WOW

[rainbowtrout]

My mom''s old promise ring from her first marriage (her husband died,I never knew him) is about a 1.25 ct pear with baguettes in platinum. She doesn''t have specs on it, so I can''t be too exact. Anyway, I had never said anything to her about it bc the ring has a ton of sentimental value for her, but it always looked like a crumby diamond to me--it seemed to have a field of tiny carbon specs all across the bottom, and didn''t really have any fire or sparkle. But, I thought, maybe that''s why it was her promise ring. So today we are having coffee and she says, gee, I havent had these cleaned in awhile. How long? Twenty YEARS. Why? SHe thought you had to take it to a jeweler to get it cleaned.


Oh wow. I rush home with her, get the ring off her hand, dunk it in soapy warm water and scrub gently with a toothbrush--rinse and repeat a few times, final rinse, and WOW--the thing is *gorgeous*--it is totally eye clean, brilliant, and very slightly "warm" (although this is probably just me--I am a wierdo about color and anything below F looks yellow to me). I wish I had thought to take a before picture!

 

[belle]

lol..uhhh...yuck!
hopefully the rings will see the cleaning solution a little more often from now on.

 

[Kaleigh]

Are there after pics??

 

[RockDoc]

RE: Anything below F looks yellow.


Without trying to be a smart alec here, you should have your eyes examined for color defiecency.

There is positively no yellow to be seen in stones higher than a J.

If you truly see yellow in G-I color stones, either what you have been show is not the color you think they are, or you could have a color deficiency problem that could mean something more serious is going on with your eyes.

A good place to start is a local eye school, in your area. Don''t go to a regular optician.

Rockdoc

 

[rainbowtrout]

Date: 1/4/2006 8:28:06 PM
Author: RockDoc

Without trying to be a smart alec here, you should have your eyes examined for color defiecency.

There is positively no yellow to be seen in stones higher than a J.

If you truly see yellow in G-I color stones, either what you have been show is not the color you think they are, or you could have a color deficiency problem that could mean something more serious is going on with your eyes.

A good place to start is a local eye school, in your area. Don''t go to a regular optician.

Rockdoc

Well, I know I''ve got a pretty bad astigmatism in one eye, and I''ve been tested for depth perception with those little color charts and don''t do great on those either. I seem to do OK on matching clothes and stuff...

But I AM being serious, and it isn''t just yellow. I looked at 3 RB "G" stones today and one looked slightly greenish to me and one yellow-y. Then I looked at an E emerald cut, and it looked bright white.

In fact, most of the diamonds I look at don''t seem "white" to me...perhaps I don''t know what it''s supposed to look like?

Why not a regular optitian?

 

[rainbowtrout]

Date: 1/4/2006 8:25:31 PM
Author: kaleigh
Are there after pics??

Indeedy, as soon as I talk my FI into taking them (he is good photgrapher and its his camera)

 

[glaucomflecken]

from the peanut gallery...

opticians are frame stylists who measure, fit and dispense eyewear. They do not do eye examinations.
you can have your eyes thoroughly examined by an optometrist or ophthalmologist and they (we) can determine if you have a color deficiency problem.

sincerely, your friendly neighborhood optometrist, PNP75


BTW post pics!!!!

 

[FireGoddess]

You can''t tell me there''s a gorgeous 1.25 ct pear floating around and then not show me.

That''s mean.

I definitely want to see some pictures!!!!! And re: 20 years of crud...it blows my mind!

 

[peonygirl]

Very cool! You should get your mom an ultra-sonic jewelry cleaner so she can clean it weekly.

 

[rainbowtrout]

1965 ring on mom''s new 2005 13 wk old ragdoll kitten:

a wht-gold and sims copy of her old wedding band (she had to sell the real one during some hard times):

 

[rainbowtrout]

the first pic is a little odd--had the devil of a time getting a good pic! I dunno what that strange reflection in the middle is

 

[widget]

GREAT CAT PIC!!!!

She seems quite pleased having that bauble hanging off her nose!

Author: FireGoddess
re: 20 years of crud...it blows my mind!

I knew a woman who wore her diamond ring for FORTY YEARS without ever removing them!!! The only 'cleaning' that got done was with a toothbrush while she was wearing it! (A jeweler had to cut it off her finger when she was recently scheduled for surgery...)

widget

 

[rainbowtrout]

My mom managed to get him that relaxed by brushing his coat for awhile...currently he is racing around the apartment trying to teethe on other people''s feet! He does have a little yellow collar with a bell on it that he wears around though

 

[RockDoc]

Date: 1/4/2006 9:26:47 PM
Author: PunchNPie75
from the peanut gallery...

opticians are frame stylists who measure, fit and dispense eyewear. They do not do eye examinations.
you can have your eyes thoroughly examined by an optometrist or ophthalmologist and they (we) can determine if you have a color deficiency problem.

sincerely, your friendly neighborhood optometrist, PNP75


BTW post pics!!!!

For the color hue discrimination tests Im speaking of, they are more advanced than the Ishihara plate system ( the placards with the dots in different colors). That is pretty basic stuff.

