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[Siamese Kitty]

Awesome stone, Kenny! Congrats on your purchase! Maybe you can have it implanted in your wrist-LOL jk No, but if the tension is doable, that would really be some ring!

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Date: 11/27/2006 12:26:04 AM
Author: kenny
I wonder if the black would darken the stone though.

Do asschers collect the colors below the girdle and send them up through the crown?

Could the experts chime in on this?

Garry just posted my stone''s ASET image with white indicating leakage.


I didn''t see much leakage (white).
Doesn''t that mean the light coming up through the crown came from the crown since it it blue, green red, etc?
Wouldn''t that reason that the ''leakage'' would be visible through the top as light entering the pavilion?
So those white leakage spaces would show up black from the ring?

Your stone has very little leakage Kenny - but when seen from various angles - which you will do from time to time (unless you spend the rest of your life glued to looking at this gem face on

)you will see more leakage - like in this 45 degree tlted shot

 

[kenny]

Thanks Garry.
You know, even at an angle it looks cool.
It brings to mind the designs woven into Navajo rugs.
It's fascinating how things repeat when artists tune into nature.

Can you spot the rock?

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 11/28/2006 12:26:20 AM
Author: kenny
Maybe I''ll have it set into my boot.

Then it WILL be kickin!

I could go nuts with this.... put it in place of a tooth.... have it surgically implanted in your navel (theres a thread on hangout on implantings lol) one big manlyman earring - oooh how about a bangle?

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 11/28/2006 12:38:21 AM
Author: Siamese Kitty
Awesome stone, Kenny! Congrats on your purchase! Maybe you can have it implanted in your wrist-LOL jk No, but if the tension is doable, that would really be some ring!

haha see? btw I finally got the boot kickin'' joke
<~ slow lol

 

[kenny]

It's here.

First impression:
It seems small.
For the weight it seems smaller than I expected.
I knew aschers face up small but for some reason (probably the price) I was expecting a little more honk.
Then again I’m kind of relieved, I didn’t want something too flashy.
Besides, it is kind of rude to honk horns at work and in restaurants.
It is the *perfect* size.

Next, this is the first asscher I’ve really seen up close.
There is definitely a 3-D thing going on.
It’s wild!
It really does pull you in.

When you rock it up and down the 3-D effect is very powerful.
The horizontal bars move in a way that seems to be an optical illusion.
It is quite hypnotic.
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Side note:
The effect is almost disconcerting,
The disorientation I feel rocking an asscher brings to mind that Alfred Hitchcock film, Vertigo.
Remember that scene towards the end when Jimmy Stewart trys to climb the stairs of the tower, but he gets “vertigo”?
Hitchcock used an innovative and brilliant photographic technique to caputre Stewart’s disorientation.
It looked like the room around him distorted and become somehow deeper in a way that is not natural or possible.
(Back in the 1960s there were no special effects; he did this by zooming the camera lens out while moving the camera closer, synchronized perfectly to keep Jimmy Stewart the same size and in focus as the staircase and room seemed to become further away.)
The asschers don't do this but what I am comparing the similarity in how they both mess with the ability of your brain to understand what your eyes are telling it.
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This strange effect is only seen when you rock the asscher up and down.
But when you rock it side to side you’d expect the vertical bars to also do the same thing, but they don’t.
I believe this is because our eyes are positioned side by side, not one above the other.
Asscher movement in one axis is parallel with the plane of our two eyes, but movement in the other axis is not.

If you have not seen asschers in person you are missing something.
A still photo does nothing to capture their magic.
Even a video wouldn't even help because a video camera has only one lens.
The effect is dependent on how we see in stereo, with two eyes.

Next, I am used to looking at my round Solasfera, and a round ACA.
I think ideal rounds do a better job of blowing your head off with light.
The Asscher is more refined in its light language.
Rounds are like great pop music; asschers are like great opera.

Oh, did I mention I LOVE the large bars of color it gives off.
Kawabunga, Dude!

Next, asschers have lots and lots more material under the girdle than rounds.
They have a huge side profile, which is why they face up small for the weight.
Sure, the asscher’s magic show happens face up.
But let me tell you, there is some major bling bursting out of the side.
I definitely want to see more of what I paid for.
I’m going with a tension setting or if I go with Morell, who does not do tension, it will have little or no metal blocking that astonishing side view.

More later.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Wow, Kenny...makes us all want to call up and order one! Post pictures soon!

 

[Garry H (Cut Nut)]

Date: 11/29/2006 2:56:45 PM
Author: kenny

Next, this is the first asscher I’ve really seen up close.
There is definitely a 3-D thing going on.
It’s wild!
It really does pull you in.

When you rock it up and down the 3-D effect is very powerful.
The horizontal bars move in a way that seems to be an optical illusion.
It is quite hypnotic.

