Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
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- opalcreations
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Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
Hello everyone,
I started this thread as a place to show off your gemstone photographs.
Show us your favorite gemstones!
Chris
I started this thread as a place to show off your gemstone photographs.
Show us your favorite gemstones!
Chris
Re: Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
I have basically 3 pendents i like, the recent ruby pendent w/tourmaline, the pink topaz/tourmaline, & last, the alexandrite pendent...nothing special-stevie...
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Re: Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
It was prettier in the dome, but I love my Virgin Valley black opal pendant.
I really do need to make what isn't in the "personal collection" buckets available, but I've never gotten a pocket to gusher digging by hand. I carried my pendent in its dome for 5 years or so asking i think 1300, until the dome leaked one winter. There was no African Opal undercutting prices then. I carried it dry for another 2 or 3 years in the display case as an example of what they look like when drying as that mines opal differs from the others somewhat. Then I figured it would keep slowly going away to sand in that display case, so I treated it and cut it with a product made for repairing cracked Australian opals named Opal Cure. That was as far as I got when I ran out of wheels years ago. It is still just flow coated, not polished back down to the surface, because I question the resin curing under the shell. I've bounced it off countless things since then that would have shattered a natural.
This is the best picture i have of looking into the side at the plumes or honeycomb whatever it's called.
I really do need to make what isn't in the "personal collection" buckets available, but I've never gotten a pocket to gusher digging by hand. I carried my pendent in its dome for 5 years or so asking i think 1300, until the dome leaked one winter. There was no African Opal undercutting prices then. I carried it dry for another 2 or 3 years in the display case as an example of what they look like when drying as that mines opal differs from the others somewhat. Then I figured it would keep slowly going away to sand in that display case, so I treated it and cut it with a product made for repairing cracked Australian opals named Opal Cure. That was as far as I got when I ran out of wheels years ago. It is still just flow coated, not polished back down to the surface, because I question the resin curing under the shell. I've bounced it off countless things since then that would have shattered a natural.
This is the best picture i have of looking into the side at the plumes or honeycomb whatever it's called.
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- opalcreations
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Re: Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
I've gotta get me a piece of that opal one of these days, it's pretty!
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Nice opal John.
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The black opal pendent looks to show all colors & a good size too-stevie...
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Re: Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
Here's my favorite faceted Welo. 2.80ct marquise
Merelani Mint garnet cut by Jon Rolfe/gearloose.
.52cts Brazilian Paraiba
Spectrolite - Finland
Sphene
*The mint garnet and sphene are not set; they're just in an oversize squeeze-type holder for the shots.
Merelani Mint garnet cut by Jon Rolfe/gearloose.
.52cts Brazilian Paraiba
Spectrolite - Finland
Sphene
*The mint garnet and sphene are not set; they're just in an oversize squeeze-type holder for the shots.
PinkDiamond
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ISG Registered Gemologist
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Re: Share Your Gemstone Photographs!
Gorgeous, very nice rocks Have you ever put the garnet under a UV light It may turn yellow.
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This stone was personally cut for my wife, by a cutter in Pa. Its a 18.09ct gem silica, in a trapezoid cut. The material contains wisps of chrysocolla floating in a chalcedony base stone, a total blue color floating in a colorless base. This pendent is the 1st stone she wears after waking up daily, very special for her because the stone was cut from the cutters personal collection of rough & is very unique as formed without any green color sometimes found in this material-