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 Post subject: Re: Before and After – Post YOUR Transformation Pics
PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 4:44 pm 
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First post on the forum! Wanted to share this aquamarine that I recut from a large and quite wonky commercial Portuguese cut.


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Does the table of your aqua have a frosted finish?


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I believe that the first picture is of the octagon stone he cut.

The second picture is a round portuguese cut. The table looks frosted in the image, but probably not in person.


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Nice transformation!

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Thanks everyone! Yep, these had gotten posted out of order - in the before image I had just ground down the table in prep for initial dopping. Forgot to snag a pic before then!


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A Mozambican tourmaline I cut recently for a client - 72.67 ct rough, 32.62 ct finished stone, with a step cut pavilion and modified crown (after PC 04.172 by Evan Williams 1994) to make it more interesting than a conventional emerald cut. The client is considering heat treating it, but I would leave it as it is. (The color banding does not show in the hand. The white spots are just dust and the crown facets are a bit out of focus. They are not rounded.)
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I really like the colors of the rough. Personally I would have made a cabochon
... Without depreciating your work ... quite the contrary !

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Hi Duncan

That's an amazing stone!!! Those sunset colours are stunning! =D>

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Nice stone and cut Duncan. I am with your customer, I would heat treat to remove some of the dark brown.


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Nice, I to agree with heating it.

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I'm a treatment snob. Leave it alone.


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So, my client decided to heat treat the tourmaline, and sent me this photograph of the result.
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Hmm although not a bad color. Think i prefer the unheated colors. Nice stone either way, and good design andcutting!


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Here are my first cut Peridots. No problems cutting or polishing these, just found it hard spotting inclusions early enough.
Very sad to see them so "dirty" in the photos. It just keeps surprising me how the clarity levels can lower SO much when photographing gemstones.
Also quite surprised how birefringence makes the inclusions even more pronounced and the overall stone fuzzier, in the photos of course. If one uses just them eyeballs, they look nice and clean :P

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Pakistani Peridot 7.0ct Trilliant
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need to get some reflections going on the top facets, think that will improve the presentation of the stones.


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I think they are looking fabulous as they are. What a color!


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