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Re: Update on my tiny fancy colored diamond collection
Bebe, I've been buying them over time.
How do I decide which to buy? Each purchase was just gut level with the highest priority placed on color.
Second is cut; I prefer the cuts that do not amp up the color like radiant does.
Unfortunately colored rough being so expensive means it's usually polished into those cuts with longer light ray paths, like radiant.
This result in stronger color grades, which means higher profits.
If they can keep a light ray bouncing around inside the stone more times before exiting it picks up more of the body color.
Some call this cheating but is it just a business reality of FCDs.
My favorite is emerald and asscher cut.
Any FCD I'd buy had to have GIA report and preferably with a GIA-assigned clarity grade; GIA will not grade the clarity of a diamond under .15 ct.
I've surfed Leibish's site daily forever.
They have one list for new stones, and another for sold stones.
Often I'd notice a really nice sold stone that I never saw in the new list.
I called them and found out the coolest colored diamonds sell fast.
That old cut round green appeared on a Friday and I wanted a question answered before I'd buy it so I sweated bullets all weekend and bought it Monday.
I grabbed the Fancy Intense Blue Green Pear the instant it appeared.
That color is riveting!
If you snooze you lose with FCDs.
I like nice color hue and saturation, and that drives the price up, so the size must come down.
I plan to feed them a high carbon diet and get them on an exercise routine so they can grow bigger.
No specific setting plans yet though the round green is most likely to get set into a tension setting.
Bebe, I've been buying them over time.
How do I decide which to buy? Each purchase was just gut level with the highest priority placed on color.
Second is cut; I prefer the cuts that do not amp up the color like radiant does.
Unfortunately colored rough being so expensive means it's usually polished into those cuts with longer light ray paths, like radiant.
This result in stronger color grades, which means higher profits.
If they can keep a light ray bouncing around inside the stone more times before exiting it picks up more of the body color.
Some call this cheating but is it just a business reality of FCDs.
My favorite is emerald and asscher cut.
Any FCD I'd buy had to have GIA report and preferably with a GIA-assigned clarity grade; GIA will not grade the clarity of a diamond under .15 ct.
I've surfed Leibish's site daily forever.
They have one list for new stones, and another for sold stones.
Often I'd notice a really nice sold stone that I never saw in the new list.
I called them and found out the coolest colored diamonds sell fast.
That old cut round green appeared on a Friday and I wanted a question answered before I'd buy it so I sweated bullets all weekend and bought it Monday.
I grabbed the Fancy Intense Blue Green Pear the instant it appeared.
That color is riveting!
If you snooze you lose with FCDs.
I like nice color hue and saturation, and that drives the price up, so the size must come down.
I plan to feed them a high carbon diet and get them on an exercise routine so they can grow bigger.
No specific setting plans yet though the round green is most likely to get set into a tension setting.
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