Kelli
Ideal_Rock
- Joined
- May 27, 2008
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To answer your question, yes it did originally have a GIA report. It was excellent cut/ excellent polish/ excellent symmetry. That is why I picked it, I thought the triple ex rating would be the very best I could get. I had enough diamond knowledge at the time to know I wanted the best cut I could find, but not enough to know that there were certain crown/pavilion combos to be looking for in conjunction with certain table size and depth, etc.
Anyway, I bought the diamond and at first I was thrilled, I was getting engaged and hadn't seen enough diamonds in person to know what they could look like in different kinds of lighting. After a while, (I guess when the initial excitement wore off), I started noticing that instead of seeing brightness and sparkles, in many kinds of lighting I was seeing a dark center and chunks of darkness around the edges. I tried to blow it off, but it kept bothering me so I started researching cuts and found out about the whole steep deep light leakage situation. I found the HCA, plugged my numbers into it and got a 4.3. (Or something very close to that, but I think it's right). I read TONS of threads here about steep deeps and realized my diamond was EXACTLY what they were describing. Naturally I was pretty disappointed, considering this was THE biggest purchase I'd ever made at that point. Then I found another pricescoper's thread about her recut done by Brian Gavin. I called him and got all the info about it. Then I thought about it for several more months before sending it away, taking time to think about whether it was really worth the risk. I'm an artist myself, and tend to be a huge perfectionist. The big areas of darkness I saw were making me crazy so I sent it away. It came back with much better proportions and I couldn't have been more thrilled! So if anyone else is out there looking at GIA Ex cut diamonds, of course I warn them so they don't end up disappointed like I was.
I know some peoples' priorites are different, but many times the ones who end up on pricescope ARE the ones who are looking for the brightest, mst sparkly diamond they can find.
Anyway, I bought the diamond and at first I was thrilled, I was getting engaged and hadn't seen enough diamonds in person to know what they could look like in different kinds of lighting. After a while, (I guess when the initial excitement wore off), I started noticing that instead of seeing brightness and sparkles, in many kinds of lighting I was seeing a dark center and chunks of darkness around the edges. I tried to blow it off, but it kept bothering me so I started researching cuts and found out about the whole steep deep light leakage situation. I found the HCA, plugged my numbers into it and got a 4.3. (Or something very close to that, but I think it's right). I read TONS of threads here about steep deeps and realized my diamond was EXACTLY what they were describing. Naturally I was pretty disappointed, considering this was THE biggest purchase I'd ever made at that point. Then I found another pricescoper's thread about her recut done by Brian Gavin. I called him and got all the info about it. Then I thought about it for several more months before sending it away, taking time to think about whether it was really worth the risk. I'm an artist myself, and tend to be a huge perfectionist. The big areas of darkness I saw were making me crazy so I sent it away. It came back with much better proportions and I couldn't have been more thrilled! So if anyone else is out there looking at GIA Ex cut diamonds, of course I warn them so they don't end up disappointed like I was.
I know some peoples' priorites are different, but many times the ones who end up on pricescope ARE the ones who are looking for the brightest, mst sparkly diamond they can find.
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