Gemscoop is posted!!!

[LostSapphire]

Date: 6/30/2008 11:05:25 PM
Author: FrekeChild
Ok. Well don''t jump on anything just because other people might grab it. Think about it for a bit first.

What''s Jeff''s return policy anyway?

Ever since I saw the Leon I loved how the pears/traps changed the overal shape of the design. I can only really do that with a very FAT oval, cushion, or, a round. So that''s been my dilemma: it''s forced me to rethink the original replacement ER (which has been a very productive process for me, and I''m really happy to see the Leon cluster/halo.

We''ll leave it to the Gods at this point....


Here is his return policy:
My main concern is ensuring that each customer is happy with his or her order. Therefore, I provide my customers with a one-week inspection period following every gemstone purchase. If, during that time, you decide that your stone is just not what you were expecting, simply return it to us for a refund. It is that simple. Once we receive the stone, your money will be refunded immediately (provided that the stone is not damaged in any way). Stones that have been damaged or altered may not be returned.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 6/30/2008 11:30:09 PM
Author: SanDiegoLady

Date: 6/30/2008 7:02:27 PM
Author:LostSapphire
PLEASE PLEASE SOMEBODY SCOOP UP THAT ROUND SAPPHIRE BEFORE I CAVE IN AND TELL JEFF I''LL TAKE THAT INSTEAD OF HOLDING OUT FOR A FAT OVAL OR A CUSHION!

WHAT A COLOUR!!

I saw it. Its fabulous and its a marvelous price.. holy crap.

So I drafted up the ring to scale on CAD. It looks stunning. I was not expecting to like the shape of the round, and that''s why I''ve been holding back.

This stone has been talking to me for a month since I first saw it.

Funny, this process has forced my design thought process to change and evolve. And I am a bit happy for that because I''m looking at something that is kind of similar to my original, but different enough to feel "modern".

..so we''ll see how it turns out.

 

[Deelight]

The blue spinels are gone

which were my other faves damn shame though, a beautiful pair of dangly earrings they would have made for me .


LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 9:41:20 AM
Author: Deelight



LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

pssssst: I''m going for it! Just waiting for confirmation from JW!!!

 

[Deelight]

Date: 7/1/2008 10:01:43 AM
Author: LostSapphire

Date: 7/1/2008 9:41:20 AM

Author: Deelight




LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

pssssst: I''m going for it! Just waiting for confirmation from JW!!!

YAY that will be one stunning ring

 

[mercoledi]

Date: 7/1/2008 10:01:43 AM
Author: LostSapphire

Date: 7/1/2008 9:41:20 AM

Author: Deelight




LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

pssssst: I''m going for it! Just waiting for confirmation from JW!!!

Oh wow! I think it would be fab in that Leon, a tribute to your original ring without being a copy. It''s worth ''interviewing'' the stone so that you know, right?


And d@mn, if I had a spare $800 those blue spinels would have been mine

! What a color! All they need is sharp little prongs to hold them in my ears! But debt is bad

. Very bad.

 

[FrekeChild]

Yippee LS!!!!

 

[Linda W]

YAY LS, I am glad you are going for it. I can''t wait to see that beauty set. Are you going to have Leon do it????



Linda

 

[Skippy123]

Date: 7/1/2008 10:01:43 AM
Author: LostSapphire

Date: 7/1/2008 9:41:20 AM
Author: Deelight



LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

pssssst: I''m going for it! Just waiting for confirmation from JW!!!

Yay, it is sooo beautiful, I kept looking at it yesterday!!!! Gorgeous!

 

[LtlFirecracker]

Date: 7/1/2008 10:01:43 AM
Author: LostSapphire

Date: 7/1/2008 9:41:20 AM
Author: Deelight



LS That sapphire colour is divine if you think that it would make you happy and you would not regret the shape I say go for it.

pssssst: I''m going for it! Just waiting for confirmation from JW!!!

Did you go for it????? I love that stone! It was a little out of budget for me, but I think it is so beautiful.

 

[LostSapphire]

AND WHAT WAS LOST HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!!!

YIPPEEEEE

p.s. this is Jeff's hand, not mine!

 

[Fly Girl]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:00:56 PM
Author: LostSapphire
AND WHAT WAS LOST HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!!!

YIPPEEEEE

p.s. this is Jeff''s hand, not mine!

HooRay!!!

That is a beautiful stone, LS!!!

Give it a whirl. Colored stones are all about the COLOR!!!

 

[Miranda]

That stone is a gorgeous color! I''m so happy you are getting it LS!

