Precision Purple Spinel

[arjunajane]

Thanks Cind

I''m glad it looks just like on the site.


Hey again Jstar - yeah, that tripped me up the first time too.

Cheers SDL - pretty new av!


Hi BA, thanks hon! Any progress on the tourmaline setting yet?


Thankyou szh07

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/7/2009 5:45:57 PM
Author: pwendyp
oh AJ!


It''s not often I am seriously jealous of someone''e gemstone - but this one is absolutely breathtaking - congratulations on a stunningly beautiful stone. Of course, Gene helped!!


I look forward to seeing what you do with this one!


I did consider this stone, after seeing an amethyst (long oval - that got snapped up) - and loving the long shape of the oval.


It''s gorgeous - enjoy it!!

Thankys Wendy,
you also have such nice things to say.
Well, that balances out ok as I am envious of a number of your collection!

I am enjoying it thankyou- I''ve been driving around with the gem box sitting in a lil enclave on my dash where it catches the sun all the time - fun..but distracting, lol!

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/8/2009 10:44:51 AM
Author: Linda W
I love it AJ, the color is really gorgeous. I really like how the color shifts too.


I can''t wait to see how you set it, you have the best collection too.

Thankyou Linda - yes, it does have quite a good colour shift from sun to incandescent light.

(Does anyone know, is this typical of spinels?)

Fortunately, there is not really a lighting where it looks bad - even in low lighting it still sparkles.

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/8/2009 11:45:39 AM
Author: packrat
Ack, I was at work yesterday, sneaking on here and saw this-ohhhh it''s just so beautiful! Ha, I apparently made some sort of noise when I was looking at the pictures-my front coworker turned around and loooked at me and she''s like ''Jeez Missi do you need to be alone?'' hahaha.


It''s gorgeous AJ and I so look forward to what you do with it! I like yellow gold...however, we just don''t see enough rose gold I don''t think!

rofl! pack, I love the image of you making funny sounds whilst viewing gems of all things - I wonder what your co worker thought?!

I like YG too...everything I make is yellow gold!
I was hoping it would work with a white metal like LIB''s awesome purple spinel ring..but mine doesn''t seem to like it..
we''ll see.

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/8/2009 12:59:25 PM
Author: TravelingGal

Date: 10/8/2009 9:51:22 AM

Author: arjunajane

Date: 10/7/2009 6:03:43 PM

Author: TravelingGal

You know how to pick em AJ! I love it. Wish my elongated oval was cut as nice...this one is a winner and can''t wait to see what you do with it!

Cheers Tgal - my ''collection'' is slowly but surely growing - not much compared to most around here! But I do really love each stone I own.

Which oval of yours are you referring to hon?


I''m open to any suggestions for the setting on this one!

My oval is my pad...it''s on the elongated side. I haven''t seen the stone in awhile so I don''t remember much about it. I''ll get the ring tomorrow so we''ll see if I can recommend Leon''s 5 stone setting.

Ah of course!
Man, I can''t wait to see this ring - please do post asap Tgal

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/8/2009 1:37:30 PM
Author: ma re
AJ, rose would surely be fine too, but I really think yellow would bring out all it''s faces in the most elegant way. Of course, it''s all down to preference so do what you think would suit you best, and what you''d enjoy the most

You''re likely correct ma re..
I did hold it up against yellow, white and rose gold rings today and YG did seem the nicest.

 

[StonieGrl]

That is one splendiferous spinel! Can''t wait to see that set. Please do share when that comes to be!

 

[BWise]

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[chictomato]

Pretty ! I was eyeing on it then

 

[Indylady]

AJ, I can''t help but keep coming back to this thread. Once again, its beautiful!

 

[CharmyPoo]

The stone is gorgeous!!

 

[arjunajane]

ah, I didn''t realize this thread was back up -

Thankyou kindly everyone for the new comments.

It really is a cool stone and I''m glad I grabbed it up.

I don''t have any ideas atm, but I will share for sure when I do re. the setting.

Cheers again!

 

[T L]

AJJ,
Missed this thread. Congrats on your lovely new spinel.

 

[Gailey]

Well lookie here, it''s been sitting under my nose for days and I didn''t notice - bad Gailey.

AJ, it''s a gorgeous stone and if it''s going into a ring it will be so elegant. I vote for skinny half moon sides, not sure what colour (of course diamonds always work), but your stone looks so different in most of your shots, so picking a contrasting colour would be difficult for me. Also, difficult for me to describe how I think the setting should look, but I have a long skinny oval amber in a silver ring upstairs. I''ll go photograph it to give you an idea.

 

[arjunajane]

Thanks ladies!

Gailey, great minds think alike - I love the half moon idea, and that would be still reasonably affordable in the sizes that would be needed in diamond. Perhaps also white sapphire?
(as far as the colour, Gene's photo is really the most representative of viewing in natural light).

