Advice on side stones please! Looks weird to me...

[ftsc]

Hi everyone. Long time lurker here, especially on this thread. Would really appreciate some advice on brilliant cut trapezoids.

I'm trying to get a three stone LG ring made with a radiant as the centre stone. I'm working with Vijay at Ouros and it's his 3rd attempt at cutting trapezoid side stones! (The first two times, inexplicably, step-cut traps were cut instead of brilliant cut...).

This is the attempt at brilliant cut. It looks really strange to me - what are those black arrows??
Vijay has said that the "arrows" will disappear when set. I can't really get my head around this?
Has anyone ever set brilliant trapezoids and do they look like this?

Thank you in advance

 

[lovedogs]

do not accept these. They are cut very strangely, and there's almost no way the arrows will disappear once set.

 

[sprinklesparkles]

Those are odd little windows in those side stones. I don’t know that I’ve seen brilliant cut traps, but I wouldn’t go with those.

 

[Sprinkles&Stones]

Oh dear. The radiant looks great! The side stones look wonky

 

[monipod]

I think he's struggling to get a trap to work with the length of your radiant but not be heavier in carat weight (assuming you've agreed not to spend more than a set value for the sides?) . Would you consider two side stones on either side instead? Like two baguette cuts that taper on one end (I'm sure there's a proper name for the shape?).

 

[lucida818]

I am not convinced the arrow will disappear after setting too. None of the trapezoids I saw looked like this.
Just weird.

 

[ftsc]

Thank you all for your advice!

 

[DejaWiz]

Since these pictures are of the diamonds in a lidded viewing box, see if he can place them in some sort of mock-up setting and send you pictures of it in a variety of lighting conditions.

That's going to be a quick and sure-fire way to tell if those chevrons will disappear once they are set.

 

[AprilBaby]

I can’t imagine how the chevrons will disappear when set.

 

[sparkleandfire]

I just saw your post and am in the process of having Vijay cut me some traps as well... did you ever get them where you were satisfied?