How to match earrings?

[antelope1]

What do merchants look for when selling matching studs?

For example, I was looking on JA casually and noticed that you usually don't get an superideal matched to a superideal, like in this pair:
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/matching-pairs/view.asp?item1=1279598&item2=1254405
Also, notably, one fluoresces and the other does not. Can you imagine going to the club with your new diamond studs and getting caught under the blacklight? You would look pretty funny with just one glowing earring.

What's to stop you from matching:
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/I-SI1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1287723.asp
and
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/I-SI1-Ideal-Cut-Round-Diamond-1287683.asp
for example? Depth and table %s are within 0.5% and dimensions are 4.37*4.40*2.71 vs 4.38*4.42*2.70.

(Btw, I don't have flash on this computer so I couldn't actually view images of those two diamonds, just going by the numbers on the certs.)

Are you better off buying diamonds separately for studs or buying them as a "matched" pair?

 

[stone-cold11]

Looks good to me. I would not worry too much about 1 glowing stone, medium flour is not going to be very obvious, and slight differences in any parameters, separated by the head makes it very difficult to tell the difference.

 

[starryeyed]

Great question - I have no idea either. I always matched them up myself, like you did. I think you can find better diamonds at a better price looking for the pair yourself.

By the way, the first diamond scored 0.9, but the second scored 2.8 on the HCA.

 

[stone-cold11]

Great question - I have no idea either. I always matched them up myself, like you did. I think you can find better diamonds at a better price looking for the pair yourself.

By the way, the first diamond scored 0.9, but the second scored 2.8 on the HCA.

Since there is idealscope image and it shows no leakage, the HCA score is not that important.

 

[antelope1]

Great question - I have no idea either. I always matched them up myself, like you did. I think you can find better diamonds at a better price looking for the pair yourself.

Sweet! I think we'll go that route go once we start the studs project.

 

[starryeyed]

Great question - I have no idea either. I always matched them up myself, like you did. I think you can find better diamonds at a better price looking for the pair yourself.

By the way, the first diamond scored 0.9, but the second scored 2.8 on the HCA.

Since there is idealscope image and it shows no leakage, the HCA score is not that important.

What do you make of those arrow shafts? Half of them appear gray-ish pink, not the sharp black contrast. If it's diamond tilt causing that, could a more level image show leakage? Just wondering.

 

[stone-cold11]

yap, tilt. If it is tilted and there is still no leakage, a level stone will not show leakage.