 

[Linda W]

That stone is gorgeous!!!!!!! The color is to die for.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:15:33 PM
Author: Fly Girl

Date: 7/1/2008 4:00:56 PM
Author: LostSapphire
AND WHAT WAS LOST HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!!!

YIPPEEEEE

p.s. this is Jeff''s hand, not mine!

HooRay!!!

That is a beautiful stone, LS!!!

Give it a whirl. Colored stones are all about the COLOR!!!

Funny. Once I figured out the design on CAD, I was won over. All this time I was stuck on "oval" mode and couldn''t get past the idea that the new ring had to "match" the old with a few tweaks.

Reconsidering this round has forced me to rethink my options and I am so glad I did!!!

The colour is amazing. And yes, you''re right, it''s ALL ABOUT THE COLOUR!!!

That has been Jeff''s point all along: it is rare for him to get one of this size, quality and colour.

yay

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 11:05:19 AM
Author: mercoledi



And d@mn, if I had a spare $800 those blue spinels would have been mine

! What a color! All they need is sharp little prongs to hold them in my ears! But debt is bad

. Very bad.

OH YEAH they are absolutely amazing!

I almost gave in then remembered I need the $800 for some diamond melee of my own!!

I wonder who got them? They should show up soon. A few other things as well.

 

[emeraldlover1]

All I can say is, WOW!!!! I fall on the floor alot because of all the great stones here but this time I laid there for a few minutes.

 

[chrono]

Gorgeous unheated blue sapphire. Definitely no regrets on that purchase I''m sure.

As for the blue spinels, it was originally cut for me. The cut is fantastic but the spinels just darkened after the recutting process and had too much of a gray cast for me, so I returned them. Jeff was very honest and agreed with me, and so refunded my purchase without any problems. My plan was to make dangle earrings out of them, I hope their new owners will love them more tha I do.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:38:05 PM
Author: Chrono
Gorgeous unheated blue sapphire. Definitely no regrets on that purchase I'm sure.

As for the blue spinels, it was originally cut for me. The cut is fantastic but the spinels just darkened after the recutting process and had too much of a gray cast for me, so I returned them. Jeff was very honest and agreed with me, and so refunded my purchase without any problems. My plan was to make dangle earrings out of them, I hope their new owners will love them more tha I do.

Hey Chrono. Is it my imagination, or is one of the spinels a slightly darker stone than the other? On my monitor, the one on the left seems darker than the one on the right.


I *think* (am not 100% positive) that the round sapphire was the one mentioned in Kneeling08's thread where he searches for the sapphire for his FI. He had JW bring in a native cut, untreated round (it was 2.5 or a bit higher ctw), but ended up with a gorgeous treated stone from a local jeweler. The one he ended up with is beautiful.

Funny, I feel like when something is recut, it makes it *new* again, and yes, I am happy to love it more than Kneeling08 did.

On Kneeling08's thread he posted pics of the stone (while still in its native cut form). EVEN then it was amazing. Jeff offered it to me back in May, and it's been "talking to me" ever since.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:37:50 PM
Author: emeraldlover1
All I can say is, WOW!!!! I fall on the floor alot because of all the great stones here but this time I laid there for a few minutes.

Thank you EM1. That is so very kind of you to stay down there on the floor for a while just for me!!!

I am almost beside myself with joy that once again I''ll have a bit of *blue* on my ER finger.

 

[chrono]

Yes, one spinel is very slightly darker in tone than the other blue spinel.

Also, I agree with your guess on the sapphire. I think it''s the native recut that Kneeling passed on. It''s amazing what Jeff can do to bring out the best in a gemstone.

 

[mercoledi]

YAY LS!!! Woo hoo! Do you get to play with it next, or does it go straight to Leon? Does Leon even know he's been drafted?

Happy day!

Date: 7/1/2008 4:38:05 PM
Author: Chrono
As for the blue spinels, it was originally cut for me. The cut is fantastic but the spinels just darkened after the recutting process and had too much of a gray cast for me, so I returned them.

Chrono- I really like the grey cast; I hope you find the right dangly stones soon!

::sigh:: Someday I'll have an expendable income. Then I'll finally get my Richard Homer topaz, my sapphire asscher band, and start my bracelet project.

Oh yes, someday!

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:59:24 PM
Author: mercoledi
YAY LS!!! Woo hoo! Do you get to play with it next, or does it go straight to Leon? Does Leon even know he's been drafted?

Happy day!

Jeff White will babysit it for now. Once I have decided who is making the ring, he'll ship it directly there. I am in Canada, and see no point in having JW ship it to me, go through customs, then ME ship it back to the US for fabrication. I trust Jeff's eye implicitely and we've have had many discussions about the specific colour I'm looking for. So in spite of my wanting to play with it for a while, I'd rather he just hold it and then ship it out directly.

