Vendors who sell colored stone melee?

[yennyfire]

I am hoping to purchase .15 pink sapphires (14 of them) to set in rose gold for a 3/4 eternity band. I've contacted a couple of people on the list on this forum, but so far, none of them cut melee. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

 

[chrono]

It is not cost effective for custom lapidaries to cut coloured stone melees. You can have your jeweller order some pink sapphire melees from Stuller.

 

[Michael_E]

http://www.stuller.com/products/round-genuine-pink-sapphire/?groupId=92572

Yep, Stuller's about it for melee. The link above shows them down to 1mm, but that awfully small to see much color. Interesting that Swarovski produces natural, machine cut colored stones. I'd love to see one of those machines in action.

 

[yennyfire]

Thanks Chrono and Michael. I'll check them out and see what my jeweler can get from them.

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Multicolour has melee, including some nicely coloured pink spinels.

 

[VapidLapid]

I second multicolor and add gemcal to the list though maybe just for spinel. Last time I looked richard wise had a bunch of 2.5 mm untreated rubies