Are these two stones a good match?

[BlueJeans]

Stone 1: GCAL
1.01 J SI1 6.41-6.45x4.00mm
35.6 crown angle 41.0 pavilion angle
Polish and External Symmetry-Very Good
Optical Brilliance and Symmetry-Excellent
Crown Height 15.8%
Total Width- 56%
Total Depth-62.1%
Pavilion Depth 43.3%

Stone 2: EGL
1.01 J SI1 6.45-6.41x3.96mm
Total depth- 61.6%
Total Width 56%
Crown Height 14%
Pavilion Depth 43%
Girdle Thickness- Medium Faceted
Polish and Symmetry-Excellent
Graining-Nil
Fluorescence-None

Okay I think thats all the information I have. Let me know if you need anything else. Thank you in advance for your help, this is my first post!

 

[belle]

happy first post and welcome to ps!

by the numbers, those look like a nice match!
grrrrrreat size too!

how will you set them? we will need some pics you know

 

[BlueJeans]

Belle,

Thanks for your quick response! I think they will make a lovely pair of bezel studs! Do you, or anyone else, think 2.02tcw is too big for bezel settings? I''m slightly worried about the diamond with the EGL cert; Oh well, in earrings it shouldn''t make that much of a difference, right?

-BlueJeans

 

[BlueJeans]

Does anyone know what graining is? On the 2nd stone it says Nil-

-BlueJeans

 

[Lorelei]

Welcome to Pricescope!

Graining means surface graining. I have copied and pasted this excellent info from one of our experts John, regarding this.

Surface Graining is structural irregularity. You can see it with a microscope. The graining may resemble faint facet junction lines, or cause a grooved or wavy surface. They look like polishing lines, but they often cross facet junctions where polishing lines don''t. It is a natural characteristic of the diamond crystal, and not a reflection of the cut quality.
Many times a grading report will list surface graining, pinpoints, additional clouds, etc. as ''not shown.'' The report is just noting that these things exist for sake of thoroughness. ''Not shown'' means they are non-issues.

Also which branch of EGL graded the second diamond?

 

[BlueJeans]

Lorelei,

Thank you for you reply! I''m not sure if I understand you question. I searched the EGL report...."Diamond Certificate Report issued by EGL (European Gemological Laboratory). May 2007 Where would I find which branch?

-BlueJeans

 

[Lorelei]

Hi BJ!

EGL has various branches such as EGL USA, Europe, Israel, Antwerp, South Africa to name some. The reason I ask is so we know which EGL branch graded your diamond. It should say which on the grading report.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

2.02 cts are going to make for very large bezel studs. Have you tried on similar earrings to see how they look on you? It''s be worth doing so before having them set because you may find that the stones you''ve picked out could also look perfect set as standard four prong or martini set studs. They will look great as bezels, too, but very substantial as well.

 

[BlueJeans]

Lorelei,

Right above the signature in the bottom right hand corner it states "Conflict Free Diamond" E.G.L. European Gemological Laboratory. There is no mention of USA, South Africa, Antwerp or Israel. I may be blind, I not used to the EGL certs. So maybe Europe?

-BlueJeans

 

[Lorelei]

Not to worry, here is a sample EGL report, you can see it says EGL USA on the top, does yours look like this one?

http://www.eglusa.com/images/d_cert2004.gif

 

[BlueJeans]

MC,

I have tried on 2 ctw. four prong studs at a Mall store before I purchased these stones. The sad thing is that those were twice as much expensive and cheaply made. I love PS! I currently wear 1 ctw. daily and those are just to small for my taste. I honestly think that the 2 ctw. will be too small. Thats why I''m hopeing that the bezel will help with my shinkage issues. Thank you for your post, I appreciate the concern, especially because I have not seen earrings that size in a bezel setting it makes me wonder as well.

-BlueJeans

 

[BlueJeans]

Lorelei,

Wow thank you so much for that link!!! It really helped! My report looks similar...

Diamond Certificate
Report issued by EGL
European Gemological Laboratory

Different Fonts, different layout. Same logo in the top left hand corner but different "logo, sticker, square" image in the bottom right hand corner.

I tried to enter my diamond on the EGL website but when I enter my cert # & hit search it comes back as a error and to input my carat weight, but the is no place to enter the weight.

I hope it''s not a fraudulent certificate!!!!

-BlueJeans

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 1/20/2008 1:42:28 PM
Author: BlueJeans
Lorelei,

Wow thank you so much for that link!!! It really helped! My report looks similar...

Diamond Certificate
Report issued by EGL
European Gemological Laboratory

Different Fonts, different layout. Same logo in the top left hand corner but different 'logo, sticker, square' image in the bottom right hand corner.

I tried to enter my diamond on the EGL website but when I enter my cert # & hit search it comes back as a error and to input my carat weight, but the is no place to enter the weight.

I hope it's not a fraudulent certificate!!!!

-BlueJeans

Did you try this link, www.eglusa.com ? If your report # has 2 letters in the front, drop them then enter the numbers only into the report check link, go to online results to get the report check tool. I seem to remember someone else having this problem recently, so try it again perhaps and see if it works now. The only other thing I can think of is, perhaps if your report is not EGL USA, then maybe it won't work on this website. I am sure your EGL report is fine and there is another explanation, such as maybe a non EGL USA report might not be recorded on the EGL USA site.

 

[BlueJeans]

Lorelei,

http://www.eglinternational.org/serv_certificates.htm

This is what my certificate looks like. The bottom left hand corner says "Online verification service at www.egl-labs.com" I tried it and it did not work. So it''s not USA. Humm, very interesting. Thank you so much for your knowledge. I really appreciate your help. Ahhh while I was typeing this up I clicked on contact us and it looks like the mystery is solved! Israel!!!

Alright so is Israel good?

-BlueJeans

 

[BlueJeans]

I just pluged in the numbers in the "Diamond Cut Analysis Online" and the results are quite surprising!!

The EGL, yes EGL, scored a 1!!! Best possible!!! Excellent!

The GCAL scored 4.1 which is only "Good."

I encourage everyone to use this PS tool for RBs!

Makes me feel better about buying an Israel EGL cert. The GCAL still states that the optical brilliance analysis and the optical brilliance analysis both as Excellent.

It makes me wonder how GCAL came up with Excellent when I came up with 4.1-

-BlueJeans

 

[Lorelei]

Have you had your vendor check these diamonds to make sure they match well? If a trusted vendor gives the thumbs up then you should be good to go, that would be my next step to make sure they fit together well and to check out the EGL diamond. EGL Israel are thought by some to be soft on grading, you can do a search for opinions on this.