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P: 12/7/2007 9:29:12 PM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	My pair of 4mm rounds arrived from AJSgems today. I'm pleased. I only paid $95 for the pair, so I wasn't expecting much, but they've very sparkly...the color is fabulous in natural light, and good (but a tad dark) in incandescent light. The only downside to the pair is that, while both are cut to minimize the visibility of the zoning, zoning is noticible in one of the two through the table (that's the right word for the top facet, right?) if you're at an angle , though not directly face on. Given how pretty (and budget!) the pair is, I'm certainly not going to complain. Sorry for the poor picture quality; they're tiny little buggers!
Posted: 12/7/2007 9:29:12 PM

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P: 12/7/2007 9:30:51 PM
DiamanteBlu Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,474 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 7/12/2005	How cute! What do you plan to do with them? ============================ Blu "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759
Posted: 12/7/2007 9:30:51 PM

P: 12/7/2007 9:32:10 PM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	They're going into studs for my girlfriend. Either 4-prong or, if I can find someone to do it at a reasonable price, bezels.
Posted: 12/7/2007 9:32:10 PM

P: 12/7/2007 10:26:15 PM
Selkie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,616 Last Post: 11/11/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	Lovely! What a great find, she'll love them. *** Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:26:15 PM

P: 12/7/2007 10:29:14 PM
DiamanteBlu Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,474 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 7/12/2005	Date: 12/7/2007 9:32:10 PM Author: dzop They're going into studs for my girlfriend. Either 4-prong or, if I can find someone to do it at a reasonable price, bezels. Ooooh, what a cool gift! You have just given me an idea for DD's 20th b-day next spring. She would love a beautiful pair of stones like yours! Thanks! Are you going to do yellow or white gold? And - I love the idea of bezels. Let us know what you wind up doing - with the requisite pics, of course. ============================ Blu "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:29:14 PM

P: 12/7/2007 10:29:36 PM
SanDiegoLady Ideal Rock Total Posts: 14,214 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 7/6/2005	Oh I think they are simply lovely!
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:29:36 PM

P: 12/7/2007 10:31:36 PM
DiamanteBlu Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,474 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 7/12/2005	BTW, AJS is in Bangkok, right? Did you have any "issues" in completing the transaction? I have gotten lots of stuff in Bangkok while I was there but I have never dealt with a vendor in Bangkok [or outside the US, for that matter] from here. ============================ Blu "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759
Posted: 12/7/2007 10:31:36 PM

P: 12/8/2007 1:11:05 AM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	Date: 12/7/2007 10:31:36 PM Author: DiamanteBlu BTW, AJS is in Bangkok, right? Did you have any 'issues' in completing the transaction? I have gotten lots of stuff in Bangkok while I was there but I have never dealt with a vendor in Bangkok [or outside the US, for that matter] from here. This is the third time I've dealt with AJS, and its been smooth as a whistle each time. My last name is really similar to his, so, I dunno, I feel comfortable dealing with mishpuchah. I'm no expert on gems, but I am an ex-geologist and I own a loupe and know my mineralogy, and I've never felt like I've gotten a bad deal. My sense is that AJS sells a fair product for a fair price. FWIW, the color of my stones is almost a dead-on match for the color in the picture on the website.
Posted: 12/8/2007 1:11:05 AM

P: 12/8/2007 1:16:11 AM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	Date: 12/7/2007 10:29:14 PM Author: DiamanteBlu Ooooh, what a cool gift! You have just given me an idea for DD's 20th b-day next spring. She would love a beautiful pair of stones like yours! Thanks! Are you going to do yellow or white gold? And - I love the idea of bezels. Let us know what you wind up doing - with the requisite pics, of course. I will! I'm definately going with white gold--I'm not a big fan of yellow gold with sapphires, I think white metal brings out the blue. And my girl likes white gold, and she gets too pick (metaphorically, of course, since these are a surprise christmas gift). I'm hoping that bezels wont be too expensive, but I'm pretty skeptical...these stones are supposed to be 4.0mm diameter, so maybe I'll get lucky and they'll fit a cast setting. A 4 prong will look pretty nice too, I suspect, though not quite as cool as the bezels.... :-)
Posted: 12/8/2007 1:16:11 AM

P: 12/8/2007 1:36:11 AM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	In case anyone is wondering, the stones come in this package, wrapped in bubble paper, in a small manilla envelope inside of the larger fedex envelope.
Posted: 12/8/2007 1:36:11 AM

P: 12/8/2007 4:56:57 AM
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,086 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	They look pretty. I hope you can find bezel settings to fit your budget. Milgrained bezels would be beautiful!
Posted: 12/8/2007 4:56:57 AM

P: 12/15/2007 9:31:46 PM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	My pair is now bezel set! I'm very happy with how it came out. I was just on the phone with my girl today, and she was, half jokingly, complaining that I had promised to give her "sapphirey ears" for Christmas, but now I couldn't afford it on my student budget. Au contraire..she's in for a blue, glittery surprise. Thanks to the good folks at AJS for making this possible.
Posted: 12/15/2007 9:31:46 PM

