Now now DF, I followed your journey to cut your Octavia so you already have a RHR. Besides you and your wife already have a boat load of H&A diamonds. I wonder what happened with 8*, are they still around? I know @Wink used to sell them years ago. I wonder how they compare to the modern CBIs that he sells now.C
Don't be so greedy of hogging up two beautiful CBI stones... send me the 2.21 ct so that I can use it for my RHR....
IDK..I think they are out of business?... The 8* that I posted belongs to my wife's SIL. She wears the ring every day. IIRC her 8* is 1.18ct GIA I VVS2. I purchased the stone in 1999 from a coin dealer friend of mine on the behalf of my BIL.Now now DF, I followed your journey to cut your Octavia so you already have a RHR. Besides you and your wife already have a boat load of H&A diamonds. I wonder what happened with 8*, are they still around? I know @Wink used to sell them years ago. I wonder how they compare to the modern CBIs that he sells now.
@John Pollard is it correct to say that one can see dispersion even with this diamond pavillion up? When I look closely at the zoomed in photo, I see rainbow colors near the girdle. Why is that?
I'm guessing that light will still be bouncing around and refracting within the diamond, even face down!@John Pollard is it correct to say that one can see dispersion even with this diamond pavillion up? When I look closely at the zoomed in photo, I see rainbow colors near the girdle. Why is that?
Ohhh, how gorgeous!!! You are one lucky lady to have TWO gorgeous CBI stones! This 2.79 has my favorite angles, etc, and F VS1 would be my first choice of color and clarity for a H&A stone if money was not an object!
I can't wait to see how you set it! The smaller one would make a killer pendant or three stone ring!
@diamondseeker2006
Thank you for your kind words. 34.5 and 40.8 are my favorite too but @John Pollard tells me that we are talking about very minute differences between that and 34.3 and 40.9. Placed side by side we probably could not identify which CA/PA was which. I think that it is really more of a "mind clean" issue.
A 3-stone ring is a great idea but I have a number of them (although smaller) already. I probably need another one like I need a hole in my head, oh wait, I do have a hole in my skull from my craniotomy to remove a brain tumor.
I heard back from John:@John Pollard is it correct to say that one can see dispersion even with this diamond pavillion up? When I look closely at the zoomed in photo, I see rainbow colors near the girdle. Why is that?
Yup, The main reason why I love my tension setting. My wife's basket settings is a PITB to clean...This sounds lovely, cflutist! I am 100% with you on needing to be able to clean the stone! That is one reason I haven't reset my AVR, because I can clean it well in its current setting! I can't wait to see that gorgeous diamond in its new setting!!!