From Nice, to GLORIOUS!

I am going to share some before and after stone pictures with you today. Here is the beginning. I have been talking with a delightful gentleman for some time who wanted to give his fiance a nice yellow sapphire as that is what she has told him she wants for an engagement ring.

He sent me this fairly attractive yellow sapphire. As you can see, it has a nice yellow color, but the make is off. It has a big window in the center of the stone and you can see an inclusion fairly easily.

As you can see the stone is actually a little "lopsided, with the culet way to one side of the center of the stone where it belongs. It weight 5.95cts but much of the weight was "fat" in the bottom of the stone and actually detracting, not adding to the beauty of the stone.

Here is a view of the stone looking at the width of the stone. Here you can see that the table is not parallel to the girdle, and is at a fairly significant tilt. For weight retention purposes, you will see that Richard Homer, the genius who recut this nice stone and made it a true GEM did not do much, if anything to correct this minor error. He was able to use his knowledge of light and how it travels within a stone to create and balance the look this gem deserved without removing a significant portion of the top of the stone to do so.


I am going to show you the recut width view now so that you can more easily compare the two photos. I see that I photographed the original view from one end of the stone, and the recut view from the other. Oh well! You can still see the tilt to the table, but look at the improved color, even from the side of the stone.


From here you can see that the culet is once again in the center of the gem, where it belongs. If you look carefully you can see that Richard has thickened the girdle on one end so that the pavilion of the gem can be cut in proper alignment to look wonderful when seen from above.




Okay, so here we have the beginning,
And here we have the end. Which would you rather have? Notice that the brownish hue is mostly gone from the stone and the window of course is closed, which makes the inclusion readily visible in the before dissapear in the after. The dark areas of extinction are gone too, and now the stone is lively and bright.

See you next week...