GIA triple excellent but score 3.6 in HCA!

[Agent9]

Date: 12/22/2008 3:44:44 PM
Author: Wink
Holy Cow! Not me! I first saw that thread after it had reached four or five hundred pages and never had time to go read it, then it fell off the front page and it was out of site, out of mind, plus, when was I going to find the several hours I needed to read it???


Your pictures make me wish I had made the time. Sigh, maybe next year I can find a week to do all the things I never quite got to this year...


Wink


P.S. Nice Polish on that ring too!

Can you please point me to the post you are talking about. I was intrigued by the pictures. Thanks.

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 1/6/2009 3:26:07 AM
Author: Agent9

Date: 12/22/2008 3:44:44 PM
Author: Wink
Holy Cow! Not me! I first saw that thread after it had reached four or five hundred pages and never had time to go read it, then it fell off the front page and it was out of site, out of mind, plus, when was I going to find the several hours I needed to read it???


Your pictures make me wish I had made the time. Sigh, maybe next year I can find a week to do all the things I never quite got to this year...


Wink


P.S. Nice Polish on that ring too!

Can you please point me to the post you are talking about. I was intrigued by the pictures. Thanks.

Hi Agent9, https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/the-fire-thread.51563/
Ellen''s famous "the fire thread" - fun reading..we''ll see you in about an hour, lol...

 

[Indira-London]

Date: 12/22/2008 1:40:13 AM
Author: Garry H (Cut Nut)

Date: 12/22/2008 1:28:08 AM
Author: tunge
been reading up more on the Holloway Cut Advisor...

i guess i shouldn''t be too worried abt the low score.

the link Kelli posted suggests you should - she wrote this:
I had a GIA excellent cut that scored very similarly to yours on the HCA, and unfortunately, I did see that it wasn''t the best cut. It drove me nuts until I finally decided to have it recut. Since being recut, what a difference! I don''t want to be the bearer of bad news, but most diamonds will sparkle in the window by sunlight. If you want your diamond to be a stunner, my advice is to look for a better cut. CUT IS KING if you''re looking for the best sparkle you can get. I would not choose a diamond for color and size when the cut is lacking. To show you the difference cut can make, I''ll post before and after shots of mine. You''ll notice that the before picture looks pretty all blown up, but the ''after'' pic is SOOOO much brighter, and the brightness in real life makes such a difference. Also, the better cut you have in a diamond, the whiter it will appear. So an ideal cut H is most likely going to look whiter than a so-so cut F anyway. You can really see that in my pics.

Can you return it?
It will suffer mostly when it is dirty.

What an excellent thread! Thanks to all the posters for making this well worth a read despite its long length!

Given the discussion so far, I am sure that I am not the only one who would love to see Gary''s photos of before and after recutting his Excellent GIA diamond