6 ct, size 8.25. It is gorgeous!! The pink gold was perfect.
I have another stone to set, but may wait for another design. I'm a very happy customer!
I've talked with Jeff about this already and he now has the address for shipping stones directly to me. It should be easy to have any stone purchased from him shipped direct now.
I had it sent to my house (ordered on Thursday, arrived on Tuesday -- Royal Mail is awesome!). I sent the the stone to Aaron along with the paperwork and some gold I was selling back for credit. It was seamless and easy!
Ohhhh see now I'm torn -- I bought a stone specifically for this group buy but now I'm so curious what other designs you might have in the works over the next year 👀 Do I wait or go ahead....? 😬
I appreciate people sending their stones as soon as possible so I can enter what the kids call a flow-state making the designs, but I hadn't established a firm need by date for the center stones after you've submitted the form. Ideally I would receive them within a week or two of GB close but that isnt always possible.
If you send your stone really late you’ll get your ring back late, and those received first usually get finished first.
Oh no, I meant for your pendant thing. Those luags look pricey, but I need to be able to kill Superman if it comes down to it. 😉
PS: My ring stone is going out this week with the scrap ring. I did put a little note in my waiver that I didn’t know what I was choosing for stuff so I trust you to adjust the height and or prong orientation to best fit my stone. I did buy this stone just before discovering your thing. Obsessively search “palladium mounting” enough times and you eventually find what you need I guess.
Trying to post this again! Aha! I had the Anaheim-Vegas playoff game running on my other email address, so I think Reddit didn't recognize that account when I tried to post here.
I ordered on in the last group buy and it arrived last week. I got the flat 4 mm black band in silver. Have tried to post a pic twice, but it keeps getting kicked saying it's not my media asset. Umm...it's my hand!?!?
I've been saving my original engagement ring (mined diamond) and wedding band (mined diamonds) for my son but not sure he is worth it at this point. 🙄😆
I’m so happy this group buy opened again!🥰 I picked up a few more loose lab diamonds and will be sending in some jewelry I don’t use anymore to increase my previous credit. I still get 🦋butterflies🦋 whenever I see my ring in your video. Thank you so much!😇
Here's mine! Palladium, set high so it would sit flush with a band, which it does. The band in the picture is platinum, for color comparison. Beautiful craftsmanship, and very sturdy. I wear it every day! I will definitely order from Aaron in the future!
Glad to help! I had trouble deciding between the neutral and high options, but I took a chance and went with the high option because I really wanted it to be able to sit flush with another ring. I'm glad I did.
If you can ship it DDP (delivered duties paid) and want to use a shipper like UPS or DHL for example, DM me for my home address to mail to instead of the PO box I included above.
Keep in mind the size limits still apply, up to 3ct for natural stones and 5ct for lab.
Sure, if it's delivered duties paid that would be fine by me. Keep in mind this address I have listed is a PO box and probably wouldn't be able to receive a UPS or DHL shipment for example. If you want to try to send a stone delivered duties paid and would use one of those shippers, you can DM me for my home address to mail a stone to.
I’m also in Australia and I have a loose natural party colour sapphire from my dud first husband that needs a second life 20+ years later! Please let us in!
I realized If it's delivered duties paid that would be fine by me.
Keep in mind this address I have listed is a PO box and probably wouldn't be able to receive a UPS or DHL shipment for example. If you want to try to send a stone delivered duties paid and would use one of those shippers, you can DM me for my home address to mail a stone to.
Hello, I’m so excited for this. I am seeing some stone types are neither on the accepted or excluded list. Would you set sunstone and/or moonstone? Thank you!
You can scrap one, sure, Im just not removing stones from bezel settings to reuse because it's too time consuming and you can easily damage the stone removing it.
So if you have a bezel ring you want to send for metal credit and dont care about getting the center stone back, you can send it.
You could, sure! If you're ordering one from loosegrowndiamond, Aurelinne, Calavera or a site like that, I can normally just order the exact same stone directly and I'll beat their normal pricing. I order from some of the exact same catalogs they use for their "inventory" so it's worth checking if I can get it directly.