This strange effect is only seen when you rock the asscher up and down.
But when you rock it side to side you’d expect the vertical bars would also do the same thing, but they don’t.
I believe this is because our eyes are positioned side by side, not one above the other.
Asscher movement in one axis is parallel with the plane of our two eyes, but movement in the other axis is not.

If you have not seen asschers in person you are missing something.
A still photo does nothing to capture their magic.
A video will not either because a camera has only one lens.
The effect is dependent on how we see in stereo, with two eyes.

thanks for the very accurate description of stereo vision and its effects Kenny.

Enjoy the falling into wishing well effect

 

[Dee*Jay]

Kenny - you MUST stop this!!! I have already ordered an uber-expensive new setting for my ring and spent three times what I had planned on new earrings just a few days ago, so you HAVE TO STOP making me want to run out and get an asscher!!!

 

[decodelighted]

Date: 11/29/2006 2:56:45 PM
Author: kenny
I definitely want to see more of what I paid for.
I’m going with a tension setting or if I go with Morell, who does not do tension, it will have little or no metal blocking the astonishing side view.

Cool description, Kenny! Love it!

The hypnotic effect you''re describing ... you won''t believe your EYES if you set it in a setting with a mirrored trough ... when it''s shined up to perfection - it blows my eyes out of their sockets!!! CRAZY psychadelic mind-tripping!

For that reason ALONE I''d suggest ixnaying Tension & going with a setting with lots of sideview but a reflective surface (ideally mirrored) beneath the Asscher. You won''t be sorry!

I will say -- the super Wowie effect only lasts as long as the mirror stays polished to perfection ... perhaps Ultrasonics or home steam cleaners would do the trick but I don''t own one. Honestly I couldn''t TAKE IT if my stone looked like it does fresh from the jewelers. But once in a while is VERY VERY COOL!

 

[kenny]

 

[diamondseeker2006]

That''s gorgeous, Kenny...now don''t just tease us...we need more than that!

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 11/29/2006 3:29:27 PM
Author: decodelighted

Date: 11/29/2006 2:56:45 PM
Author: kenny
I definitely want to see more of what I paid for.
I&#8217;m going with a tension setting or if I go with Morell, who does not do tension, it will have little or no metal blocking the astonishing side view.

Cool description, Kenny! Love it!

The hypnotic effect you''re describing ... you won''t believe your EYES if you set it in a setting with a mirrored trough ... when it''s shined up to perfection - it blows my eyes out of their sockets!!! CRAZY psychadelic mind-tripping!

For that reason ALONE I''d suggest ixnaying Tension & going with a setting with lots of sideview but a reflective surface (ideally mirrored) beneath the Asscher. You won''t be sorry!

I will say -- the super Wowie effect only lasts as long as the mirror stays polished to perfection ... perhaps Ultrasonics or home steam cleaners would do the trick but I don''t own one. Honestly I couldn''t TAKE IT if my stone looked like it does fresh from the jewelers. But once in a while is VERY VERY COOL!

now I''m gonna have to go back and look at your rings again deco!! the ring I''m designing has a "trough" though I''d thought of it as a bowl LOL! And kenny, the design for my ring is leaving a naked side view as well with a deep V to view it - though I''m having 8 prongs so it won''t be AS naked - with your 8 sides you could easily do 4 nice thick big prongs at each corner with a mirrored bowl underneath - or trough haha - and some up with a quite masculine piece that still has nakey stone side views!

 

[kenny]

Sorry gotta go.
Off to FedEx.
Another diamond pickup.

 

[Cehrabehra]

Date: 11/29/2006 4:30:32 PM
Author: kenny
Sorry gotta go.
Off to FedEx.
Another diamond pickup.

you are SUCH a tease!!!!

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Maybe he''s doing another 2 stone comparison like he did with the rounds.

Hey Kenny, I''ll take your left-overs!

 

[kenny]

This one''s an ACA that just got set.

Life''s rough.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Okay, get out that camera again, Kenny! We need to get our bling fix for today!!!

 

[Ellen]

Date: 11/29/2006 4:33:49 PM
Author: kenny
This one''s an ACA that just got set.

Life''s rough.

kenny, I wanna be you when I grow up.

 

[belle]

congrats on your purchase kenny

now you should just round up the collection with a princess.

 

[kenny]

No more rocks.
I'm broke.
You may soon see the world's first asscher set in cardboard.

Instead of rock music I'll be listening to baroque.

I just got back the ACA set by Bruce Boone.
Wow, he does excellent work.
Fast too.

Maybe the asscher should go into titanium.
Hmmm.
It would seem it deserves platinum - You know, fancy metal for fancy stone.
But titanium really looks cool.
I ordered the stronger 8-1-1 alloy.
It is a little darker than the 0.95 platinum alloy that Gelin & Abaci uses.

I'm working on pics.

(Edit) Oye, I forgot how hard it is to get good diamond pics.
Decent ones not be up till the weekend.

 

[Cehrabehra]

I was thinking that if rounds are pop music and your asscher is opera - my cushion is definitely jazz LOL