I received my professional model Ideal-Scope in the mail and I unleased its power on my local jewelers today!
First I tried my mother's diamond, not much pink at all, thought I might be doing something wrong so I rechecked the tutorial, it was the diamond (I didn't tell her).
Next stop jeweler number 1, local jeweler. I looked at some uncerted unknown quality stones. More pink, lots of white in the table and around the edges. It was kind of confusing because there was such a mess of facets in the diamonds it was hard to tell what was what. After some study I came to the conclusion that I had to relax and just look for the overall color patterns.
Jeweler 2, mid tier jeweler. Looked at quite a few triple 0 diamonds (not H&A quality) and some near ideal. Still quite a bit of white and light pink. Not using the scope I was really turned off by the the 000 stones because at certain angles at arms length the arrow pattern reflected very clearly but in a bad way (in my opinion) the rest of the stone kind of dimmed and all that was left was the arrows. I could definitly see a difference with the ideal scope, with the naked eye, I preferred the lesser cut for it's consistency, those arrows just bugged me.
Jeweler 3, elite jeweler (lots of stuff I can't afford). Looked at their brand of super ideal cut 000 next to an AGS 3 cut (HCA score of 3.3, I forgot to get the stats of the 000). I was baffled. Not much difference in the ideal scope, everything was pink! Even the arrow pattern was pink! Looking at them on their own I couldn't see any difference. Both were a vast improvement over Jeweler 2. Symmetry in both looked beyond exact. After 2.5 hours there (I looked at some other stuff too) and a few more stones with similar results I called it quits for the day. My favorite stone of the day was mounted in a pendant, looked like a star burst was caught inside, stunning.
My overall impression, you can't trick the ideal scope, I'm glad I bought it.
Diamonds have to be bought by sight, it doesn't matter what the cert says (I'm still trying to digest this notion, it makes my head hurt).
Questions:
What is up with the diamonds that showed practically all pink, arrows were there but they were pink too? (One was an HCA 3.3, I'll get the other stats by next week, they were 000s though)
When I look through the table and I see a circle around the culet where the arrows meet, what is that? The jeweler #3 stones did not have that, every other stone I have looked at displays the circle scope or no scope.
What makes that facinating star burst pattern? Looks like 1000s of light rays shooting out of the culet.
If the weather is bad again tomorrow the saga will continue, otherwise stay tuned until next week because I'm going boating.
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone has to offer.
-D
First I tried my mother's diamond, not much pink at all, thought I might be doing something wrong so I rechecked the tutorial, it was the diamond (I didn't tell her).
Next stop jeweler number 1, local jeweler. I looked at some uncerted unknown quality stones. More pink, lots of white in the table and around the edges. It was kind of confusing because there was such a mess of facets in the diamonds it was hard to tell what was what. After some study I came to the conclusion that I had to relax and just look for the overall color patterns.
Jeweler 2, mid tier jeweler. Looked at quite a few triple 0 diamonds (not H&A quality) and some near ideal. Still quite a bit of white and light pink. Not using the scope I was really turned off by the the 000 stones because at certain angles at arms length the arrow pattern reflected very clearly but in a bad way (in my opinion) the rest of the stone kind of dimmed and all that was left was the arrows. I could definitly see a difference with the ideal scope, with the naked eye, I preferred the lesser cut for it's consistency, those arrows just bugged me.
Jeweler 3, elite jeweler (lots of stuff I can't afford). Looked at their brand of super ideal cut 000 next to an AGS 3 cut (HCA score of 3.3, I forgot to get the stats of the 000). I was baffled. Not much difference in the ideal scope, everything was pink! Even the arrow pattern was pink! Looking at them on their own I couldn't see any difference. Both were a vast improvement over Jeweler 2. Symmetry in both looked beyond exact. After 2.5 hours there (I looked at some other stuff too) and a few more stones with similar results I called it quits for the day. My favorite stone of the day was mounted in a pendant, looked like a star burst was caught inside, stunning.
My overall impression, you can't trick the ideal scope, I'm glad I bought it.
Diamonds have to be bought by sight, it doesn't matter what the cert says (I'm still trying to digest this notion, it makes my head hurt).
Questions:
What is up with the diamonds that showed practically all pink, arrows were there but they were pink too? (One was an HCA 3.3, I'll get the other stats by next week, they were 000s though)
When I look through the table and I see a circle around the culet where the arrows meet, what is that? The jeweler #3 stones did not have that, every other stone I have looked at displays the circle scope or no scope.
What makes that facinating star burst pattern? Looks like 1000s of light rays shooting out of the culet.
If the weather is bad again tomorrow the saga will continue, otherwise stay tuned until next week because I'm going boating.
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone has to offer.
-D
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