The Farnsworth - Muselll type test is more accurate and what credentialed appraisers have to take periodically ( more often when you''re over 50 yrs old). Even many opthalmalogists don''t have the testing equpment to perform this level of testing.

I did have a guy once bring in a diamond that was K-L and he insisted it was a H. I showed him his stone''s color comparing it with the Master Color Comparison Diamond set, and he agree that the color of his stone was about K-L. Then he said something very curious...

"When I picked it out, the guy showed me a tray of about 25 diamonds, and this one was the "whitest" one. The other stones were much more yellow, and he told me those were in the K-L range."

Some jewelers don''t have a clue what color grade a diamond really is. The assume the wholesaler''s grade of it is correct. They don''t have gemological training, don''t own color grading master sets, haven''t had color hue deficiency testing, and many times the diamonds they have are not graded by a major lab.

So it may not be your eyes, it could be that you''re being shown lower colors grade stones, which really do appear yellow-ish.

However, if this isn''t the case, it could be you have something else wrong healthwise, and the signal of it is being transmitted through your ability to see. Diabetes can drastically affect vision.
Color vision acutiy also varies with some people based on various times of the day, and how much caffeine is in their system.

Rockdoc

 

[glaucomflecken]

yes correct the Farnsworth test is much more accurate/discriminating than the Ishihara plates and can determine also the type of color blindness one has. I was not aware that appraisers have to take this test periodically, that is interesting to know, and makes great sense!


AWESOME rings!!!

 

[CourtHorn]

Thanks for sharing the beautiful ring.

Also, thanks for the info about the eye/color problems. This weekend i had the same problem. I was at a fancy-schmancy jewelry store looking at diamonds and EVERY SINGLE ONE looked yellowish to me, even the E and F''s. I was with a friend and she told me I was nuts, as the rings we were looking at were not yellow at all. I was wondering if there was something wrong with me. I will make an appointment with my eye doctor.

Pricescope helps me out in all aspects of life, not just diamonds!!

 

[glitterata]

First of all, goodness, that''s a PROMISE ring? I wish somebody would make me some promises!

Second, I hope there''s nothing wrong with your health (and indeed, that pear looks quite warm to me too in the picture). But if there is, better to know so you can get treatment--and what more fun way to find out than looking at a lot of diamonds?

 

[rainbowtrout]

Date: 1/5/2006 1:40:42 AM
Author: glitterata
First of all, goodness, that''s a PROMISE ring? I wish somebody would make me some promises!


Second, I hope there''s nothing wrong with your health (and indeed, that pear looks quite warm to me too in the picture). But if there is, better to know so you can get treatment--and what more fun way to find out than looking at a lot of diamonds?

Well, my vision is already bad enough, so I hope so too

Anyway, yeah...her first husband was a lot older and had money, I suppose. Her e-ring was a big emerald cut solitaire which she auctioned for charity a loong time ago. Couldn''t bear to keep it, i guess. She used to tell a funny story about it though:

One day, she was at a nice party with the husband, and the other women were all a little older and socialites to boot (she was more of a bookish type but had to do the social thing bc of her husband''s job). Anyway, she went to the bathroom and heard two women come in and talk about how her ring had to be fake bc it was too big. So, having been picked on all night already, she came out and said Oh really? Being young and foolish, she walked over to the mirror and proceeded to cut/smash the glass with the "fake" diamond, then walked out in quite the huff! Now knowing her, she may have punched the mirror and the diamond only helped, but still...

 

[devientdrow]

haha what a funny story!!!!!! So that gorgeous ring up above was not the engagement ring? Only the PROMISE ring!!!!???!!! Your mom has gotten some VERY gorgeous wedding jewelry! I like the wedding band too....sims or no it''s very pretty!

 

[Ann]

Date: 1/5/2006 9:16:02 AM
Author: rainbowtrout

Date: 1/5/2006 1:40:42 AM
Author: glitterata
First of all, goodness, that''s a PROMISE ring? I wish somebody would make me some promises!


Second, I hope there''s nothing wrong with your health (and indeed, that pear looks quite warm to me too in the picture). But if there is, better to know so you can get treatment--and what more fun way to find out than looking at a lot of diamonds?

Well, my vision is already bad enough, so I hope so too

Anyway, yeah...her first husband was a lot older and had money, I suppose. Her e-ring was a big emerald cut solitaire which she auctioned for charity a loong time ago. Couldn''t bear to keep it, i guess. She used to tell a funny story about it though:

One day, she was at a nice party with the husband, and the other women were all a little older and socialites to boot (she was more of a bookish type but had to do the social thing bc of her husband''s job). Anyway, she went to the bathroom and heard two women come in and talk about how her ring had to be fake bc it was too big. So, having been picked on all night already, she came out and said Oh really? Being young and foolish, she walked over to the mirror and proceeded to cut/smash the glass with the ''fake'' diamond, then walked out in quite the huff! Now knowing her, she may have punched the mirror and the diamond only helped, but still...

Funny story indeed!! Love it. I wonder what the 2 women thought?