I also like this

As to matching another colour - the only ones I can think atm that would work would be mahenge spinels (or maybe hot pink sapphires?)..
That would sure be different!

What do ya reckon..? Does anyone wanna dare me to try and find a matching pair of fine mahenge spinels cut in half moons to accompany my purple spinel?..lol..

 

[ma re]

AJ I have a tough time understanding your posts again

Are you saying that you''d like something similar to that last photo you posted - in which case I''m all for it, as that''s one of the rare all-white pieces of jewellery that made me look again (and again...) in quite some time. It''s really something.

BTW, I might be wrong, but I think you could mix some rhodolites or amethysts with that spinel, and when it comes to shape, trillion seems like something that could work nicely with that elongated oval.

Enjoy the ride!

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/16/2009 1:12:05 PM
Author: ma re
AJ I have a tough time understanding your posts again

Are you saying that you'd like something similar to that last photo you posted - in which case I'm all for it, as that's one of the rare all-white pieces of jewellery that made me look again (and again...) in quite some time. It's really something.


BTW, I might be wrong, but I think you could mix some rhodolites or amethysts with that spinel, and when it comes to shape, trillion seems like something that could work nicely with that elongated oval.


Enjoy the ride!

Hrmm..
sorry, I didn't know that I confuse you ma re!
No no, I'm just using that ring as an example of design, with the bullet sides and oval centre - clearly, we would be talking about my spinel as the centre here, not a diamond

I like your idea of rhodolites by the way - but honestly, I have a number of other projects in line before this one..so this is really just "musing".

 

[Gailey]

Date: 10/16/2009 11:41:29 AM
Author: arjunajane
Thanks ladies!

Gailey, great minds think alike - I love the half moon idea, and that would be still reasonably affordable in the sizes that would be needed in diamond. Perhaps also white sapphire?
(as far as the colour, Gene''s photo is really the most representative of viewing in natural light).

I also like this

As to matching another colour - the only ones I can think atm that would work would be mahenge spinels (or maybe hot pink sapphires?)..
That would sure be different!

What do ya reckon..? Does anyone wanna dare me to try and find a matching pair of fine mahenge spinels cut in half moons to accompany my purple spinel?..lol..

AJ, I think that your oval might look a tad skinny with baguettes set in the way you show in the picture. Hence my suggestion of skinny half moons (can''t imagine they will be easy to come by, but I may be wrong).

As to the hot pink sapphire or mahenge spinels, if you look at the "Calling Chrono" thread you will see that thiis is potentially more difficult to find than skinny half moonn diamonds. I suspect either will be as rare as rocking horse doo-doo off the peg.

But of course you never know, and as always I will keep my eyes peeled for you.

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/16/2009 1:42:46 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 10/16/2009 11:41:29 AM

Author: arjunajane

Thanks ladies!


Gailey, great minds think alike - I love the half moon idea, and that would be still reasonably affordable in the sizes that would be needed in diamond. Perhaps also white sapphire?

(as far as the colour, Gene''s photo is really the most representative of viewing in natural light).


I also like this

As to matching another colour - the only ones I can think atm that would work would be mahenge spinels (or maybe hot pink sapphires?)..

That would sure be different!


What do ya reckon..? Does anyone wanna dare me to try and find a matching pair of fine mahenge spinels cut in half moons to accompany my purple spinel?..lol..

AJ, I think that your oval might look a tad skinny with baguettes set in the way you show in the picture. Hence my suggestion of skinny half moons (can''t imagine they will be easy to come by, but I may be wrong).


As to the hot pink sapphire or mahenge spinels, if you look at the ''Calling Chrono'' thread you will see that thiis is potentially more difficult to find than skinny half moonn diamonds. I suspect either will be as rare as rocking horse doo-doo off the peg.


But of course you never know, and as always I will keep my eyes peeled for you.

Ya, good point Gailey - the half moons would be really elegant, I think it would be lovely.
That would put me up to...ohh, only a meager 4 x different 3 stone rings - not too much?

What do you think, yellow or white metal? I reckon if I could get someone to source the half moons, JKT could do this ring very nicely in gold..

Now you got me thinking, G, lol! This one was planned to just sit and wait for at least for awhile, ha ha..

I have absolutely no idea what your horse doo doo comment means

But if it''s what I suspect, than yes, I assumed getting a matching pair of nice mahenge in any cut would be a crazy task.

I think Barry would have some nice rubellite-type colour tourms which would do the trick for a pink and purple ring...or like ma re suggested, tanga garnets..

But honestly I''m liking diamonds with purple - I''ve always adored LIB''s purple spinel ring, that was one of the first CS rings I really took notice of.

 

[Stone Hunter]

WOW that''s just an amazing stone. It must be very well cut! The cut keeps showing in all of your photos. And the color is lovely too. Congrats!!!

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/16/2009 11:07:33 PM
Author: Stone Hunter
WOW that''s just an amazing stone. It must be very well cut! The cut keeps showing in all of your photos. And the color is lovely too. Congrats!!!

