Re: Any1 want to look at ASET, DiamXray, H&A pics for my sto
Murander|1304693575|2913922 said:
I'm moving forward in the process with
Good Old Gold. Sometimes when I look at that Hearts image, I second guess myself. All those little black lines in the middle of each Heart kind of bother me because I want to be sure this diamond is Hearts & Arrows by at least the HRD standards found here
http://www.hrd.be/media/24344/hearts_arrows_guidelines.pdf
But this article gives some penalty for the splits in the cleft of the heart.
https://www.pricescope.com/journal/hearts_and_arrows_diamonds_and_basics_diamond_cutting/
I just want to be sure that I am getting her what I know she really likes. I'm positive she won't care about whether or not there is a small split in the cleft of a heart that she will likely never be able to see once the stone is set, but I don't want to spend money on a H&A diamond unless I feel confident it meets that definition.
I'm also wondering if the heart at the six oclock position is showing an impurity in the diamond? I see a few black specs, but I can't understand why it shows up.
Any ideas?
She absolutely will *not* be able to note the clefts once set - you need to be looking at the stone loose and upside down through a H&A scope to see those hearts patterns, so you have nothing to worry about there.
The presence of some radially symmetric hearts and arrows patterns is the result of high optical symmetry within the stone. Different proportions (crown, pavilion, lgf, etc.) that produce stones with different personalities will also produce different hearts and arrows patterns - skinny arrows, thick Vs, larger or smaller clefts.. and a stone can be proportioned in various ways and still be cut to high optical symmetry that results in even, symmetric hearts and arrows patterns. Some vendors of H&As have strict specifications for what their hearts should look like, which means also backward-specifying narrow ranges of proportions that can result in those particular hearts shapes in the first place - no cleft, thin Vs, whatever. Other vendors, like
GOG, include in their "brand" stones with a variety of proportions (and thus different personalities, and thus differently shaped hearts and arrows patterns) that are all precision cut to high optical symmetry - and this stone clearly meets
GOG's requirement for high optical symmetry.
What you have there will be a beautiful, well-balanced stone. You paid a brand premium for it, and IMO you are getting what you paid for - a highly optically symmetric stone that fulfills all of
GOG's brand specifications with no room for debate.
