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Sorry to hear you lost one of the melee stones! :(2 I hope it turns up! I always get nervous when I acquire older pieces—cleaning them will frequently remove some of the magic “gunk” that’s holding something in place!
 
MomInstyle said:
I just dropped my ring as well as 3 others at my jeweler. Today somehow I managed to lost one on melee on the side. It needs some works: two girdles chip that needs repoloshing, prongs need to retip, one melee needs replace, and size down sz5 which 1 size more my actual size. I notice my finger swell up during summer and golf season.

I ask the jeweler to weigh the stone when he unmounts the stone.
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How exciting. I think once those girdle chips are removed your diamond will sparkle even more. We had one PS member who bought an OEC with a girdle chip and it looked like the chip was reflected in the diamond. She had the chip removed and the diamond looked amazing. If I remember right the weight loss was pretty insignificant. I can't wait to see the ring and diamond when it is finished.
 
I got a quote back from my jeweler. He dismantled and weighed the stone as 1.37 ct. He says once repolish or recut, it will look more like a cushion cut. He suggests I like to keep it for myself, then polish, if i like to see it, make it would be a good idea to have it recut to a cushion.

1)Retip, reset, and replace missing meelee $224.
2)Polising the chipped girdle will lost 0.01-0.02 points. It cost $85
3)Recut which it will lost 0.10-.15ct. And it clost $345 plus tax (10%).

I just call the jeweler and decided to polish the stone. I want to leave it the way for now. Hopefully, I will get it back end of next week.

This is the 5th ering that I will be alternating. I don't know if i will be selling it. I am hoarding because i want to pass down to my daughter and two future daughter-in-law.
 
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LisaRN said:
How exciting. I think once those girdle chips are removed your diamond will sparkle even more. We had one PS member who bought an OEC with a girdle chip and it looked like the chip was reflected in the diamond. She had the chip removed and the diamond looked amazing. If I remember right the weight loss was pretty insignificant. I can't wait to see the ring and diamond when it is finished.
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Do you by any chance know the thread for the pser?
 
I couldn't recut the stone. I'd hurt my own heart in the process. A nice polishing up of the girdle and strong setting... you're good to go! I've got a couple of old wonkies I inherited. I could never recut them. Heck.. a couple I can't even bear to reset since the settings are original.
 
OcnGypZ said:
I couldn't recut the stone. I'd hurt my own heart in the process. A nice polishing up of the girdle and strong setting... you're good to go! I've got a couple of old wonkies I inherited. I could never recut them. Heck.. a couple I can't even bear to reset since the settings are original.
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As I was on the call with the jeweler, i decided to polish up the stone instead of recutting.

Do you have any that you polishing before/after pic?
 
LisaRN said:
Here you go. Aren't the results amazing!
https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/oec-recut.240785/
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Thanks for the link! Wowza! What a amazing turn out! This is really make me rethink about the ring with two stones ( both stone st 1.25ct per stone) both have chip on the girdle, one is bigger than the other that i saw for sell. Perhaps if the seller wiggle the price to $2000.

Mine is just a polishing but I cannot wait to see how it turn out.
 
MomInstyle said:
As I was on the call with the jeweler, i decided to polish up the stone instead of recutting.

Do you have any that you polishing before/after pic?
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No.. back in the 70's it would never have entered our minds to take before and after pictures of our diamonds. We just made sure our stones matched our plottings. Caught a leading New England jeweler attempting a switcheroo while having a 1.76 reset.
 
Jeweler contacted and said all jobs are complete and ready to be picked up. One is the message is that after the repolishing, the stone still weigh 1.37ct . The loss was so small that the scale couldn’t detect it.

I will pick it up tomorrow. Can’t wait!
 
Eek! So excited for you! And happy to hear that the weight loss was negligible.
 
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