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G'day my friends!! 
As some of you may be aware, I am an Aussie boy who has a developing gem obsession and I am currently looking for a blue sapphire to set in a ring for my gorgeous wife (we just celebrated our first wedding anniversary 4 days ago, yay for us!!). I've been looking at various cabochon and faceted Aussie Sapphires for her, but that's a different thread. Rarely do I think about gemstones for myself, I look at them with my wife in mind. If you've followed any of my posts then you may know that I am a Death Metal bass guitarist who loves his fishing - so while I love gemstones, gems and jewelry are not exactly something you will find me adorning myself with. But I have been having the occasional thought and conversation with my wife as to what I would buy and how I might set it. So after some careful consideration as to what I might like in a ring, I have decided that I would most like a Painite.
Most people are probably wondering why I picked Painite. It has a Mohs hardness of 8.5 which would make it good for a ring, but it's not an aesthetically beautiful stone from the samples I have seen, it doesn't seem to be easy to find, is notoriously small and seems to have clarity issues - so let me try explain my fascination with Painite like this:
Once upon a time, every man currently around the age of 40 had a poster of a Lamborghini on his wall when he was a kid, of which 99% were probably the iconic Countach. It represented something unobtainable, something that had a prestige by simply the sheer rarity in comparison to everything else. And then the Lamborghini Gallardo was introduced; a smaller and more budget minded model was released that made the same prestige accessible to more and more people. I am not sure if this makes sense, but in my eyes the discoveries of Painite in the last decade that raised the known speciemen log from a handful of speciemens to an unknown quantity, is the same thing as the Gallardo model of Lamborghini - it allows the regular person to access that cache of rarity (even if finding those sources 10 years ago eliminated that cache of rarity by definition).
Oh and as far as size goes, I'd want something fairly small. 10-50 points
What does the PS collective think of a Painite men's ring? How would you set it? Do you like the idea of setting a stone simply for it's rarity or story? Or does it need to be beautiful for you to want it? I'm open to all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, criticisms - anything at all! Painite is a gem that doesn't seem to get discussed very often which further adds to the allure for me
As some of you may be aware, I am an Aussie boy who has a developing gem obsession and I am currently looking for a blue sapphire to set in a ring for my gorgeous wife (we just celebrated our first wedding anniversary 4 days ago, yay for us!!). I've been looking at various cabochon and faceted Aussie Sapphires for her, but that's a different thread. Rarely do I think about gemstones for myself, I look at them with my wife in mind. If you've followed any of my posts then you may know that I am a Death Metal bass guitarist who loves his fishing - so while I love gemstones, gems and jewelry are not exactly something you will find me adorning myself with. But I have been having the occasional thought and conversation with my wife as to what I would buy and how I might set it. So after some careful consideration as to what I might like in a ring, I have decided that I would most like a Painite.
Most people are probably wondering why I picked Painite. It has a Mohs hardness of 8.5 which would make it good for a ring, but it's not an aesthetically beautiful stone from the samples I have seen, it doesn't seem to be easy to find, is notoriously small and seems to have clarity issues - so let me try explain my fascination with Painite like this:
Once upon a time, every man currently around the age of 40 had a poster of a Lamborghini on his wall when he was a kid, of which 99% were probably the iconic Countach. It represented something unobtainable, something that had a prestige by simply the sheer rarity in comparison to everything else. And then the Lamborghini Gallardo was introduced; a smaller and more budget minded model was released that made the same prestige accessible to more and more people. I am not sure if this makes sense, but in my eyes the discoveries of Painite in the last decade that raised the known speciemen log from a handful of speciemens to an unknown quantity, is the same thing as the Gallardo model of Lamborghini - it allows the regular person to access that cache of rarity (even if finding those sources 10 years ago eliminated that cache of rarity by definition).
Oh and as far as size goes, I'd want something fairly small. 10-50 points
What does the PS collective think of a Painite men's ring? How would you set it? Do you like the idea of setting a stone simply for it's rarity or story? Or does it need to be beautiful for you to want it? I'm open to all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, criticisms - anything at all! Painite is a gem that doesn't seem to get discussed very often which further adds to the allure for me
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