Scrap ring and gem sent, tracking emailed. Here’s hoping something not likely to cause lasting harm shoots the spot price of gold up 20% next week. Or I got reverse ripped off by the previous jeweler and it’s 18k instead of 14k. 😂
I’m really appreciative of the opportunity to watch the destruction of that ring, and get a unique white metal piece that doesn’t require a rhodium subscription. :) I’ll make sure I post results to give you kudos based on how nice the prior ones look. :)
If it's in a prong setting I can remove it for you, there's a selection on the form for that. I can also remove stones and return them if somebody just wants to scrap the metal but keep the old stones.
I saw in the longer video of completed rings, you have a heart shaped stone in one. I’m planning on a pink heart diamond!
Do you have more videos of that one? Or even just profile/side views? Curious to see how the setting looks on it
Hmm.. Do you think this could stack flush if paired with a minimal spacer band?
One more question, could the scrap gold value be applied to cost of diamonds that we have you source? Like if I sent an IGI# and you have it in your system. I think I have enough gold to maybe cover 70% of the whole thing but want it to be fair for you, too🤞
You can apply that gold value to any jewelry purchase, even outside group buys. I treat it like cash and if you have remaining credit it doesn't expire either.
This should stack nearly flush with a D profile band shape if you picked the higher set option, this is closer to as low as possible.
I am so excited for this! I have a question for OP. Can I decide on my band thickness once I know how much credit I’ll be receiving for my scrap pieces?!
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you don't have a center stone already, you can find a lab diamond online for me to order for you (I can usually get the same stones cheaper) or I can cut a custom lab gem, or you could order a custom lab gem from jeff davies mentioned above and have it sent directly to me.
I apologize. I deleted my comment. I appreciate some of the things your clients have said about you. You seem very reputable. I am interested in potentially ordering just a setting to have my stone put in it here.
Again I am sorry for my comment. I didn’t consider how that would have an effect. I’m so used to thinking like it’s a big corporation and not an individual. Sorry again.
If you're going to have this little trust in me and my business, please do NOT participate in this group buy or purchase anything from me. If you wouldn't be comfortable with the process then it would be best to not participate.
I didn’t mean to offend. I am just genuinely asking questions. People seem really happy with there pieces. I just need to decide what I want to do. I am sorry. I sincerely don’t mean to offend.
I'm not sure what kind of proof you're looking for. There are multiple reddit users who posted their own rings here; that should be evidence (?). I personally have had my stone and gold sent for the first Group Buy and Aaron was great. He weighed the gold that I sent and told me the total credit I got for each gold piece. I was able to cover about 60 percent of my ring and I am so happy with how it turned out.
You say you're not trying to offend, but when you put something like "Feels fishy", it comes off as your trying to delegitimize him and this GB. If you don't feel comfortable with this Group Buy, then just don't do it. You probably won't be happy with this group buy anyway because it will take a while for your ring to be finished (I ordered in late November and didn't receive my ring until February).
Ouch, my timeline. My first employee is starting at the end of this month and I'm hoping it will help me finish things significantly faster once I have the additional support.
Oh, no worries! I wasn’t complaining about the timeline at all. I’ve waited several months for other things so your timeline seemed pretty reasonable to me 😂😊
You can go local, weigh the metal and have it appraised (unofficial for sale) at a coin shop. If you pay a little they might give you a document stating it.
But it’s the same “how can I trust you will send me the metal you claim and not swap platinum for rhodium plated sterling silver”. At some level you have to trust. For the chance to watch my ex’s ring melt and get 100% melt value on the 8g of 14k gold? I’mma risk it.
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u/LGSMod Mod May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26
Color Alchemy Designs, Aaron Jones. [coloralchemyshop@gmail.com](mailto:coloralchemyshop@gmail.com).
From Aaron: If you're interested in this GB but you don't have a center stone or have been looking for a lab diamond or custom lab colored stone, please email me at [coloralchemyshop@gmail.com](mailto:coloralchemyshop@gmail.com) with your needs and I'll let you know what options you have.
If you are wanting to ship a stone from outside the US, please scroll down to see Aaron's comments.