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HI PS friends!
There was a recent discussion where a PS regular mentioned they thought "crushed ice" asets are "ugly"
I have been raising a few important aspects of aset interpretation fore a long time- and thankfully a few regular contributors are picking up on this. Let's take these two commonly held beliefs here.
If a new reader comes to PS, that is what they're going to learn.
And it's extremely misleading misinformation if we're speaking of Fancy Shaped diamonds.
Round diamonds are a totally different ballgame- yet this crucial fact never seems to come up.
Not to place blame on anyone here- current AGSL literature itself is biased in this manner.
We have the charts showing this biased view. It's quite easy to drink that kool aid if a consumer spends a lot of time here.
This can lead to cutters cutting diamonds to produce more red in ASET.
In many cases this produces a stone with dark center, and noticeably smaller spread. In some cases this provides an Increased yield, and premium price- cutters love that.
Yet the claim is often made that stones with dispersed green and white favor the cutter's profit.
This is not because I love crushed ice- or that's all we sell.
My motiviation is true consumer education, as opposed to baised opinions being passed off as facts of diamond cutting.
The very good news is that AGSL has taken note of this- and in time we may get a more rounded manner of ASET interpretation.
There was a recent discussion where a PS regular mentioned they thought "crushed ice" asets are "ugly"
I have been raising a few important aspects of aset interpretation fore a long time- and thankfully a few regular contributors are picking up on this. Let's take these two commonly held beliefs here.
Red is better than green
Leakage is bad.
If a new reader comes to PS, that is what they're going to learn.
And it's extremely misleading misinformation if we're speaking of Fancy Shaped diamonds.
Round diamonds are a totally different ballgame- yet this crucial fact never seems to come up.
Not to place blame on anyone here- current AGSL literature itself is biased in this manner.
We have the charts showing this biased view. It's quite easy to drink that kool aid if a consumer spends a lot of time here.
This can lead to cutters cutting diamonds to produce more red in ASET.
In many cases this produces a stone with dark center, and noticeably smaller spread. In some cases this provides an Increased yield, and premium price- cutters love that.
Yet the claim is often made that stones with dispersed green and white favor the cutter's profit.
This is not because I love crushed ice- or that's all we sell.
My motiviation is true consumer education, as opposed to baised opinions being passed off as facts of diamond cutting.
The very good news is that AGSL has taken note of this- and in time we may get a more rounded manner of ASET interpretation.