Hello! First off, I would like to thank you all for helping me find some really great diamonds. I really appreciate everyone that has given me advice as well as their opinions!
With your help, I have finished my engagement ring upgrade! I purchased the 1.75 RB VS2/I stone and set it into a custom Halo setting. I took the original 1.28 RB SI1/H with med blue fluorescence and sent that off to be set in the 3 stone Vatche Swan with .40 side stones that I bought from WF. I hope to have that ring back in a couple of weeks so I will be sure to post pics.
In the meantime, I am starting new projects that I need some advice on. Although I already have 1.5 ctw studs that I'm keeping, I was looking to get some 1.0 ctw studs to be able to wear with some diamond jackets that I received as a present years ago. At any rate, I happened to find what I thought was a wonderful deal on a .48 VS2/D AGS000 stone that once set would fit perfectly in the jacket. I think it technically may be classified as a FIC?
My concern is that when I called an online vendor to try and match the stone, I was told that the crown angle is steep with this diamond and that there would be a "misalignment of the angles that would affect the brilliance in some lighting". I've looked at the diamond using my handy idealscope and there is minimal light leakage. The diamond has a ton of fire and I think it looks great in all modes of lighting but now I'm wondering if maybe I don't know what a good looking stone should look like! I have seen a stone that had a 35 degree crown angle with a 41.2 pavilion angle and I could definitely see that it lacked brilliance and scintillation and the IS image showed that too. This stone certainly doesn't look like that one...
Here are the stats:
Depth: 62.1
Table: 55.6
Crown Angle 35.6
Pavilion Angle 40.6
Upper 56
Lower 76
score excellent in light return, fire, and scintillation scores 1.4 FIC on HCA
Do you think the misalignment of angles was meant in terms of trying to match it to a less steep stone?
With your help, I have finished my engagement ring upgrade! I purchased the 1.75 RB VS2/I stone and set it into a custom Halo setting. I took the original 1.28 RB SI1/H with med blue fluorescence and sent that off to be set in the 3 stone Vatche Swan with .40 side stones that I bought from WF. I hope to have that ring back in a couple of weeks so I will be sure to post pics.
In the meantime, I am starting new projects that I need some advice on. Although I already have 1.5 ctw studs that I'm keeping, I was looking to get some 1.0 ctw studs to be able to wear with some diamond jackets that I received as a present years ago. At any rate, I happened to find what I thought was a wonderful deal on a .48 VS2/D AGS000 stone that once set would fit perfectly in the jacket. I think it technically may be classified as a FIC?
My concern is that when I called an online vendor to try and match the stone, I was told that the crown angle is steep with this diamond and that there would be a "misalignment of the angles that would affect the brilliance in some lighting". I've looked at the diamond using my handy idealscope and there is minimal light leakage. The diamond has a ton of fire and I think it looks great in all modes of lighting but now I'm wondering if maybe I don't know what a good looking stone should look like! I have seen a stone that had a 35 degree crown angle with a 41.2 pavilion angle and I could definitely see that it lacked brilliance and scintillation and the IS image showed that too. This stone certainly doesn't look like that one...
Here are the stats:
Depth: 62.1
Table: 55.6
Crown Angle 35.6
Pavilion Angle 40.6
Upper 56
Lower 76
score excellent in light return, fire, and scintillation scores 1.4 FIC on HCA
Do you think the misalignment of angles was meant in terms of trying to match it to a less steep stone?
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