The last five or six trails I've been on have all had super steep long sections and I'm tired of that. Any suggestions on trails of a few miles or so that are mostly level, and aren't just a bike path in an urban area?
I ordered through a rep and asked for a piece that Provence featured the concept art of on their blog, which I had fallen in love with. I’ve attached the screenshot of their concept piece, showing also that it is from Provence’s site. I got a quote for the piece in 10k and paid. I then received the CAD, which was significantly different from the ring featured in the art. I have attached it here, black background labelled V1. My most significant issue with it was they shrunk the shoulders and that amazing scrollwork so it looked like just a halo on a band, not like a contiguous signet-like piece.
Thinking maybe someone else had made some modifications to the design and they just reused those, I explained clearly and with pictures to the rep what was different in the CAD vs the design concept, circling different spots in particular, and explained how I liked the contiguous, signet-like look of the original design. I just got back the second version of the CAD. It is slightly improved from the first version but it *still* doesn’t look like the original. I attached it here also labelled V2.
What do I do here? I’m starting to feel worried and discouraged. I just want the gorgeous, antique/ signet-looking ring that they had on their blog, not some sort of halo on a straight band thing. It’s not even my design, it’s theirs, so I know I’m not asking for impossible things. Do I do another round of trying to explain what’s different between the CAD and the original design?
Look bro if you’d bothered to watch the rest of this adaptation of Nobel laureate and 4x Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s world-famous play, you’d know the answer.
With the cost of gold being what it is (💸) I’ve been looking into silver more. But regular sterling silver is too soft for everyday wear. Is Provence able to do any designs in other silver alloys, like Continuum sterling silver? Or any other metal options I’m not aware of?