Go with the one you know you will have no regrets choosing
is the one then listen.Are you of Asian culture by chance? I ask because a college professor was Asian and had her grading scale as 88+ as an A, 78+ as a B and so on.
When asked about it, she explained in her culture 8's were lucky. That was an easy class (to me, anyhow) so I passed with a near 100 so it was no good to me but a few people caught the benefit....and was thankful.
If you're looking for patterns....if you add 6+2 of the partial weight, you get 8. And bonus points for making it rhyme.
As my confidence has built over time, the one thing I have learned is to always trust my gut. If the 1.8 is what your gut says and you can spare the cash, then go for it. If your gut, or wallet, says the 1.6+2
If I were in your shoes I'd probably lean a little towards the 1.62 as I'd want to use the $4k savings for a down payment on a house or towards wedding expenses or an international trip as I love to travel!
Also just small things but I like the slightly smaller table, crown height and mind clean clarity plot of the 1.62.
I really wanted to highlight that part above because not everyone gets that.
It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders, and while the extra $4k could be used for something else you enjoy it isn't going to "hurt" if you splurge on the 1.80.
That said, I think you should just get what you want now, which I believe is the 1.80.
FYI, a few months back we picked up nearly half a billion dollars worth of work in two days. We celebrated by sipping on a bottle of Louis XIII cognac that costs about $3k or so. It doesn't make sense to do that all the time, but this was a special celebration and was worthwhile.
Excellent points, I am also sweet on the 34.5/40.8 combo. And there is no arguing that you have some of the most beautiful stones on here. I don't think you've posted pics of anything I haven't liked or would own myself.
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And my vote for the “you know you’re a PSer when” contest ....
But I totally get it; been there, done that, have the multi-tabbed spreadsheet to prove it.
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Okay, time for a revised spreadsheet.
I added the H, and this time I reconfigured the data so you can analyze all the stones together against the 1.628 since that seems to be the way you are leaning at the current moment.
I think I'd ask Wink to line the 4 stones up and provide a photo/video analysis of any variation in color. As you go down the color scale, you have more variance. It's possible one of the I stones look almost H. Again, CBI/HPD is pretty critical on themselves about color & clarity grading so I would expect them to be pretty strong overall. Still it's a worthwhile ask.
A few thoughts about the H 1.658 stone:
- You're paying 13.5% to bump in color from I to H, but you are also downgrading in clarity from VS2 to SI1.
- Size difference is negligible, less than 1% spread difference. Not detectable to the human eye.
- Shallow 34.1 crown combined with a somewhat shallow 40.7 pavilion. There's zero doubt this stone will be great, but I think it could have a slight personality difference from the other stones.
- Also this stone the largest LGF's of the group at 78. Still within ideal territory, but again, maybe a slight personality change. Numerically larger LGF's provide more skinny arrows tend to produce a little more pin fire white light return in bright lighting environments. Numerically smaller LGF's produce fatter arrows and produce larger bolder rainbow flashes in indirect lighting. As well cut as these stones are, the differences will be minimal and personal preference. At the 80%+ range, you can start to see some table reflection when you tilt the stone.
I'd like to re-stress all 4 of these stones are excellent choices. I'm just trying to analyze very fine details that is more of a personality thing than something that is "wrong". I don't want the comments to be taken the wrong way.
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