prepping for my Asscher search...

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A deal is only a deal if you are getting exactly what you want.

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Date: 2/16/2008 9:34:27 PM
Author: CaptainCarat


Uh oh...sounds like bad news. 'Looks great!' isn't a very long answer

Hope you feel better strmrdr!

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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."

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A deal is only a deal if you are getting exactly what you want.

........... Karl has joined the diamond trade and is now posting as Karl_K

Date: 2/17/2008 12:01:49 PM
Author: strmrdr
Changes in Green

Carat: ~1.1+ (5.80x5.80mm or larger is my target size) smart shopping MM rather than weight :}
Cut: highest quality I can find
Color: D - H (as long as better color than sidestones)
Clarity: stick too vs2 or better unless its an in stock stone that the vendor will guarantee is 100% eyeclean, calling in si asschers is a losing proposition
Fluorescence: Doesn't matter much, if it has some kewl if not kewl, I love v-strong as long as it isnt an over-blue.
LxW ratio: As square as possible, 1.04ish max,
Depth: 45%(haha) too 70%, discount over 70% unless its an old style asscher with a very high crown then it can carry a premium.
Table: 25% to 65%
Crown: 10% With a 65% table--- 27%+ with a 25% table...
Girdle: medium, medium-thick, slthick, thick, and sometimes v-thick, avoid v-thin, ethin, thin and ethick.
Culet*: none vsmall small
Polish: VG or Ex
Symmetry: VG or Ex
Grading reports: GIA AGS only, the best asschers are sent too GIA these days 99.999% of the time.

*Culet - I have read that since the culet is perpendicular to the table, a large culet will look like an inclusion. I've also read that it's preferable to have a culet that's not pointed since it reduces the chance that the diamond will chip. Is this true?
yes and no, modern settings do a great job of protecting the culet so its no longer an issue once the stone is set.

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