Is this amount of leakage excessive?

[thecat]

Thank you.

 

[HappyNewLife]

not a marquise expert, but that ASET looks pretty good - lots more red and green than I tend to see in these posts

 

[thecat]

Thank you @HappyNewLife

 

[Rhino]

one of the better ones for sure

 

[thecat]

Thank you @Rhino for weighing in. What shape will you be maximising performance next? Do you already have a marquise prototype?

 

[Niel]

Not feeling the stone? You seem concerned about it’s performance. Any doubts about keeping it?

 

[thecat]

@Niel I tried the IS on it and was surprised it has so much white when its performance is spectacular. I started wondering how a marquise will perform if there's even less white. But I know how hard it is to find such a marquise. I'm concerned that maybe my idea of spectacular is incorrect since there's so much white. It's like one thinks that an average cut round diamond is a good performer till she sees an ideal round. I'm worried I cannot tell that it's not as good a performer as I think it is.

 

[OoohShiny]

I'm concerned that maybe my idea of spectacular is incorrect since there's so much white. It's like one thinks that an average cut round diamond is a good performer till she sees an ideal round. I'm worried I cannot tell that it's not as good a performer as I think it is.

This was (and still is, TBH) exactly my concern - we know what we see but how do we know if it's as good as it gets?

That is why I purchased one of the branded 'SuperIdeal' cuts - I didn't trust myself to get something locally!

The good thing is that once you have a superideal, you can compare it to others I have found that it performs ridiculously well in virtually all lights (sunlight is always difficult) and I have no regrets about spending the little extra!

Could I have got 'almost as good' for a little less? Possibly, but I had to have a 'mind clean' stone lol

Although that is why PS is great - members help work out if people need a superideal or if they'd be happy to trade the extreme cutting tolerances for a really good GIA XXX, and I think we get great results and good feedback from satisfied givers and recipients!


EDIT: I got distracted and forgot we were talking about shapes other than rounds... LOL

There are at least options for 'super ideal' shapes other than rounds, but Marquise and Pear and Asscher still have to be bought by eye, not by the numbers!