Would smacking your diamond (not REALLY hard)

[ame]

off your car window cause any damage to the stone?

 

[Patty]

Ame, honey, RELAX! Put away the loop and breathe deeply. I'm sure your diamond is fine.

 

[ame]

I know I know. I was at Hardees this morning (BigBend at 44) and rolled up my window before she gave me the change (had the sammich) and smacked it against the window (not really hard but hard enough to make me freak). I have panicked all day about it.

Im a nut I know.

 

[Patty]

LOL. First of all, you worry too much. Second of all, IF your diamond would crack or chip, you do have insurance! Enjoy it and stop worrying so much.

 

[ame]

I know I know. My parents have considered calling a professional to hypnotize me and reprogram my head. haha My fiancee agrees.

Ill get it figured out eventually.

 

[JohnQuixote]

LOL. Ame, maybe you should have your window checked out instead.

 

[ame]

Im telling you I have mental problems. haha This is an obsession I cannot seem to beat.

 

[valeria101]

No... you need a nice sharp blow to halve a diamond - most likely the ring would be smshed first in the unfortunate event.

There is cheap therepy for what you describe: did you try to write on windown with a diamond

It definitely works

 

[Sparkster]

It was only weeks after I got my e-ring and I was standing in a cafe waiting for my toast when I stepped on something. Moving my foot to see what it was, I saw a clear object on the floor (the size of my diamond) and I freaked out, thinking the diamond had fallen out! You can imagine the relief I felt when I looked at my ring and saw the diamond was still there




So, you may be a nut, but it looks like you're not the only one!

 

[ame]

Id probably have had a heart attack then and there.

Im really showing my OCD I think. I just can't NOT check it constantly.

 

[DiamondDust]

Hi Ame, I don't know about car windows but, I once took a diamond in for repair and it came back cracked all the way through the stone.

They, of coarse, claim they didn't do it. Now when I have to leave any stone at the jewelers for repair I have the jeweler look at it and write down that there is no damage to the stone when it was dropped off and I have them sign it.

Just food for thought. You can never be to careful. This was a well known jeweler in my area and I am positive the stone was fine when it was left there. It won't happen to me a second time.

 

[Jennifer5973]

Thought of you today, ame--when I whacked my new ring on a door frame, the marble bathroom counter at work, and the kitchen table. This is unusual--i am normally very careful but I was so busy and rushed today, I got sloppy.

The thing is fine.

Edited: Inspired by you, I did just get out the loop--and had a heat attack that I saw a chip but I cleaned it and it was just dirt or lint.... You know, if I louped a couple of the bands I've worn for years, especially the eternity ones, I am sure there are microscopic nicks and tiny tiny sctatches, etc.... If we all sat around with a loupe all day we'd go nuts eventually (sounds like you've accelerated the process, though

)

 

[ame]

It was pretty much full swing long before I got the ring. haha~ Im bordering on clinically insane with a fatal allergy to normal.

I loupe it every morning usually. The light is better. Not like I smack it off a bunch of stuff but you can't be too careful! I forgot to put it on today. I will bang my hands around like all get out too. Just to get it out of my system. My mom smacks hers around a lot. She smacked it around in the sink last night and then got the loupe over it and showed me that Im a wack job. She probably did something good under a prong or something.

I hope in a year Im not nearly as bad. My friends are a lot more normal about it than me. But they are more normal anyway. Its OCD. When I wash it, I scrub with the little brush, then soak, then scrub more, then soak then rinse with hot water and dry with a tshirt. Around every tiny prong with the edge of my nail wrapped in cloth and do a quick check for specks. Then put it in the box, when I get up I set up next to my window and inspect it. If anything looks funny I check from in the car where the light is even better. Then I put it on. If theres somethign wrong I rush to the jewelers. And then they laugh at me. Luckily though they do check and sign a sheet saying it wasn't damaged when I dropped it off unless I specify something on the sheet. Then we both sign, time and date it. I keep a copy.

I wish I could not stare and obsess over little piddly crap. I just had a client call me about a half hour ago, I had send a bad file last night and called like everyone in that company (a newspaper and magazine) at 1145pm CST to let them know to delete it because I didn't want 200 computers to crash. haha! Then got in here at 645am CST (2ish hours early) to fix and resend that. They were just amazed with my anal retentive attention to detail. I was so mad at myself last night I almost had a panic attack. Working out and watching Queer eye I knew something was wrong...then I checked from home what I sent and almost died. Its a curse.

 

[Mara]

If you hit the diamond against an exposed feather that reaches the girdle, you could chip or cleave the diamond with the right knock and the wrong inclusion. Though I would tend to think that would be the exception and not the rule.

But if your girdle is clean or you hid your inclusions under (or flush against) prongs, you should be fine. It would take just the right knock in the right spot, as Val noted, to really do any big damage. Do you know where your inclusions are?

Over time we all will chip our diamonds. Our appraiser told us that it just happens. tiny nicks around the girdle that are invisible with the naked eye. Of course just after you get your stone you are a paranoid freak for a while, but then after a while it's just something you don't think about as much. Wear and tear will happen to anything worn daily on the hand which gets alot of play in life.

This is part of why we decided to get insurance. Also keep in mind that if you have a trade-in policy with a company...many times their policy requires that the diamond comes back to them looking the same as it did when they sold it. Hence no chips. This is why I plan to upgrade to a size I want as soon as possible since I am a clumsy gal with the hands and can't be responsible for what happens to the girdle over years of wear!

That's my excuse anyway.

Oh and speaking of car windows and diamonds, Greg scratched his windshield cleaning it with his ring on...it's a very tiny 1/2" line that he is actually proud of because it 'shows it's a real diamond'..HAH!