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The War of the Cushions: Ladies' Votes Needed Please!

P: 3/26/2009 3:34:01 PM
coz3197 Rough Rock Total Posts: 13 Last Post: 5/12/2009 Member Since: 2/19/2009	Hi Everyone! After reading your advice for months, I think I've finally narrowed my search down to a couple cushions. The problem is, I honestly have no idea which diamond The Boss would prefer. There is about a $500 price differential between them, it's really a matter of personal taste at this point. The ring will be somewhat contemporary and simple. I'm designing a standard size full bezel for the diamond and a standard 2.0-2.2mm thick slightly rounded band/ring in white gold. I would be grateful to get some opinions as to which stone you prefer. The picture is under fluorescent lighting. Thanks so much in advance! The diamond on the left: Cushion Brilliant Carat weight: 1.51 Cut: Ideal Color: J Clarity: VS1 Certificate: GIA Depth: 66.4% Table: 64.0% Polish: Excellent Symmetry: Very Good Girdle: Medium Culet: None Fluorescence: None Measurements: 6.736.674.30 Ratio: 1.01 The diamond on the right: Cushion Modified Brilliant Carat weight: 1.52 Cut: Ideal Color: J Clarity: SI1 Certificate: GIA Depth: 63.2% Table: 58.0% Polish: Very Good Symmetry: Very Good Girdle: Slightly thick, faceted Culet: None Fluorescence: Faint Measurements: 7.186.444.07 Ratio: 1.11
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:34:01 PM

There are 45 replies to this message. There are 30 replies on this page.

P: 3/26/2009 3:36:21 PM
neatfreak Ideal Rock Total Posts: 13,464 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/17/2007	Left - no brainer for me.
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:36:21 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:36:53 PM
Demon Rough Rock Total Posts: 64 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 2/16/2009	I haven't a clue as to what the percentages should be on a cushion, but from the picture alone, I like the one on the left much more.
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:36:53 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:37:20 PM
mscushion Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,166 Last Post: 11/16/2009 Member Since: 11/15/2008	I would prefer the diamond on the left.
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:37:20 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:45:54 PM
Haven Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,072 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/16/2007	Date: 3/26/2009 3:36:21 PM Author: neatfreak Left - no brainer for me. A wholehearted ditto, here. ********************************************************** "I'm sorry I ruined your lives and crammed eleven cookies into the VCR." - Buddy the Elf "Let your inner Liz Taylor out and rock it." - diamondfan
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:45:54 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:48:42 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 3/26/2009 3:45:54 PM Author: Haven Date: 3/26/2009 3:36:21 PM Author: neatfreak Left - no brainer for me. A wholehearted ditto, here. Thritto. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:48:42 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:57:02 PM
DiamondFlame Ideal Rock Total Posts: 645 Last Post: 9/3/2009 Member Since: 2/7/2009	Can't get any easier. No need to look at numbers at all. LEFT it is for me. -Dmitri-
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:57:02 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:57:20 PM
Gypsy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 14,306 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 8/9/2005	Date: 3/26/2009 3:48:42 PM Author: Ellen Date: 3/26/2009 3:45:54 PM Author: Haven Date: 3/26/2009 3:36:21 PM Author: neatfreak Left - no brainer for me. A wholehearted ditto, here. Thritto. COUNT ME IN TOO!
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:57:20 PM

P: 3/26/2009 3:57:53 PM
stepcutgirl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 524 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/11/2009	I'm not sure if it's a quaditto or not but the left by far!
Posted: 3/26/2009 3:57:53 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:15:37 PM
Rock_of_Love Ideal Rock Total Posts: 996 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 1/7/2009	It is always amazing to me how different two cushions can be. Based on the pic, I agree with the others, the one on the left for sure. ~ * ~ Found my Rock of Love!!
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:15:37 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:18:31 PM
LaurenThePartier Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,176 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/2/2004	Left! Love the shape and the facet pattern. *********************************************** DFW PS GTG Planner Extraordinaire :)
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:18:31 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:24:02 PM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,228 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	I think we are up to sevendittos the left one! Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:24:02 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:26:35 PM
Addy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,915 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 10/20/2007	The one on the left, hands down. I don't know anything about %ages so I went by photo alone.
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:26:35 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:44:05 PM
purrfectpear Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,698 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/31/2008	Diamond on the right is a fugly duckling. I much prefer the diamond on the LEFT "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:44:05 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:55:51 PM
gwendolyn Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,544 Last Post: 11/12/2009 Member Since: 8/4/2007	Date: 3/26/2009 4:26:35 PM Author: Addy The one on the left, hands down. I don't know anything about %ages so I went by photo alone. Jah, same here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UK Wedding: April ?th, 2010 US Reception: May 30th, 2010! Out of Context Theatre presents...ladypirate: "Gwen, you would make a terrible medieval catholic priest!" 'One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.' -Jonathan Safran Foer, 'Everything Is Illuminated'
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:55:51 PM

