Hi,
Being a persistant sort, I am still searching for my tsavorite! Every so often I drop a line to a few vendors with whom I have had contact. Jaimeen from Prima contacted me and has a 6.4 round tsavorite. In his e-mail he mentioned that the stone is forest green and very well cut. He also mentioned that he has a few mahenge spinels as I had mentioned that those are my second favorite colored stones.
I don't think the stone he has will fit in the pendant without metal showing underneath. The previous owner of the pendant had a 7mm round in the pendant for a good reason. As for the mahenge, I don't think that I am ready to give up on a tsavorite by any means but I am already thinking about my next project (mahenge ring) so I am getting tempted. I have never purchased a colored stone before (except for one that I returned and I did learn from that experience). I know how to hold the stone, to try to look at it under as many lighting conditions as possible, and I can now tell if a stone is windowed and is showing too much extinction but hue/tone/saturation is still hard for me to see on my own, even though I know what I want and understand what I should be looking for.
Obviously, experience is important and but if anyone has a few tips on evaluating stones in person that I am missing, please let me know.
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Being a persistant sort, I am still searching for my tsavorite! Every so often I drop a line to a few vendors with whom I have had contact. Jaimeen from Prima contacted me and has a 6.4 round tsavorite. In his e-mail he mentioned that the stone is forest green and very well cut. He also mentioned that he has a few mahenge spinels as I had mentioned that those are my second favorite colored stones.
I don't think the stone he has will fit in the pendant without metal showing underneath. The previous owner of the pendant had a 7mm round in the pendant for a good reason. As for the mahenge, I don't think that I am ready to give up on a tsavorite by any means but I am already thinking about my next project (mahenge ring) so I am getting tempted. I have never purchased a colored stone before (except for one that I returned and I did learn from that experience). I know how to hold the stone, to try to look at it under as many lighting conditions as possible, and I can now tell if a stone is windowed and is showing too much extinction but hue/tone/saturation is still hard for me to see on my own, even though I know what I want and understand what I should be looking for.
Obviously, experience is important and but if anyone has a few tips on evaluating stones in person that I am missing, please let me know.
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