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Ideal_Rock
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Well, the stone for the bubblegum ring anyway.
This is the original thread for the bubblegum ring: [URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/which-stone-do-i-need.143386/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/which-stone-do-i-need.143386/[/URL] To summarize, I was looking to duplicate those little pot metal and plastic stone rings that came out of the machines when I was a kid. I thought they were the BEST
thing ever. I will date myself by saying the were a nickel (!). Sometimes you can still find machines with them and they are now a quarter, but still way cool. I wanted to make it "real".
This is the red garnet that Barry wrote about in his October newsletter "During October I plan to introduce garnets of various colors ranging from orange to a nearly pure red" I emailed him and he wrote "I just cut it yesterday. It had a great deal of chromium in it and looked like a chrome pyrope from northern AZ under the Chelsea filter." I told him I was ready to buy it, but because he has so much integrity, he wrote back "I'm going to have to put this stone on the site on Wednesday. I've had several people ask about it and I'll get lynched if I sell it ahead of time." I have to say I wasn't too happy with him,
but I understood. I was purely lucky to get it, since others were trying.
The box photos are in incandescent and the hand shots are in sunlight. It does go dark in low light, but I have a tiny ruby and held the two stones together in low light and they both go out like someone flicked the switch to "off". I think the only way to have a red stone hold color in all lights is to have it be sleepy or go with a red fire opal.
It is indeed very red.
In incandescent it shows the slightest hint of orange and in sun a tiny touch of blue (like a Coke can red), and under those weird fluorescent bulbs it's autumn leaf orange. But it is as red as any stone I've seen. 
A lot of people said this couldn't be done (pure red stone around $200) but as Barry wrote to me "One of the first things you learn at ISG is that in the world of gems, there are no absolutes."
This is the original thread for the bubblegum ring: [URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/which-stone-do-i-need.143386/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/which-stone-do-i-need.143386/[/URL] To summarize, I was looking to duplicate those little pot metal and plastic stone rings that came out of the machines when I was a kid. I thought they were the BEST
thing ever. I will date myself by saying the were a nickel (!). Sometimes you can still find machines with them and they are now a quarter, but still way cool. I wanted to make it "real". This is the red garnet that Barry wrote about in his October newsletter "During October I plan to introduce garnets of various colors ranging from orange to a nearly pure red" I emailed him and he wrote "I just cut it yesterday. It had a great deal of chromium in it and looked like a chrome pyrope from northern AZ under the Chelsea filter." I told him I was ready to buy it, but because he has so much integrity, he wrote back "I'm going to have to put this stone on the site on Wednesday. I've had several people ask about it and I'll get lynched if I sell it ahead of time." I have to say I wasn't too happy with him,
but I understood. I was purely lucky to get it, since others were trying.The box photos are in incandescent and the hand shots are in sunlight. It does go dark in low light, but I have a tiny ruby and held the two stones together in low light and they both go out like someone flicked the switch to "off". I think the only way to have a red stone hold color in all lights is to have it be sleepy or go with a red fire opal.
It is indeed very red.
In incandescent it shows the slightest hint of orange and in sun a tiny touch of blue (like a Coke can red), and under those weird fluorescent bulbs it's autumn leaf orange. But it is as red as any stone I've seen. A lot of people said this couldn't be done (pure red stone around $200) but as Barry wrote to me "One of the first things you learn at ISG is that in the world of gems, there are no absolutes."
Thank you!
You guys are so nice! 
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