Before and After Photos of Successful Recuts

[ChrisA222]

Since we were showing the bad ones, I'd like to start a thread of some of the good ones.

I didn't save a ton of the before pics, but I was lucky that the last one Dan Stair did for me, he took a pic of the stone both before and after. I know you all don't love vendor pics, but you can still see the improvement in the stone. This is a Burmese Peridot, which was a complete recut. It started 4.5ct and ended 3ct, but the dimensions were almost exactly the same, as this was a very deep, bellied stone.

 

[ChrisA222]

Here's another. This was a Blue Zircon that had a wonky, lopsided cut...it was an ovally-cushion or a cushiony-oval. It was completely recut into a rectangular brilliant.

I just want to mention, while both of these stones were recut by Dan Stair, I work or have worked with quite a few cutters. I've had cutting done by Dan, Jerry Newman, Jordan Wilkins, Jean-Noel Soni, and John Miller. I hope I am not forgetting anyone! The point is there are a lot of great precision-cutters here in the US.

 

[jstarfireb]

Very nice! I especially like what he did with the peridot (the zircon is harder to see from his pic). Do you have any real-life after shots? I'd love to see more.

 

[deorwine]

Chris, that's really cool.

The zircon looks like it changed color semi-dramatically after the recut (becoming much more blue and less green) -- is that accurate?

 

[LD]

This is a very subtle recut. The culet was "off" and the faceting was going to drive me bananas (especially as this is a large stone). So I asked David from Multicolour to recut it for me BUT wanted to make sure it didn't dip under the 8ct mark. He wasn't sure whether that would do the trick but in the end it worked. Had I been prepared to lose a bit more, the cut would probably have been even better. Both photos were taken by David, presumably in the same lighting conditions etc.