jstarfireb
Ideal_Rock
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I've been chronicling my progress at buying and setting gemstones in my projects thread, but this baby deserves its own thread. A few weeks ago Peter Torraca listed a new set of gemstones, and I inquired about a light green grossular garnet Asscher right away, but sadly someone else got to it first. Peter didn't have any more of the green grossular rough, but he offered to cut me a prasiolite Asscher from a particular new piece of rough with minimal gray. Then last week I got an email from him with this gorgeous photo:
The pic is very true to the color; there's maybe a little more yellow in real life, but it's a lovely soft minty green as you can see. I tried taking a few of my own pics tonight, but none of them came out very well.
Now for a question...which color gold do you think would be best? I'm not really a yellow gold person, unless I did a 2-tone ring like my alexandrite lotus. I'm waffling between rose and white gold...I have a chance to get a really pretty white gold setting for a good price, but I think rose gold might bring out the green in a better way. What do you guys think?
The pic is very true to the color; there's maybe a little more yellow in real life, but it's a lovely soft minty green as you can see. I tried taking a few of my own pics tonight, but none of them came out very well.
Now for a question...which color gold do you think would be best? I'm not really a yellow gold person, unless I did a 2-tone ring like my alexandrite lotus. I'm waffling between rose and white gold...I have a chance to get a really pretty white gold setting for a good price, but I think rose gold might bring out the green in a better way. What do you guys think?