P: 12/15/2007 9:35:36 PM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	Side view!
Posted: 12/15/2007 9:35:36 PM

P: 12/15/2007 9:40:36 PM
LadyAmythyst69 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,488 Last Post: 5/17/2008 Member Since: 10/3/2007	I love those set in bezels! I want a pair too.
Posted: 12/15/2007 9:40:36 PM

P: 12/15/2007 9:53:54 PM
diamondseeker2006 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 17,609 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	They are beautiful! She will be thrilled! ~~~ When in doubt...don't.~~~
Posted: 12/15/2007 9:53:54 PM

P: 12/15/2007 11:01:41 PM
Catmom Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,756 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 4/6/2005	Oooooo, they are gorgeous bezel set!! I know she will love them. Michelle *****************************So many sparklies.....So little time!
Posted: 12/15/2007 11:01:41 PM

P: 12/15/2007 11:15:06 PM
Kaleigh Ideal Rock Total Posts: 25,905 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/18/2004	Those came out really well. My bet is that she will be in sapphire heaven. Nicely done!!! ____________________________ Piece of cake and a candle. ng gift
Posted: 12/15/2007 11:15:06 PM

P: 12/16/2007 8:36:21 AM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 12/15/2007 9:31:46 PM Author: dzop My pair is now bezel set! I'm very happy with how it came out. I was just on the phone with my girl today, and she was, half jokingly, complaining that I had promised to give her 'sapphirey ears' for Christmas, but now I couldn't afford it on my student budget. Au contraire..she's in for a blue, glittery surprise. Thanks to the good folks at AJS for making this possible. I wish I could see her face when she opens them. They are really pretty! Great job! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 12/16/2007 8:36:21 AM

P: 12/16/2007 8:51:30 AM
Addy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,915 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 10/20/2007	Do you mind telling me who set them into bezels? They're beautiful!
Posted: 12/16/2007 8:51:30 AM

P: 12/16/2007 2:03:33 PM
Selkie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,616 Last Post: 11/11/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	Beautiful! *** Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Posted: 12/16/2007 2:03:33 PM

P: 12/16/2007 2:08:32 PM
ZoeBartlett Ideal Rock Total Posts: 5,879 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 12/29/2006	Ooohh, I just saw these. They're gorgeous and your girlfriend will love them.
Posted: 12/16/2007 2:08:32 PM

P: 12/16/2007 2:19:58 PM
gwendolyn Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,544 Last Post: 11/12/2009 Member Since: 8/4/2007	Oh, they are absolutely beautiful!! She will love them! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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: 12/16/2007 2:19:58 PM

P: 12/16/2007 2:22:36 PM
onvacation Cut Rock Total Posts: 500 Last Post: 10/29/2009 Member Since: 11/9/2007	The earrings are very sweet! Great execution, and just in time for Christmas, too. P.S. - I misread the small font in the title and thought it said A*S sapphire pair! LOL!
Posted: 12/16/2007 2:22:36 PM

P: 12/18/2007 6:53:28 PM
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005	I love them - did you get them bezel set locally or from a place online? Approx how much did the bezeling set you back, if you don't mind me asking? I think they look PHENOM!!!
Posted: 12/18/2007 6:53:28 PM

P: 12/18/2007 7:23:32 PM
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,086 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005	I love the settings!
Posted: 12/18/2007 7:23:32 PM

P: 12/19/2007 10:21:17 AM
dzop Rough Rock Total Posts: 17 Last Post: 2/22/2008 Member Since: 10/11/2007	I got the setting done at a small local B&M place. The setting isn't great; there's a little "pucker" on one of the bezels (you can kind of see it in the pics). But the setting was $100, which I thought was a reasonable price, so the earrings, factoring in stones, setting, shipping, tax, all-inclusive, cost me about $220. Not bad, I think.
Posted: 12/19/2007 10:21:17 AM

P: 12/19/2007 11:42:57 AM
Chrono Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,303 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 4/22/2004	Only $100 for the bezels????? You got an amazing deal from your local jeweller.
Posted: 12/19/2007 11:42:57 AM

P: 12/19/2007 2:55:42 PM
Addy Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,915 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 10/20/2007	That is an amazing deal! No one else will notice that the bezel isn't perfect.
Posted: 12/19/2007 2:55:42 PM

P: 12/19/2007 3:50:41 PM
FireGoddess Ideal Rock Total Posts: 12,145 Last Post: 3/23/2009 Member Since: 1/25/2005	That was a great deal and a super pair of earrings!
Posted: 12/19/2007 3:50:41 PM

P: 12/20/2007 8:34:13 PM
diamondsrock Ideal Rock Total Posts: 964 Last Post: 11/17/2009 Member Since: 5/5/2005	I love those earrings! You did a great job. She will get many compliments. Practice an attitude of gratitude!
Posted: 12/20/2007 8:34:13 PM

P: 12/20/2007 10:57:08 PM
marcyc Ideal Rock Total Posts: 7,820 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 2/27/2007	Very lovely sapphire studs. She will be so excited and love them! Sparkle On My Friends!
Posted: 12/20/2007 10:57:08 PM

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