My son is getting married and asked my advice and help in selecting a diamond. I''d never experienced this challange as a young man as I inherited my mothers wedding diamond and reset it for my bride. As I''ve learned from your forum and links I realize it to be an old european heavy cut with little excitement. Any fire and brilliance generated is from my eyes not the stone as I view it through my memory scope! So it being relatively lifeless compared to the fantastic ideal cuts you all have introduced me to it is more incentive for me to help my son get a superb brilliant diamond for his bride. We did the mall circuit and in retrospect were bombarded with exageration and overrating of average diamonds under solar flare lighting to get into our price range. So I turned to the internet and found this site, what a deliverance! The passion and thirst for knowledge I see in your comments is infectious and if I were a young man I would race to this profession,I envy you in this ancient and honorable profession. So,initially we were unsure of purchasing on the internet but with your help and much research have changed our opinion. Here is our dilemma- We set parameters for the diamond and based on budget sacrificed color and clarity to- I maybe J and SI1 to get a better cut. Is this a mistake? For cut(in order of priority) pav depth-60-62%, Pav ang 40.7-41.3, crn ang 33.7-35.8, table 53-57.5%, polish/symmetry/proportions-ideal, girdle .7-2.0. We have been able to verify all these if we have the AGS cert and Sarin which we can get on some of the vendors sites. My problem is I have gone beyond this with the sites that have intoduced me to "Scope-mania".I now find I go beyond the satisfaction of good angles and percentages and search out the Brilliance Scope, Fire Scope, I See 2 Scope, Mega Scope Leakage Diagrams....etc.I am rejecting stones for scope readings and diagrams when it meets the angles and percentages I know make an Ideal stone. Especially the firescope and the white, color and scintillation bar graphs from the Brilliance Scope. I want them all very high. If I see leakage I can''t stand it! Have I gone insane? I guess my question is this-If I purchase a stone (unseen) that meets the parameters I set above, ie an AGS 0 with the Sarin data to complete the information. Can I be safe with the assumption that it will give me the best brilliance, fire and scintillation I can get without seeking out this scope information to verify it.Or is it worth the time and effort to get this information. Also if I limit my search to H&A stones could this be a good way to gain this assurance I''m after? I apologize for rambling. Thank you for your time and your expertise I ask to borrow from.
Regards,
Robert
Regards,
Robert