Garnet Gimlet
Rough_Rock
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2014
- Messages
- 35
Hi P.S.ers,
So I bought a beautiful sphene from Jason Brim just a little while ago. I had figured I'd hold off on setting it for a while, but there was a great opportunity to set it, so I went ahead. There is a local jewler, whose shop I had walked by a million times in the past decade who is liquidating his stock so he can retire. I had just bought a lovely little ring from this jeweler, and he had a beautiful pendant setting in 14K that was a great price. So I went for it.
I went back to pick up my pendant, and the setting was lovely. No chips around the edges of the stone. It looked beautiful. I got to my car, looked at it closer without a two year old struggling in my arms, and noticed what looked like a bubble in it. I turned it over and found a bit of goop on the back. I scraped some of it off, figuring maybe it was a weird apoxy that got stuck, and I realized that it was covering a huge, irregular chip on the cutlet.
I went back in, talked to the jewler, and he acted surprised the chip was there. I told him that the stone certainly didn't look like that when I dropped it off. He said if it really bothered me, he'd take it down to a local lapidary and put some facets where the chip was.
So now what do I do? I don't have a problem with him trying to fix the stone, but how? Cut is so important, especially on a sphene. Will he have to cut down the whole thing to make the dimensions right? And if he doesn't, will it just look bad? Im afraid it will come back looking much worse than when I gave it to him. What is fair to ask in terms of making it right? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
So I bought a beautiful sphene from Jason Brim just a little while ago. I had figured I'd hold off on setting it for a while, but there was a great opportunity to set it, so I went ahead. There is a local jewler, whose shop I had walked by a million times in the past decade who is liquidating his stock so he can retire. I had just bought a lovely little ring from this jeweler, and he had a beautiful pendant setting in 14K that was a great price. So I went for it.
I went back to pick up my pendant, and the setting was lovely. No chips around the edges of the stone. It looked beautiful. I got to my car, looked at it closer without a two year old struggling in my arms, and noticed what looked like a bubble in it. I turned it over and found a bit of goop on the back. I scraped some of it off, figuring maybe it was a weird apoxy that got stuck, and I realized that it was covering a huge, irregular chip on the cutlet.
I went back in, talked to the jewler, and he acted surprised the chip was there. I told him that the stone certainly didn't look like that when I dropped it off. He said if it really bothered me, he'd take it down to a local lapidary and put some facets where the chip was.
So now what do I do? I don't have a problem with him trying to fix the stone, but how? Cut is so important, especially on a sphene. Will he have to cut down the whole thing to make the dimensions right? And if he doesn't, will it just look bad? Im afraid it will come back looking much worse than when I gave it to him. What is fair to ask in terms of making it right? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.