Gene's newest stones (precision gem)

[Acinom]

Acinom where did you get those images? Did Gene do another periscope?

He did a video. You can see it if you scroll down on the 'what's new' page. The images are stills from the video.

 

[iLander]

All my Gene email issues were my fault, he got right back to me once I fixed my spam list.

But that didn't help me when that FABULOUS tourmaline came up, I was too slow!

It. Is. So. Beautiful.

I really hope someone posts RL pix of it.

 

[dk168]

I too was slow and missed the tourmaline.

I shall contact Gene and request for a custom piece once the piggy bank has been fattened up.

DK

 

[edelweissmaedl]

I asked him about custom cutting after I missed the step cut London blue topaz. Curious to see how his new option goes, since he wasn't open to that previously.

 

[RTFrog]

Hello everyone

Been a little while, but had to post this addition

Picked up this tanzanite:



Trying out something a bit different.



Gene's original photo shows the color perfectly, little gif above has some color distortion to get it board size.

Surrounded by 2 previous Gene Tanzanites

 

[edelweissmaedl]

Do you have jewelry plans for the tanzanite?

 

[chrono]

Do you have jewelry plans for the tanzanite?

A pair of earrings and a pendant.
Love the sparkle/flash in the gif.

 

[RTFrog]

edelweissmaedl: Chrono nailed it, looking at building a quad set - 2 earrings, necklace, and ring. Still waiting for one more

Chrono: Very hopeful to complete the set soon. Trying with the sparkle/flash/glimmer etc - trying to show just how it looks without effects to the photo - even though it's kinda rough on here... working to improve that in the future. Glad you like it - totally something different

 

[Niel]

Hello everyone

Been a little while, but had to post this addition

Picked up this tanzanite:



Trying out something a bit different.



Gene's original photo shows the color perfectly, little gif above has some color distortion to get it board size.

Surrounded by 2 previous Gene Tanzanites

You'll have to tell me how you posted that .gif

 

[RTFrog]

Hi Niel,

Took a test example of the following ring to show you:

I took multiple images and a video for comparison, put them together in any image editor, and then compressed them for the board.

Unfortunately when compressing Gifs for the reduction, you see artifacts and reduce clarity (and sparkle )

Once finished with that, I then uploaded it to Pricescope as an attachment.

Hope that helps!

 

[Siameseroo]

A couple of news stones listed. I like the cut of the peridot!

 

[Niel]

Hi Niel,

Took a test example of the following ring to show you:

I took multiple images and a video for comparison, put them together in any image editor, and then compressed them for the board.

Unfortunately when compressing Gifs for the reduction, you see artifacts and reduce clarity (and sparkle )

Once finished with that, I then uploaded it to Pricescope as an attachment.

Hope that helps!

What's the max file size for a gif on this site? Any idea?

 

[OTL]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

 

[Acinom]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Wow, that's great. Congrats!
Any ideas on how you will set it?

 

[PrecisionGem]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Historically, December is always my slowest month, with the fewest sales. Maybe 90% of my none trade customers are women, who I assume for the most part are buying the stones for themselves. So they are not really gift items. Come December, they now turn their attention to gift items, maybe for their partners. Hopefully for us guys, they are shopping at the Apple Store, and not buying gemstones!

Hope everyone here at Pricescope has a nice holiday season.

One last thing.... Don't support cruelty and buy a Christmas puppy from a pet store. 99% of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, where there mothers spend their entire life in small cages churning out litter after litter, often outside in the cold. A horrible existence.

 

[Niel]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Historically, December is always my slowest month, with the fewest sales. Maybe 90% of my none trade customers are women, who I assume for the most part are buying the stones for themselves. So they are not really gift items. Come December, they now turn their attention to gift items, maybe for their partners. Hopefully for us guys, they are shopping at the Apple Store, and not buying gemstones!

Hope everyone here at Pricescope has a nice holiday season.

One last thing.... Don't support cruelty and buy a Christmas puppy from a pet store. 99% of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, where there mothers spend their entire life in small cages churning out litter after litter, often outside in the cold. A horrible existence.

My mother adopted the sweetest Cavalier King Charles spaniel. She was a pupply mill mom. She's maybe 3 or 5? I am not sure. Either way, I'm not sure she'd ever walked before. The pads of her feet were like a puppies. Soft and pale. Very sad. Luckily she's living the lap of luxury now.

 

[marymm]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

It is a nice size Tourmaline and a very pretty pink color, but for me I wondered if it would be eye-clean (my preference is eye-clean from 6" away top and sides).

I hope the Tourmaline is everything you hope for OTL!

 

[Andelain]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Historically, December is always my slowest month, with the fewest sales. Maybe 90% of my none trade customers are women, who I assume for the most part are buying the stones for themselves. So they are not really gift items. Come December, they now turn their attention to gift items, maybe for their partners. Hopefully for us guys, they are shopping at the Apple Store, and not buying gemstones!

Hope everyone here at Pricescope has a nice holiday season.

One last thing.... Don't support cruelty and buy a Christmas puppy from a pet store. 99% of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, where there mothers spend their entire life in small cages churning out litter after litter, often outside in the cold. A horrible existence.