P: 3/26/2009 4:57:52 PM
coz3197 Rough Rock Total Posts: 13 Last Post: 5/12/2009 Member Since: 2/19/2009	Wow, thanks for the quick response! You guys aren't even making this interesting are you?:)
Posted: 3/26/2009 4:57:52 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:00:39 PM
Addy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,915 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 10/20/2007	Date: 3/26/2009 4:57:52 PM Author: coz3197 Wow, thanks for the quick response! You guys aren't even making this interesting are you?:) Did you want interesting? We could always try. PP gave it a good start.
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:00:39 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:01:54 PM
gwendolyn Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,544 Last Post: 11/12/2009 Member Since: 8/4/2007	Date: 3/26/2009 4:57:52 PM Author: coz3197 Wow, thanks for the quick response! You guys aren't even making this interesting are you?:) Just wait until you have us choose settings; then we promise to be all over the map. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UK Wedding: April ?th, 2010 US Reception: May 30th, 2010! Out of Context Theatre presents...ladypirate: "Gwen, you would make a terrible medieval catholic priest!" 'One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.' -Jonathan Safran Foer, 'Everything Is Illuminated'
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:01:54 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:05:27 PM
aveda6 Rough Rock Total Posts: 98 Last Post: 9/6/2009 Member Since: 3/14/2009	Even I, a complete novice/noob agree that the left one is so much prettier. Can't wait to see what it's going to go into.
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:05:27 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:09:44 PM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 3/26/2009 4:57:52 PM Author: coz3197 Wow, thanks for the quick response! You guys aren't even making this interesting are you?:) Sorry, but there was no comparison. As mentioned though, settings could be entirely different..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds." -Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880 "There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things.... The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:09:44 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:15:44 PM
Haven Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,072 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/16/2007	How does GIA rate a cushion cut "Ideal"? What are the parameters? Just curious. Perhaps I should start another thread. ********************************************************** "I'm sorry I ruined your lives and crammed eleven cookies into the VCR." - Buddy the Elf "Let your inner Liz Taylor out and rock it." - diamondfan
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:15:44 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:18:39 PM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,228 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	Date: 3/26/2009 5:15:44 PM Author: Haven How does GIA rate a cushion cut 'Ideal'? What are the parameters? Just curious. Perhaps I should start another thread. They don't Haven, this is just a vendor applied description, no such thing as Ideal Cut from GIA for any shape, Excellent is their highest cut grade and that refers to rounds only. Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:18:39 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:24:16 PM
indypitty Cut Rock Total Posts: 292 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 7/23/2007	the one on the left is gorgeous... the one on the right doesn't even come close!
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:24:16 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:29:25 PM
MMT Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,565 Last Post: 7/14/2009 Member Since: 6/24/2008	I say left also
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:29:25 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:32:08 PM
vespergirl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,924 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 1/29/2007	Left
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:32:08 PM

P: 3/26/2009 5:39:46 PM
kcoursolle Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,344 Last Post: 10/14/2009 Member Since: 1/21/2006	Definitely left for my taste!! It's a great balanced look in my opinion somewhere in between modern and chunky.
Posted: 3/26/2009 5:39:46 PM

P: 3/26/2009 6:27:37 PM
Rockit Cut Rock Total Posts: 167 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 6/2/2008	Left. Especially considering the way you plan to set it as a solitaire. For what it is worth, I have seen in person many diamonds cut in a similar style to the one on the right (someone needs to step up here for poor Righty). When the work is top-notch, the stones can be spectacular, sparkly, glitter-balls. Really sensational. Works nicely as a center to a halo style ring where you might prefer flashy, itsy-bitsy, sparklies over chunky, fiery facets. That being said, I'm not sure this particular stone on the right has it to give, and, of the two, I prefer the chunkier faceted Lefty. Poor Righty. Interesting because even though OP states a more "modern" look is desired, we all prefer the more traditional diamond (although I consider them both more modern looking type cushions).
Posted: 3/26/2009 6:27:37 PM

P: 3/26/2009 7:01:53 PM
girlie-girl Ideal Rock Total Posts: 819 Last Post: 6/5/2009 Member Since: 5/29/2008	When I think cushion, in my mind's eye I see a stone that looks like the one on the left.
Posted: 3/26/2009 7:01:53 PM

P: 3/26/2009 7:15:12 PM
pixley Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,534 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 11/12/2007	To the left, to the left. Everything you own in the stone to the left. I just like the contrast patterns in that stone much more.
Posted: 3/26/2009 7:15:12 PM

P: 3/26/2009 7:49:01 PM
Dani Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,605 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/12/2004	The one on the left!!! Faceting pattern is gorgeous!!!!!
Posted: 3/26/2009 7:49:01 PM

P: 3/26/2009 7:51:08 PM
2Artists Ideal Rock Total Posts: 614 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 10/13/2007	Left! Mrs.2Artists
Posted: 3/26/2009 7:51:08 PM

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