Logan Sapphire
Ideal_Rock
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Jerry received my sapphire and emailed with bad news. The stone apparently is way too shallow and the window takes up almost the entire table, which is much worse than I think he or I had anticipated (I guess being set closed up the appearance of the window somewhat?).
He said he could do a drastic recut to make it into a much better stone, but that would mean going from a 1.41ct to definitely under 1 ct and clearly unable to fit back into its halo setting. Or, he could cut it as best as he could to keep the same face up size, but would mean a window would still be visible when the stone was tilted beween 1/2 to 3 degrees (depending on how he can cut it). He said he'd be able to tell very quickly if the compromised angles will work or not, at which point I'd be able to give the green light for the more drastic recut.
The cost of doing the drastic recut would obviously increase, but it's not that big of a deal. I'm just torn on what to do.
Thoughts?
ETA- here are two pics of the loose stone- you can see the sizeable window.
He said he could do a drastic recut to make it into a much better stone, but that would mean going from a 1.41ct to definitely under 1 ct and clearly unable to fit back into its halo setting. Or, he could cut it as best as he could to keep the same face up size, but would mean a window would still be visible when the stone was tilted beween 1/2 to 3 degrees (depending on how he can cut it). He said he'd be able to tell very quickly if the compromised angles will work or not, at which point I'd be able to give the green light for the more drastic recut.
The cost of doing the drastic recut would obviously increase, but it's not that big of a deal. I'm just torn on what to do.
Thoughts?
ETA- here are two pics of the loose stone- you can see the sizeable window.