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No SMTB post yet. I'll wait until we have a setting done (interviewing a couple of designers this week, so it's still at least a few months away). But I had to share some photos!!
We ended up purchasing from Yekutiel at IDJ. It was such a delight to deal with him; he pulled in 8 diamonds for us to see and gave us all the time in the world to look at them, ask questions, etc. We finally narrowed it down to our top three and it was sooooo hard to decide on THE ONE. He ran ASET's and Sarin's on those three to help us out; having "advanced eyes", we knew we might not see imperfections that others would - lol!
One had the proportions of a Royal Asscher (high crown, small table, etc) and was triple EX on the Sarin report; we both loved how it looked and lit up but it was an H color and that really bothered my BF. One was perfectly square and had an excellent overall balance; the ASET and Sarin were very good too, and it was Yekutiel's choice if he had to choose one. And one had a slightly lower Sarin than the first, slightly better ASET than the second, had deliciously wide facets, and was the high color my BF really wanted. AND... it turned out to have the fluoroescence I hoped for! Sold!!!
Stats:
3.01 carat asscher cut
D color
VS1 clarity
Table - 62%
Depth - 66.4%
Girdle - Slightly-thick to thick
Polish - Excellent
Symmetry - Very good
Fluorescence - Strong blue
I'm so in love
We ended up purchasing from Yekutiel at IDJ. It was such a delight to deal with him; he pulled in 8 diamonds for us to see and gave us all the time in the world to look at them, ask questions, etc. We finally narrowed it down to our top three and it was sooooo hard to decide on THE ONE. He ran ASET's and Sarin's on those three to help us out; having "advanced eyes", we knew we might not see imperfections that others would - lol!
One had the proportions of a Royal Asscher (high crown, small table, etc) and was triple EX on the Sarin report; we both loved how it looked and lit up but it was an H color and that really bothered my BF. One was perfectly square and had an excellent overall balance; the ASET and Sarin were very good too, and it was Yekutiel's choice if he had to choose one. And one had a slightly lower Sarin than the first, slightly better ASET than the second, had deliciously wide facets, and was the high color my BF really wanted. AND... it turned out to have the fluoroescence I hoped for! Sold!!!
Stats:
3.01 carat asscher cut
D color
VS1 clarity
Table - 62%
Depth - 66.4%
Girdle - Slightly-thick to thick
Polish - Excellent
Symmetry - Very good
Fluorescence - Strong blue
I'm so in love
Yekutiel is wonderful...it's hard not to like him! What are the dimensions of your stone? Do you have the ASETs or images of this one compared to the others that you could post for our knowledge? Looking forward to seeing your end result!!! 
. Anyway, I digress. Here are the three stones. I'd be interested to hear other's thoughts on them! Oh, one thing I will say is that it's SO TRUE that ASET's don't always tell the whole picture with stepcuts. Even Yekutiel was surprised at the way some of the images came out. Oh, another interesting thing is that if the diamond is off angle on the tray even by the slightest amount it really impacts how the images turn out, so what might look like a problem in the photo could be just fine in person.
And, Yekutiel's wife took some photos and a video of our choice for me with their good camera and I'm hoping to get those soon (I'll share if I do!).
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