sugarplum
Brilliant_Rock
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- Jun 11, 2007
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hi all-
need your expertise and knowledge on colored stones, specifically tsavorites. do they usually have unpolished looking facets and little knicks/pits? took a look at one last week and with a loupe, saw what looked like unpolished/rough facets. some of the facets looked scuffed up and didn''t have the smooth/shiny look. is that normal? we were told that gemstones are usually like that because to maintain carat weight, jewelers will most often leave it that way (and not polish)? we were also told that tsavorites/colored stones will often have inclusions and pits and will scratch easily. any truth to this? or was that just a bad tsavorite and we should keep looking for another that''s smooth and shiny all over?
need your expertise and knowledge on colored stones, specifically tsavorites. do they usually have unpolished looking facets and little knicks/pits? took a look at one last week and with a loupe, saw what looked like unpolished/rough facets. some of the facets looked scuffed up and didn''t have the smooth/shiny look. is that normal? we were told that gemstones are usually like that because to maintain carat weight, jewelers will most often leave it that way (and not polish)? we were also told that tsavorites/colored stones will often have inclusions and pits and will scratch easily. any truth to this? or was that just a bad tsavorite and we should keep looking for another that''s smooth and shiny all over?