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Too Much Leakage Through Pavillion?

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Have been reading up on material here and getting better informed about diamonds over the last month. Yekutiel at IDJ helped find this 2.80 VS2 F for me. Color and clarity are great and the ~$46k price seems very competitive vs what I've seen from searching whiteflash/other online vendors. The idealscope / cut seem like they're leaking a bit and the symmetry isn't as perfect. Hoping to get a second opinion on the idealscope images & an opinion on if how noticeable the difference between this cut & a perfect "ideal". Yekutiel is looking for some other diamonds with better cuts, but thinks this is a great value for what I'm looking for (~3 carat, ~$50k, Amazing Cut, F-G, VS1-VS2).

Thanks for all the help and thanks for being part of such an informative community - it's been very helpful to educate myself in what can seem like a opaque process!GIA 1237142025-Arrows-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-ASET black (Fancy)-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-ASET white-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-Hearts-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-IdealScope-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-Officelight black-01.jpg GIA 1237142025-Officelight Gray-01.jpg
 

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What are the specs on the stone?
 
Those are computer generated images based on scan data.
See if he can get some real images.
 
I had attached the GIA report as PDF (not sure it went through), but it is a 56 table, 62.3 depth, 36 crown, 40.6 pav angle.

As far as Whiteflash, I had looked at their online inventory & was a bit worried about the G color in AGS showing up as warm in that size.

I'm sure I could have IDJ work on finding a better cut if it'll actually make a noticeable difference vs the one he showed me.
 
Those are computer generated images based on scan data.
See if he can get some real images.
Those were the images he took when we looked at the diamond today - photographed all at the same time w/ his idealscope / aset equipment.
 
I had attached the GIA report as PDF (not sure it went through), but it is a 56 table, 62.3 depth, 36 crown, 40.6 pav angle.

As far as Whiteflash, I had looked at their online inventory & was a bit worried about the G color in AGS showing up as warm in that size.

I'm sure I could have IDJ work on finding a better cut if it'll actually make a noticeable difference vs the one he showed me.
I had attached the GIA report as PDF (not sure it went through), but it is a 56 table, 62.3 depth, 36 crown, 40.6 pav angle.

As far as Whiteflash, I had looked at their online inventory & was a bit worried about the G color in AGS showing up as warm in that size.

I'm sure I could have IDJ work on finding a better cut if it'll actually make a noticeable difference vs the one he showed me.

No worries there - an AGS G color stone is fabulously white! The difference in price is also accounted for by a super ideal cut stone vs. an ideal cut stone.
 
Be as worried about an AGS G as you would be about a GIA G. For the vast majority G is plenty white
 
A 'G' colour showing up as yellow?! If it's an ideal ACA cut, you could put an 'I' next to a diamond in the colourless range, face up in natural sunlight, mounted in a ring and see if anybody can tell the difference. Real world is different to face down, on a piece of white card next to a calibration master stone. I wouldn't have thought AGS vs GIA colour gradings were that much different and online commentary is variable. It may just be they're looking at a low 'colour A' vs a high 'colour B' from either grader.

The ASET suggests at 10 o'clock, there's something not quite right and if it had been a whiteflash stone, maybe an expert rather than 'a cut above' grade? Others who know what they're talking about will be able to chime in.
 
Those were the images he took when we looked at the diamond today - photographed all at the same time w/ his idealscope / aset equipment.
My apologies then, and my compliments to the vendor on the dialed in photo set up.
 
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