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ROFL literallyVRBeauty|1387778385|3579374 said:Oh my. Only on Pricescope...!
Yssie|1388260591|3582022 said:Turning the stone every couple of years and waiting for my eyes to age - why on earth didn't I think of that?
This crystal has turned out to be a bit of a PITA. I love the stone otherwise and it has sentimental value so I won't be changing it, but... given a time-turner I'd tell my younger self to avoid the headache and throw a few thousand more at it to go up in clarity from the start! The crystal is close to the table so it doesn't reflect around the stone, so there's no hope for eight equidistant prongs masking it and its reflections in the same way. And it's 'high' on the UGF, near the UGF/star meet, and it's black, so having a prong almost-reach-but-not-quite doesn't mask it so much as make it look like that prong is a little bit longer than all the others... can you tell I've tried a variety of things!?
Actually, on thinking about it, wouldn't a crystal under a UGF deeper in the stone closer to culet than table be liable to reflect not eight but sixteen times per the pairs of LGFs? Which would mean eight double-prongs... which is too much even for me
This is a RHR reset for special occasions and the spotlighting it most commonly encounters is most favourable - I'm beginning to understand why diamonds were considered "evening stones"! The setting right before this one is my absolute favourite for a daily-wear engagement ring, and I'm looking into having a suite of coloured stones custom-cut for it (since the style of the setting delimits diameter, depth, and pavilion bulge). It will feature much shorter prongs
And the true reason I wanted to respond to this - Garry, your response to my offhand comment re. Drena's opinion makes me consider whether I haven't missed a chapter, and wonder if perhaps all is not well as I had assumed. I won't request clarification here on a public forum but please accept my sincere apologies, prayers, or condolences, whichever is(are) most appropriate, if that is in fact the case