you talking about the kozibe? yes... beautiful! And I was thinking the same thing... scott''s gonna love *this* one cause it''s just like HIS! haha!!!! I like them both - flip a coin! I love what my big hugeo side facets do... it loses a little something at high mag in the sym department (not actual symmetry just yanno, longer stone, longer culet etc) but those facets do amazing things in person!Date: 4/13/2007 12:43:48 PM
Author: Scott 00
WHOA! I REALLY like stone #2, it has that ''draw your eye in'' quality and that culet virtual facet is very beautiful. I *AM* biased because its like a larger cousin to my lil baby
The modern cushions that share that GIA cert name of "cushion brilliant" are not like crushed ice... they''re also very cleanly cut, very brilliant, somewhat chunky, but not as chunky.
there ya go... you take over for a while jeff, I have to run out and get coffee and treats for my dh and kids who all but 1 seem to be home today!!!
I still don''t see the modified facets... bah!
Have you posted pictures of your orangy yellow stone? I would like to see it.
Date: 4/13/2007 2:57:32 PM
Author: yellowsparkles
Sure you can ask... Yes both stones are from the same vendor and yes the person I wish to fabricate my ring.Is there something I should be concerned with regarding the photography? What about the black bacground?? Opinions?
Cehra,Date: 4/13/2007 4:00:05 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
I have a random thought.... I was looking back over when you got your yellow cushion and later how you mentioned you still loved the yellow color.... have you considered getting a cushion in a MNOPQRST sort of range? You could get the bigger stone you wanted and the antique cushion types look *amazing* in this color range.... mine is a J and I would probably avoid IJK because they seem to me to be kinda in between colors.... I mean I like my stone but... well anyway, if you like more color but less than a fancy you could really get a much larger stone for the $$ in tha color range.... just a thought
Not weird..., but you are right..., they are very high up..., and they are concealed using a spliting main facet method.
What about the other more square stone? I wish I could loupe these... I was figuring they were wrong on one but if they''re "wrong" on both then I must assume at least based on what I have that *I* am wrong... which is perfectly okay but I still have a hard time seeing the extra facets. I do see what you circled, and given a very large kite facet on the crown, you''re right... there''s no way for that little sliver to be just a reflection... you say it is a reflection but looking more I don''t know how it could be... I still don''t think it is the plot on the cert, but it definitely could fall under "modified" if there are extra facets. Actually that would answer a lot of questions if the OP asked the vendor to give the number of pav facets for both stones! I know I''m talking a bit in circles, but if this is truly a modified, it is an unusual modified! I''ve also not seen modifieds with such deep crowns.... until now? LOL
I''m not a super huge fan of pale lemonade either... I think the best color for cushions is more of a very light brownish yellow than a very intense yellow yellow... I mean different strokes and all that, but the antique pillow is designed for refraction and the stone you have is designed to intensify the color. Even your stone had it been cut differently would have had a less intense yellow but bigger refraction. I think, personal thought here, that no matter *what* color you go for you have to consider the cut first and it should be one that isn''t attempting to look white OR yellow. KWIM?Date: 4/13/2007 6:05:22 PM
Author: yellowsparkles
OK, haven''t gone to bed yet. I was just thinking about my ring. I like it but I really want bigger. I like the FIY and in the right light it really does look intense. I like the intense opposed to pale lemonade.... But, I really want bigger.The thought of a 2 ct pillow cushion is to die for. (ok that was extreme, but you get the point (maybe a 10 ct cushion is to die for)). I have always liked the old fashioned look of cushions and how each one is unique. I am not a jewelery wearer in general. I wear one piece and never change it. So I really want THE one ring and be happy with it forever. IS that possible???
Check out the Pav and Crown on this baby..., and yes... according to the GIA... it would be called a modified too!!!! Alltough it was cut in the late 1800''s!!!
Pretty cool looking modified.
What shade of yellow is that Tiffany cushion?Date: 4/13/2007 7:55:03 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
I'm not a super huge fan of pale lemonade either... I think the best color for cushions is more of a very light brownish yellow than a very intense yellow yellow... I mean different strokes and all that, but the antique pillow is designed for refraction and the stone you have is designed to intensify the color. Even your stone had it been cut differently would have had a less intense yellow but bigger refraction. I think, personal thought here, that no matter *what* color you go for you have to consider the cut first and it should be one that isn't attempting to look white OR yellow. KWIM?
When I was choosing my stone I put cut then clarity then carat...... then color. Actually I think I established clarity first and really wanted a VS2 so I pretty much just looked at those. Then it was all about getting a really nice size in a cut that I found interesting and excelled at fire. I didn't care what color it was. I was looking for a J because I liked warmth but the FIRST thing I said to myself when I opened the box is oh, that's not yellow enough followed quickly by I can't see the culet! LMAO!! The culet is slightly large LOL Anyway... I figured that if the stone came out of the ground, was the right clarity and cut then whatever color it brought with it was AOK to me. I was very excited that I'd found a J VS2 that was just awesome to me, but if I were to poof my *own* stone it would probably be closer to 4 carats and be an M or so LOL But that was me.
Ideal rounds are geared to return white light and you don't really see through them very much. These antique cushions (like asschers) have a lot of windowing depending on the angle that you look at them. And it's not a bad thing, it is an amazing thing, super duper wonderful refractions happen in those conditions. And having a bit of color to let the stone stand instead of just looking like glass, does help with these cuts IMO. It gives them another dimension of substance when you look at them from all sides and angles. But it isn't that you want to go to a fancy intense shade... in that the color then becomes the star and the cut is just a supporting role. With the antique cuts they are sculptures where cut reigns and clarity is important and *some* color enhances it and size just magnifies the entire package. The bigger the better with this cut! hehehe
You know DG that is a very interesting point.... its modified - but modified HOW? Hmm..... and I''ve only seen that one plot for modifieds.... but cushion brilliants have two distinctive plots and produce two very distinctive looks - and share a name. And yet old mine brilliants and SOME cushion brilliants can be almost indistinguishable.
::giggle:: there''s something about them for sure! Its funny because I really really am glad that this is my #1 stone, but now of course I want an asscher and marquise and of course a superideal round and an emerald and... and... and......!!!!!!!!!!!!
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