I don't know that I'm going to have Leon do the ring. The one on his site that I love will be similar to what I'll end up with (his ruby cluster is a 3.5-something oval/cushion). This ring will involve some tweaking and changes in the design. I'm drafting my own CADs for now until I kind of nail the size of the melee and pears/trillions (what are they anyways? Kites?)

So I've decided to contact Leon again (I tried a while back to get him to quote the ruby ring without the centre stone but didn't have much luck on the communication front). I've also been in touch with Lesley @ WF, and I might consider Maytal Hannah. I'm not 100% comfortable with Mr. Mege, frankly. Especially because the ring-making process will all be done via e-mail and phone.

Do any of you have other suggestions? I'm not totally determined that this be a Leon, as I may not go with Platinum...that's up in the air. So if I go WG Leon won't do it anyways.

 

[mercoledi]

Gottcha. No reason to pay customs twice. Heck, maybe you should fly into wherever to pick it up and wear it back. Really Leon''s gift is tiny tiny pave, and you''re thinking a substantial halo. WF and Maytal do beautiful work. Maybe Ocean? She works with Wink and did Cehrabehra''s ring in white gold. There was some drama in that exchange, but the final product was stunning.

It really is a killer stone at a ridiculous price. Congrats!

(can we see your CADs when they''re tweaked?)

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 5:16:26 PM
Author: mercoledi
Gottcha. No reason to pay customs twice. Heck, maybe you should fly into wherever to pick it up and wear it back. Really Leon''s gift is tiny tiny pave, and you''re thinking a substantial halo. WF and Maytal do beautiful work. Maybe Ocean? She works with Wink and did Cehrabehra''s ring in white gold. There was some drama in that exchange, but the final product was stunning.

It really is a killer stone at a ridiculous price. Congrats!

(can we see your CADs when they''re tweaked?)

Thanks, I''ll search for a thread on Cehrabehra''s ring.

yeah, Killer Stone is right. I am amazed at the blue.

No, I dont show my CADs to anyone!!

I don''t do 3D very well so they are extremely rudimentary. I just did them to give me a sense of shape, scale, harmony and rhythm in the design.

But I''ll happily share WF CADs if that''s where this goes....Do Wink/Ocean do CADs?? I really want to see a CAD and that''s the other reason why I hesitate with Leon. If I was ordering *exactly* the same ruby cluster on his site, that would be an easy call. But this will be a bit different and I''m a bit OCD about design...so, LM may not work out for me.

 

[Skippy123]

What about Maytal Hannah? Here is a link to MooseJaw''s wife''s colored stone https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/new-photos-of-maytal-hoffman-ring-with-richard-homer-tsavorite.59499/

 

[mercoledi]

Cehra''s ring
PART of Cehra''s saga.

As for the CADs, Ocean did Gypsy''s asscher, but I don''t remember any CADs, just sketches. I think there have been other threads on custom-for-persnickety-people. Quest does CADs. Greenlake does CADs.

Whomever makes it, it''ll be one for the books!

 

[LtlFirecracker]

Date: 7/1/2008 4:00:56 PM
Author: LostSapphire
AND WHAT WAS LOST HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!!!

YIPPEEEEE

p.s. this is Jeff''s hand, not mine!

I am so happy for you!!!!! If this is kneelings stone, I have been in love with that thing since I saw it. I was hoping it went into good hands. That stone is just so amazing. I can''t wait to see how this develops!

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 5:38:20 PM
Author: Skippy123
What about Maytal Hannah? Here is a link to MooseJaw''s wife''s colored stone https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/new-photos-of-maytal-hoffman-ring-with-richard-homer-tsavorite.59499/

WHOAAAA I hadn''t seen that one!

thank you for that.

 

[LostSapphire]

Date: 7/1/2008 5:45:07 PM
Author: mercoledi
Cehra''s ring
PART of Cehra''s saga.

As for the CADs, Ocean did Gypsy''s asscher, but I don''t remember any CADs, just sketches. I think there have been other threads on custom-for-persnickety-people. Quest does CADs. Greenlake does CADs.

Whomever makes it, it''ll be one for the books!

Thank you Mercoledi. I''ve just spent the last hour going through those threads....oh the drama. That is not how I operate. I''m pretty cut and dried....so we''ll have to see.

I don''t want to work with an "artiste". This is a pretty straightforward project.

Maybe in the meantime I can just continue to tape the coloured-in CAD to my finger....