Haven''t got the stone yet (shame on me) but guess what I''m looking at?

[exturkconner]

I think I would hurt myself wearing something with sharp corners like that. But then I'm a man and I have a beard and I tend to touch it and my face alot...so...I'm probably not the best to comment...all the same...ouch...ouch...

 

[Arcadian]

Date: 1/15/2010 5:14:20 PM
Author: exturkconner
I think I would hurt myself wearing something with sharp corners like that. But then I''m a man and I have a beard and I tend to touch it and my face alot...so...I''m probably not the best to comment...all the same...ouch...ouch...

I showed my husband those settings. He gave me the side eye and asked "what the hell is that?" lol He''s rather used to my weirdness, but this one rather threw him for a loop too.

For this stone, its probably not going to happen, but I have to get at least one

-A

 

[Cind11]

I have a citrine ring by this Etsy artist. I see him every year at the Ann Arbor art fair. I gave the ring back to him at the art fair a couple summers ago to have something done to it. It took me abour 4 mos. to get the ring. I had basically no communication from the guy. I actually started a claim with my insurance company because I didn''t think he was ever going to send me my ring. Anyway, where I''m going with this is that I would never buy anything from him again because I think he is less than reliable. He does have some cool stuff though.

 

[Arcadian]

wow Cind!

thanks for letting me know that. the stuff IS very cool but unreliablity from a jeweler dosen''t sit well with me.

-A

 

[Arcadian]

Guess what I got from UPS today?

First off, I love the T-shirt. No turtle but very very cute.


2nd, I almost missed it in my haste...lol

3rd....OMG the COLOR!!!!

4th, I should have bit the bullet and went BIGGER

But for now, thats ok, I will some day

By the time UPS got here it was already quite dark, so these pictures aren''t the best but you get an idea of how glowy it is.


-A

 

[Arcadian]

By the window. Its getting dark and we had no sun today. This is NOT the setting I'm going to use but one that I have hanging around empty.

 

[Arcadian]

A bit closer. This is for sure a white gold stone.

 

[Arcadian]

Trying again. Incandescent lights.

 

[Arcadian]

Its VERY hard to get a pic of this stone by itself because its nothing but super pure green. I''ll have to try again when I actually have the darn thing set into something lol..

-A

 

[Cind11]

Lovely stone!!!!! What size is it again?

 

[Arcadian]

Date: 1/18/2010 5:20:22 PM
Author: Cind11
Lovely stone!!!!! What size is it again?

Its roughly a 6x8mm stone. Swala''s measurements are 6.2x7.7






-A

 

[chrono]

Nice spectral green! Definitely a white metal setting.

 

[T L]

Hi Arcadian,
I see no green nail polish today.

It''s a beautiful stone. Would you say it''s medium or medium dark in tone?

 

[packrat]

Yowza that''s some green now! I always love your polish too!

 

[Arkteia]

A-a-ah!

 

[Arcadian]

Thanks all.

No green nail polish unfortunately as it didn''t match.

Thats nail polish from this weekend which matches the mahenge spinel

.

The coloring of the pics are a bit off because I took them with no light filler at all and the light meter sometimes doesn''t like that. The stone is definitly a medium green. Even in the little natural light I had at 4pm it still glowed like no tomorrow.

Cutting is good, does have a tilt window but the setting I have in mind should take care of that. No window straight on at all. In incandescent light you see more of the blue undertone than in natural light IRL( I find that very interesting).

Also with the cutting the color ripples across, it really neat to watch.

The one thing that I had hoped for was that it wouldn''t go flat in my home office. It did.

Most stones do. However it still shows its true color which is most important in there.

I didn''t take any pics in the bathroom as my husband change bulbs but didn''t use the right type in there. (I look alien gray in the bathroom now...blah!!!

) If I don''t get any sunlight in the next few days, I''ll try there as soon as he changes the bulbs again.


I knew I''d be happy with it color wise. Size wise is another story....I need to get me a sugar daddy....lol.


BTW packrat, I did see a nail polish called go go greenlight (it may come close, I''m going to have to check it out

)


I do have a tsav stacker ring which is rather cute, I''m thinking it will work with this stone pretty well. Only one question. under black lights, the stones in my tsav stacker ring glow red and this stone dosen''t. does this mean they''re colored by different minerals?





-A

 

[T L]

Date: 1/18/2010 11:43:33 PM
Author: Arcadian
Thanks all.

No green nail polish unfortunately as it didn''t match.

Thats nail polish from this weekend which matches the mahenge spinel

.

The coloring of the pics are a bit off because I took them with no light filler at all and the light meter sometimes doesn''t like that. The stone is definitly a medium green. Even in the little natural light I had at 4pm it still glowed like no tomorrow.

Cutting is good, does have a tilt window but the setting I have in mind should take care of that. No window straight on at all. In incandescent light you see more of the blue undertone than in natural light IRL( I find that very interesting).

Also with the cutting the color ripples across, it really neat to watch.

