First post here.
I've done a load of reading and searching and am aware that most suggest selecting an Excellent/ideal cut as priority for most bling. Obviously when working within budgets/constraints you always need to make sacrifices and while most would probably suggest droppng a colour range or some size, if you can't due to side stones being a certain colour and someones heart being set on a particular size, then you really have cut grade and clarity left to work with.
So if sacrificing from a cut grade of excellent back to very good, where/what would be considered the best places to sacrifice?
Looking at the GIA grading table and comparing HCA scores, its entirely possible to still get a good HCA score on a very good cut. For example, any crown angles less than 31.5 are unable to achieve the GIA excellent status, but thats not to say that a diamond with a large table, and shallow crown angle (say 28.5 degrees) can't get a great HCA score as a BIC.
What effects would one expect to see with a shallow crown?
Example below
.67 H VS2 VG
VG sym and polish
57% Depth
60% Table
28.5C (11%)
41.2P (43.5%)
50% star
80% lowerhalf
thin - medium girdle (3%)
GIA Graded VG, HCA 2.2 at the BIC end of the spectrum.
Obviously this diamond isn't cream of the crop, but what would you expect to pay for something around these stats, and would it make a visually appealing rock to the naked eye.
Thoughts?
I've done a load of reading and searching and am aware that most suggest selecting an Excellent/ideal cut as priority for most bling. Obviously when working within budgets/constraints you always need to make sacrifices and while most would probably suggest droppng a colour range or some size, if you can't due to side stones being a certain colour and someones heart being set on a particular size, then you really have cut grade and clarity left to work with.
So if sacrificing from a cut grade of excellent back to very good, where/what would be considered the best places to sacrifice?
Looking at the GIA grading table and comparing HCA scores, its entirely possible to still get a good HCA score on a very good cut. For example, any crown angles less than 31.5 are unable to achieve the GIA excellent status, but thats not to say that a diamond with a large table, and shallow crown angle (say 28.5 degrees) can't get a great HCA score as a BIC.
What effects would one expect to see with a shallow crown?
Example below
.67 H VS2 VG
VG sym and polish
57% Depth
60% Table
28.5C (11%)
41.2P (43.5%)
50% star
80% lowerhalf
thin - medium girdle (3%)
GIA Graded VG, HCA 2.2 at the BIC end of the spectrum.
Obviously this diamond isn't cream of the crop, but what would you expect to pay for something around these stats, and would it make a visually appealing rock to the naked eye.
Thoughts?