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On 8/1/2003 4:21:35 PM vandelay101 wrote:
That's nothing. When I was first looking for my diamond b4 I found this forum, a jeweler was showing me a princess with a pair of locking tweezers. I about fell off my chair when he goes to show me the stone and it flies outta the tweezers and bounces 20 feet across the store to the other counter and bounced on the glass table about 10 times. Needless to say, I didn't buy the diamond from him.
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Yikes--I don't blame you. One of the first things they teach you in gemology is proper (i.e., gentle) use of the tweezers. Locking tweezers especially you have to be careful about screwing down because you can damage the stone easily (less so with diamonds, moreso with other gems). To have it so tight that it flies all the way across the store to the other counter... sounds like you were dealing with a real amateur.