Cheers SH! it is definitely that - I have to admit, the facets are just as crisp in RL as in the photos.

 

[Gailey]

Date: 10/16/2009 10:59:17 PM
Author: arjunajane

Date: 10/16/2009 1:42:46 PM
Author: Gailey

Date: 10/16/2009 11:41:29 AM

Author: arjunajane

Thanks ladies!


Gailey, great minds think alike - I love the half moon idea, and that would be still reasonably affordable in the sizes that would be needed in diamond. Perhaps also white sapphire?

(as far as the colour, Gene''s photo is really the most representative of viewing in natural light).


I also like this

As to matching another colour - the only ones I can think atm that would work would be mahenge spinels (or maybe hot pink sapphires?)..

That would sure be different!


What do ya reckon..? Does anyone wanna dare me to try and find a matching pair of fine mahenge spinels cut in half moons to accompany my purple spinel?..lol..

AJ, I think that your oval might look a tad skinny with baguettes set in the way you show in the picture. Hence my suggestion of skinny half moons (can''t imagine they will be easy to come by, but I may be wrong).


As to the hot pink sapphire or mahenge spinels, if you look at the ''Calling Chrono'' thread you will see that thiis is potentially more difficult to find than skinny half moonn diamonds. I suspect either will be as rare as rocking horse doo-doo off the peg.


But of course you never know, and as always I will keep my eyes peeled for you.

Ya, good point Gailey - the half moons would be really elegant, I think it would be lovely.
That would put me up to...ohh, only a meager 4 x different 3 stone rings - not too much?

What do you think, yellow or white metal? I reckon if I could get someone to source the half moons, JKT could do this ring very nicely in gold..

Now you got me thinking, G, lol! This one was planned to just sit and wait for at least for awhile, ha ha..

I have absolutely no idea what your horse doo doo comment means

But if it''s what I suspect, than yes, I assumed getting a matching pair of nice mahenge in any cut would be a crazy task.

I think Barry would have some nice rubellite-type colour tourms which would do the trick for a pink and purple ring...or like ma re suggested, tanga garnets..

But honestly I''m liking diamonds with purple - I''ve always adored LIB''s purple spinel ring, that was one of the first CS rings I really took notice of.

For you AJ: Rare as rocking horse doo-doo

Let''s just say, if it was me and I could afford and find them, skinny half moon diamonds it would be. What cutter in his right mind is going to take a piece of good mahenge spinel rough that he could get significantly more for by cutting one big stone and choosing to cut a couple of skinny half moons instead? Similarly, what consumer in their right mind is going to pay through the nose for a pair of skinny mahenge half moons, when for the price she could get a nice big centre stone?

I''m not sure if my analogy the reason that you don''t see good quality side stones, Leon doesn''t seem to have a problem finding them, so who knows.

Got a link to LIB''s purple spinel?

 

[arjunajane]

ha ha, ok thanks for the explanation - it was the "off the peg" bit that threw me!

Yes, Leon seems to find everything doesn''t he?..lol..

With re to the mahenge half moons - I guess, if I had the $ and it was something I *really really* wanted - well, if the cutter is willing to do it, then that''s that.
Than again, you never know what smaller pieces of rough are out there that could be matched, correct?anyways..

But I understand and agree with your reasoning, of course! It would likely be quite prohibitively exxy, unless it was a project you were consumed with completing (which I am not, luckily, he he)..

Here ya go, LIB''s grape jelly in Van Craeynest
gorgeous photos, too.

 

[Gailey]

Thanks for posting LIB''s ring AJ, but I wish you hadn''t! Now I want one too!!

And I am always happy to translate the finer examples of our wonderful language: Off-the-peg

And with that, I think it is time for Gailey to get off her soapbox (seems she''s been on it too long today) and wind her way up the "apples and pears"

Night AJ

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/17/2009 1:27:19 AM
Author: Gailey
Thanks for posting LIB''s ring AJ, but I wish you hadn''t! Now I want one too!!


And I am always happy to translate the finer examples of our wonderful language: Off-the-peg


And with that, I think it is time for Gailey to get off her soapbox (seems she''s been on it too long today) and wind her way up the ''apples and pears''


Night AJ

ha ha, you''re a crack up Gailey - cheers for the quirky links.
That''s right I forget you''re a Pom, right?
I''ve always loved the rhyming slang you guys use, it''s heaps of fun

Yup, LIB''s ring is for sure a chicken dinner

Night night!

 

[loriken214]

WOW...HOW DID I MISS THIS GORGEOUS BEAUTY????

Lori

 

[arjunajane]

Date: 10/17/2009 2:02:58 AM
Author: loriken214
WOW...HOW DID I MISS THIS GORGEOUS BEAUTY????

Lori

You tell me missy!

ha ha, just j/k..
cheers Lori!