Originally Posted by benten
Originally Posted by Dave
Why the hole ? Any reason ?

Dave
Originally Posted by Dave
Why the hole ? Any reason ?

Dave
Dave, if I remember well.........when you have to saw, on a very little scale like this, you can make a mistake easily and saw too far.
If you drill a hole on the end point, before sawing to that point, it is easier to stop there ....specially when two saw lines meet in one point. You have more sawing control. This could be an explanation.

Benten

Hello Benten and Dave, the reason for the "hole" is another. The monogram is a separate part, fixed by soldering. As you can see the hole it is in the middle segment of the ring, at the state of manufacturing totally surrounded by the monogram (oposite of the other parts of the monogramm which could be reached from "outside"). Therefore the jeweler had to do this whole to be able to mount the saw blade through this hole in this certain section to cut out the small inner part between "M" and "H". Normally such a hole is done in a way that you cannot detect it after the middle segment is removed, but here the hole was done too near to the monogram itself therefore it can be still detected.
Regards,

wotan, gd.c-b#105

"Never look for sqare eggs" as a late owner of an original FHH-dagger used to say.