chloeishere
Shiny_Rock
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Hello everyone! 
I decided I need to start a thread on my sapphire so I won't keep posting pictures in other threads, and unintentionally threadjacking. It's poor etiquette!
So, I started out on Pricescope way back in January 2010, posting about a sapphire that was purchased on ebay for my engagement ring. https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/hi-would-you-look-at-a-sapphire-with-me.156194/ Unfortunately, it didn't look like the picture, and we sent it back.
Then I looked around the internet for months and months, trying to find a sapphire that I liked within budget (we had a small budget-- I was aiming for $500 total. This is discussed a bit more in the original thread). I specifically did not want a darker true sapphire blue, but a stone with light or light-medium hue, with either blue-green or blue-purple tones, and was okay with a color shift or color change stone. I also didn't mind a little gray-- I like icier blues as well. Finally, I wanted a round cut stone. Not that I'm particular, or anything.
Long story shorter, I conversed extensively with Dan Stair of customgemstones.com (and he is a great guy, totally recommended), but he didn't have rough that was the color I wanted.
Gene Flanigan (of precisiongem.com) posted a stunning Montana sapphire that sold very quickly, but I contacted him to ask if he had any similar colored rough-- he did, but I didn't clarify that I wanted a stone that was light or light to medium in tone, so he had to cut one more (he didn't have any problem selling the other stone, though!
). And, after close to nine months of looking, we had the sapphire I'd been dreaming of! My tip for others looking for "off-color" engagement rings-- I wish I would have contacted more precision cutters initially-- I was shy about doing so. The search would have gone much faster.
Okay, back story done. On to the stone!
The stone is a 1.15 carat Montana sapphire, 5.65mm "face" (I'm not sure how deep, but probably deeper than a round brilliant because it has a fairly high crown), a light blue/ lavender color (which I call periwinkle), heated. This stone was cut in Gene's Jua round design, and has a lot of sparkle and fire. I seriously LOVE it.
He cut it for me, but I asked him how he would rate the stone on his site (he didn't put it up for public sale):
Color: 8/10
Clarity: 9/10
Brilliance: 5/5
TQR: 9.0
Warning: Pictures will continue in next post!
I decided I need to start a thread on my sapphire so I won't keep posting pictures in other threads, and unintentionally threadjacking. It's poor etiquette!
So, I started out on Pricescope way back in January 2010, posting about a sapphire that was purchased on ebay for my engagement ring. https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/hi-would-you-look-at-a-sapphire-with-me.156194/ Unfortunately, it didn't look like the picture, and we sent it back.
Then I looked around the internet for months and months, trying to find a sapphire that I liked within budget (we had a small budget-- I was aiming for $500 total. This is discussed a bit more in the original thread). I specifically did not want a darker true sapphire blue, but a stone with light or light-medium hue, with either blue-green or blue-purple tones, and was okay with a color shift or color change stone. I also didn't mind a little gray-- I like icier blues as well. Finally, I wanted a round cut stone. Not that I'm particular, or anything.
Long story shorter, I conversed extensively with Dan Stair of customgemstones.com (and he is a great guy, totally recommended), but he didn't have rough that was the color I wanted.
Gene Flanigan (of precisiongem.com) posted a stunning Montana sapphire that sold very quickly, but I contacted him to ask if he had any similar colored rough-- he did, but I didn't clarify that I wanted a stone that was light or light to medium in tone, so he had to cut one more (he didn't have any problem selling the other stone, though!
). And, after close to nine months of looking, we had the sapphire I'd been dreaming of! My tip for others looking for "off-color" engagement rings-- I wish I would have contacted more precision cutters initially-- I was shy about doing so. The search would have gone much faster.Okay, back story done. On to the stone!
The stone is a 1.15 carat Montana sapphire, 5.65mm "face" (I'm not sure how deep, but probably deeper than a round brilliant because it has a fairly high crown), a light blue/ lavender color (which I call periwinkle), heated. This stone was cut in Gene's Jua round design, and has a lot of sparkle and fire. I seriously LOVE it.
He cut it for me, but I asked him how he would rate the stone on his site (he didn't put it up for public sale):
Color: 8/10
Clarity: 9/10
Brilliance: 5/5
TQR: 9.0
Warning: Pictures will continue in next post!
I did try it on, and it's lovely. I can't wait til I can wear it! 
I appreciate a beautiful ideal sapphire color now, but I'm always going to be a sucker for those stones that aren't a straight, medium-to-dark saturated blue.
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