Do you have anymore Tsavs in the pipeline?

 

[PrecisionGem]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Historically, December is always my slowest month, with the fewest sales. Maybe 90% of my none trade customers are women, who I assume for the most part are buying the stones for themselves. So they are not really gift items. Come December, they now turn their attention to gift items, maybe for their partners. Hopefully for us guys, they are shopping at the Apple Store, and not buying gemstones!

Hope everyone here at Pricescope has a nice holiday season.

One last thing.... Don't support cruelty and buy a Christmas puppy from a pet store. 99% of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, where there mothers spend their entire life in small cages churning out litter after litter, often outside in the cold. A horrible existence.

My mother adopted the sweetest Cavalier King Charles spaniel. She was a pupply mill mom. She's maybe 3 or 5? I am not sure. Either way, I'm not sure she'd ever walked before. The pads of her feet were like a puppies. Soft and pale. Very sad. Luckily she's living the lap of luxury now.

That's so nice to hear. So many times these rescued puppy mill mothers make the best, most appreciative pets. We have a little Yorkie that spent the first 3 years of her life in a Lancaster Pa Amish puppy mill. She was abused pretty bad, and is still afraid to be picked up. We have had her for 4 years now, and she has come around a lot. She couldn't breed, I think because she was so afraid, and that's why the puppy mill gave her up.

 

[Andelain]

How did the Tsav last as long as it did???

 

[Niel]

I got the pink tourmaline! I'm surprised no one snapped it right away ....

Historically, December is always my slowest month, with the fewest sales. Maybe 90% of my none trade customers are women, who I assume for the most part are buying the stones for themselves. So they are not really gift items. Come December, they now turn their attention to gift items, maybe for their partners. Hopefully for us guys, they are shopping at the Apple Store, and not buying gemstones!

Hope everyone here at Pricescope has a nice holiday season.

One last thing.... Don't support cruelty and buy a Christmas puppy from a pet store. 99% of puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills, where there mothers spend their entire life in small cages churning out litter after litter, often outside in the cold. A horrible existence.

My mother adopted the sweetest Cavalier King Charles spaniel. She was a pupply mill mom. She's maybe 3 or 5? I am not sure. Either way, I'm not sure she'd ever walked before. The pads of her feet were like a puppies. Soft and pale. Very sad. Luckily she's living the lap of luxury now.

That's so nice to hear. So many times these rescued puppy mill mothers make the best, most appreciative pets. We have a little Yorkie that spent the first 3 years of her life in a Lancaster Pa Amish puppy mill. She was abused pretty bad, and is still afraid to be picked up. We have had her for 4 years now, and she has come around a lot. She couldn't breed, I think because she was so afraid, and that's why the puppy mill gave her up.

I have a cav too from an Amish farm, rather than puppy mill, exactly. But it still wasn't the right environment for that kind of dog. They just need human company, really need it. He lived like livestock outside in a barn with a roaming area. They let me buy him because he was too big and they wanted smaller pups.


Sorry for the thread jack!

 

[Andelain]

 

[elle_71125]

Love the new pink stones. All but the spinel have sold already (check out that ruby).

 

[minousbijoux]

Love the new pink stones. All but the spinel have sold already (check out that ruby).

Love the clarity and faceting on the pink spinel. I also love the fact that all three stones this time are in the same color family - such a treat for the eyes.

 

[OTL]

Received!

 

[Siameseroo]

Received!

Wow it's gorgeous! Any plans to set it yet?

 

[Sungura]

OTL that pink looks beautiful against your skin. Congrats! I would need to halo it to make it work for me


I'm the happy new owner of Gene's latest unheated Winza Ruby. The gem had great clarity and color stats posted on Gene's site but I still gasped when I received it in Saturday. I really love so many things about this gem: The color is true red leaning towards purple as is my preference. There is a little wisp of blue sapphire, so it is clearly a Winza. There is lots of crystal and clarity and of course that expected Ruby glow. Best perhaps is how the many precision facets break up the glow into little glittery bits. And the profile of this gem is well proportioned. Nothing to hide and everything to show off. As usual my iPhone doesn't capture the detail I wish it would. In the collage below the upper right is Gene's phito and the other three are mine. The upper left gem box photo shows the color it see. Looks more pink in the photos in my hand

As for setting I am thinking a three stone with diamonds. But proportioned so diamonds enhance but don't overwhelm. White gold. Setting and prongs that shows off as much of the Ruby as possible but also lower profile. It's a ways off anyway. But this stone has risen to number two in my setting list.

Happy New Year to All!!

 

[Acinom]

OTL: what a beautiful pink. You have made a great choice. Congrats!
How will you set your new stone?

Sungura: what a dreamstone! I am so glad you bought it so we can drool some more. Definitely a stone with oomph and impact.

 

[minousbijoux]

Sungura: your ruby looks stunning! I like its little blue sapphire corner sneaking in

 

[arabella]

I really missed out over the holidays! OTL and Sungura, you both have some lovely new stones!! I love them both!