Post subject: Re: Before and After – Post YOUR Transformation Pics
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 6:47 pm
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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!
Post subject: Re: Before and After – Post YOUR Transformation Pics
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 4:32 am
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Joined: Sat May 22, 2010 2:51 am Posts: 755 Location: South Africa
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.)
Post subject: Re: Before and After – Post YOUR Transformation Pics
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 4:48 am
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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
Pakistani Peridot Rough
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Pakistani Peridot 7.0ct Trilliant
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Pakistani Peridot 4.1ct Cushion
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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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