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Rough_Rock
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Hi everyone,
I just got this lovely Kenya Tsav from Yvonne’s sale on impulse and am hoping I could get opinions on what to do from people who have tsavorites and are familiar with setting some deeper colors, perhaps. I’ve been on the fence for a couple days. The color is stunning but, I think because it’s been cut marginally too spready, it has a lot of extinction that makes it black out when light hits it face on, especially in lower light. The color shown off by the brilliant bits of the stone is just an amazingly saturated, true green.
Photos in natural light, stone is slightly bluer in real life than some of the photos. First one has flash added to show off the extinction seen in real life (Sorry for the fingerprints.)
Indoor light:
I sent some photos to Jerry at GemArt to see what he’d say, and he said a recut would probably be 150 and I’d loose about 25%. That seems scary when the stone is already fairly small but the non extinct color is just so lovely it seems a shame to leave it.
What do you guys think? Is it too small to be worth the recut? Should I return it and wait for another with similar color? Would a recut even help or am I mistaken thinking it’s just extinction making it look dark?
On the bright side, pun intended, the reflection pattern looks kind of like a butterfly
Thanks in advance!
I just got this lovely Kenya Tsav from Yvonne’s sale on impulse and am hoping I could get opinions on what to do from people who have tsavorites and are familiar with setting some deeper colors, perhaps. I’ve been on the fence for a couple days. The color is stunning but, I think because it’s been cut marginally too spready, it has a lot of extinction that makes it black out when light hits it face on, especially in lower light. The color shown off by the brilliant bits of the stone is just an amazingly saturated, true green.
Photos in natural light, stone is slightly bluer in real life than some of the photos. First one has flash added to show off the extinction seen in real life (Sorry for the fingerprints.)
Indoor light:
I sent some photos to Jerry at GemArt to see what he’d say, and he said a recut would probably be 150 and I’d loose about 25%. That seems scary when the stone is already fairly small but the non extinct color is just so lovely it seems a shame to leave it.
What do you guys think? Is it too small to be worth the recut? Should I return it and wait for another with similar color? Would a recut even help or am I mistaken thinking it’s just extinction making it look dark?
On the bright side, pun intended, the reflection pattern looks kind of like a butterfly
Thanks in advance!