New blue tourmaline, help?

[MakingTheGrade]

With WG

 

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Last one, with Flash!
Sorry some of these were so big!

 

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The color is a lovely vibrant blue (the touch of green is exaggerated by the camera and by my yellow lighting), the only thing I don't like (or perhaps just unused to) is the fact that I can pretty much always see a window. But I think this is just the nature of tourmalines?

 

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Here are some in what is left of the overcast daylight, it shows the blue better though. You can also see what I mean about the windows never really going away.

 

[Catmom]

The color is absolutely amazing. I love it!!!!!

 

[brandy_z28]

If you don''t keep it, I want it!!

I''m going to vote yellow gold.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 9/17/2009 6:18:38 PM
Author: brandy_z28

I''m going to vote yellow gold.

Haha, that''s funny since once I saw it in person I started leaning towards WG since that might bring out the blue even more.

 

[LtlFirecracker]

It is very pretty, darker than I thought it would be (which is not a bad thing), and full of sparkle.

Now that I see it, I would lean more towards a prong setting.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 9/17/2009 7:33:03 PM
Author: LtlFirecracker
It is very pretty, darker than I thought it would be (which is not a bad thing), and full of sparkle.


Now that I see it, I would lean more towards a prong setting.

Thanks Lt! Part of it seeming darker is probably the dim lighting in my apartment. The last collage of it in daylight is probably more representative of normal outdoor lighting. It is a bit darker and deeper than pictured, but I like that actually.

 

[jstarfireb]

Date: 9/17/2009 6:21:30 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade

Date: 9/17/2009 6:18:38 PM

Author: brandy_z28

I'm going to vote yellow gold.

Haha, that's funny since once I saw it in person I started leaning towards WG since that might bring out the blue even more.

Ditto on the white gold, but you already know my preference toward WG for...pretty much everything.

ETA: Silver would work too.

 

[ma re]

Untill you said that green is not as obvious as photos would suggest, I was actually thinking that it would be interesting to bring out that green with yellow gold. But if it''s barely noticable, I say stick with white. About the window - seems like extinction to me, not a window, but it''s so little of it that it wouldn''t bother me. It''s a really lovely stone.

 

[T L]

Wow, very nice color!! I think yellow gold would be nice, it would bring out some green in the stone so it doesn''t look so aqua or blue topaz like.

 

[Deia]

It''s gorgeous! I had inquired about that stone when I saw it a few months back but I had just bought the spinel (I think it was around that time) and I didn''t want to spend 250 on it.

So glad a PSer got it! It really is very pretty

 

[chrono]

Looks like a keeper to me. It’s not easy trying to find the perfect blue tourmaline that isn’t overly dark. Not to mention that it’s rare to obtain any in a round cut too. It might have some issues with it, but I consider it minor, not enough to return the stone.

 

[Barrett]

wow talk about color..good god that is blue..very nice

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 9/18/2009 6:16:52 AM
Author: tourmaline_lover
Wow, very nice color!! I think yellow gold would be nice, it would bring out some green in the stone so it doesn''t look so aqua or blue topaz like.

Thanks TL, that''s a good point.
It''s a bit on the teal side, especially when I put it next to the sapphire, but I''m still trying to decide if that''s something I would want to accentuate or downplay.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 9/18/2009 3:27:33 AM
Author: ma re
Untill you said that green is not as obvious as photos would suggest, I was actually thinking that it would be interesting to bring out that green with yellow gold. But if it''s barely noticable, I say stick with white. About the window - seems like extinction to me, not a window, but it''s so little of it that it wouldn''t bother me. It''s a really lovely stone.

The green is definitely there and noticeable, but it''s just sometimes more noticeable than others depending on the lighting. Most of these were taken indoors with yellow bulbs, so I don''t think in daylight it may be as green as in some of these photos where it looks almost more green than blue. I wish I could see what it looks like in daylight, but it looks like another overcast rainy day.

I guess I just assumed since the blue color was the main selling point, that it would be best to downplay the green component.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Thanks Chrono, Deia, and Amethystguy!

I did decide to keep it since I didn''t want to risk not being able to get this color blue again in a tourmaline, and as is always true in Colored Stones: color comes first! Hehe.

 

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Sun was out for a bit, so I took some better pics, hope you don''t mind.

 

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Hehe, I wore a blue sweater for comparison

 

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I have chubby little hands, haha.

 

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Against the white metal of my rings.

 

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The best I could get for the cut to show up, it''s in the shadow of my hand, on my desk

 

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Aaannnd no idea how to set it.. :/
Off to browse the web for inspiration

 

[chrono]

It looks great with your sweater.

Have you placed it next to something yellow or copperish? I was wondering if these 2 other metals might play up or play down the blue colour.