The one thing that I had hoped for was that it wouldn''t go flat in my home office. It did.

Most stones do. However it still shows its true color which is most important in there.

I didn''t take any pics in the bathroom as my husband change bulbs but didn''t use the right type in there. (I look alien gray in the bathroom now...blah!!!

) If I don''t get any sunlight in the next few days, I''ll try there as soon as he changes the bulbs again.


I knew I''d be happy with it color wise. Size wise is another story....I need to get me a sugar daddy....lol.


BTW packrat, I did see a nail polish called go go greenlight (it may come close, I''m going to have to check it out

)


I do have a tsav stacker ring which is rather cute, I''m thinking it will work with this stone pretty well. Only one question. under black lights, the stones in my tsav stacker ring glow red and this stone dosen''t. does this mean they''re colored by different minerals?





-A

I recall asking this question not too long ago (please don''t ask me to find the original post), but those that glow red have chromium (they may have vanadium too, but they also have chromium). The ones strictly colored by vanadium do not glow red. The strange thing about that is that my tsavorite does not glow red under the UV lighting, but it does under my chelsea filter (????). My lighter grossular green garnet, glows an eerie pink!!

The experts told me that was due to chromium content in the stone.

 

[Arcadian]

Thanks TL, thats very interesting. I wonder how much that varies by location? the stacker I got from overstock, so have no idea bout the location on that one.

-A

 

[Lovinggems]

It''s so green, my favourite colour!

Shame the Etsy seller is unreliable, I like model E1014.

 

[Laila619]

Beautiful stone Arcadian!

 

[chrono]

Arcadian,
The chelsea filter is to check for chromium. Some tsavorites are coloured by only chromium, some only by vanadium, and some a combination of both. It seems that your new tsav has only vanadium as its colouring agent.

 

[icekid]

Definitely white gold! The color certainly does stand out

pretty!

 

[Bella_mezzo]

fantastic shade of green!

 

[T L]

Date: 1/19/2010 10:32:00 AM
Author: Chrono
Arcadian,
The chelsea filter is to check for chromium. Some tsavorites are coloured by only chromium, some only by vanadium, and some a combination of both. It seems that your new tsav has only vanadium as its colouring agent.

According to some experts I spoke with on another site, they said some green grossulars glow pink/red on UV lighting also due to chromium. This doesn''t make much sense if my stone glows red through the chelsea, but doesn''t do so through the UV light. ??????????

 

[T L]

Date: 1/19/2010 10:44:32 AM
Author: icekid
Definitely white gold! The color certainly does stand out

pretty!

When I was at the Field Museum, there was a very deep green tsavorite in yellow gold in their gem collection, and that looked nice as well. I have a very blurry pic of it on my "Grainger Hall of gems" thread. MTG also has a deep green tsavorite in yellow gold. I set my tsavorite in white gold, and I think Arcadian''s stone looks great in WG too. I think deep green tsavorite is one of the few gems that you can''t go wrong with either metal color, WG or YG.

 

[chrono]

Date: 1/19/2010 11:26:09 AM
Author: tourmaline_lover
According to some experts I spoke with on another site, they said some green grossulars glow pink/red on UV lighting also due to chromium. This doesn''t make much sense if my stone glows red through the chelsea, but doesn''t do so through the UV light. ??????????

Did they explain if it''s short wave or long wave UV? Did they provide an explanation?

 

[T L]

Date: 1/19/2010 11:34:28 AM
Author: Chrono

Date: 1/19/2010 11:26:09 AM
Author: tourmaline_lover
According to some experts I spoke with on another site, they said some green grossulars glow pink/red on UV lighting also due to chromium. This doesn't make much sense if my stone glows red through the chelsea, but doesn't do so through the UV light. ??????????

Did they explain if it's short wave or long wave UV? Did they provide an explanation?

I think so, I'll have to show you the thread, but I can't post it here. I do remember it was very scientific with a graph to back it up. There's virtually no information on this phenonmenon on UV glow in green grossulars on the net otherwise, not that I could find anyways.

 

[Arcadian]

wow that is VERY interesting. I would LOVE to know if the coloring agent is dependant on the mine its from or not. I would think it would probably have to be. In between working last night I did some looking around TL, but didn''t find much. Sometimes I hate 24 hour days (ugh!) its been a very long one, and no sleep until 3-4.

BTW, I did put it against yellow gold. Its nice and would look fine in YG....but it also sort of mellows out and does not pop as much as with the white.




-A

 

[chrono]

Arcadian,
I’m not sure what you mean by looking “flat” in your home office while showing true colour. Is it less lively? Less brilliant and sparkly?

 

[Arcadian]

Date: 1/20/2010 9:13:37 AM
Author: Chrono
Arcadian,
I’m not sure what you mean by looking “flat” in your home office while showing true colour. Is it less lively? Less brilliant and sparkly?

Just means that no gems sparkle in there period. All colors are flat, like looking at paint chips.


-A