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Brilliant_Rock
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- Jan 17, 2007
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yesterday i was looking at a sapphire (heated, no other treatments) i bought from a recommended vendor and i was trying to do everything all professional-like and handle the stone with the tweezer things (i have some that came with my idealscope). everything was fine and then suddenly the stone popped out and hit the wall, and then the wood floor.
i''ve handled loose stones before and have dropped them once or twice with no ill effects, but when i picked this stone up i immediately saw what appears to be a big chip in the side just under the girdle!!!
after closer examination in various lighting conditions and through the 5X magnification i had available, it looks like there is a chip there and that there are also two much smaller nicks on the edges where some of the pavilion facets come together. i feel like such a ruiner!!
so now i am definitely not returning the stone since i effectively broke the thing
(i was uncertain about it before). but if i''m going to keep it and use it, i''d like it to be in better shape than it is after my apparent mistreatment. i''m not sure what to do next. do i take it to someone local and have them check it out to confirm that it is chipped (that''s what it looks like to me, but who knows...)? should i try to have them polish it out? or do i send it back to the cutter and explain what happened and ask the cutter to see what they can do to fix the problem (polishing, recut, etc.)?
i am pretty upset -- while this wasn''t an expensive stone in the grand scheme of things, it wasn''t free either! plus, while i know that no stone is invincible, isn''t this supposed to be a fairly sturdy stone? should i be concerned that it chipped so easily?
obviously i need to handle stones differently in the future (no more tweezers!!!), but now i need to figure out what to do with this one. thanks in advance for your advice!
so now i am definitely not returning the stone since i effectively broke the thing
i am pretty upset -- while this wasn''t an expensive stone in the grand scheme of things, it wasn''t free either! plus, while i know that no stone is invincible, isn''t this supposed to be a fairly sturdy stone? should i be concerned that it chipped so easily?
obviously i need to handle stones differently in the future (no more tweezers!!!), but now i need to figure out what to do with this one. thanks in advance for your advice!