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  • Reasons to Spend More On Your Next Watch
    This article suggests reasons why you might want to spend more the next time you buy a watch.
  • Dynamics and History of Electrostatic Speakers
    This article deals with the technique of the making and history of electrostatic speakers. It will help the readers to learn more about them.
  • Drum Hardware for a Complete Drum Set
    The article talks about the basics of the drums, i.e. the drum hardware. It describes about the features, advantages, necessities and uses of the drum hardware. Drum hardware basically includes various pedals and drum stands like boom stand, cymbal stand, snare stand, etc.
  • How to Maximise your Guitar's Performance
    This article describes the step-by-step methods of keeping the guitar perfect to ensure its longevity, quality and performance. It briefs you about cleaning & polishing, storage tuning etc. of guitar.
  • Drum Kit Buying Tips
    This article contains some good information about buying drum kits. It gives the buyers few interesting and fine tips on buying different drum kits. It also helps the buyer in deciding how and from where to get the best drum kits.
  • Ways to Master Guitar Care
    The article introduces the guitarists with the methods of caring for guitar. It describes the ways to clean and polish a new guitar and an old guitar as well, like which cleaners to use, what kind of solvents can be used to polish, etc.
  • History of the Twelve-String Guitar
    The article narrates the saga of twelve-string guitar from the time of its invention to reaching the peak of popularity. Although there are controversial on how and when the 12-string guitar came into existence, but its sound still lives on.
  • Fixing A Chip In Your Gemstone
    This article gives you ways and reasons to go about fixing a chip that you might have in your gemstone.
  • Doing Your Own Stone Settings
    This article talks about different kinds of stone settings, the kind of gems to use, and what would make it eaiser for you to do your own jeweley.
  • What Diamond Would You Choose Colored Or Colorless?
    Some peole are a little confused about coloured diamonds; some think that the more colourless they are, the more valuable they are. On the other hand, some of the coloured diamonds are worth more then the cololess ones. You just need to understand about diamonds and how the colored ones are worth more then the colourless ones.

    It is true that fine colorless diamonds are generally more valuable than colored diamonds. However there are exceptions. The pink, blue and canary yellow diamonds, they can be more valuable when they occur naturally in nature and are not artificially colored. As for determining the authenticity of your stone I would suggest that you take it to your nearest trusted jeweler for indentification.

    There are some people out there that have a hard time to understand What a Window in a Gemstone looks like. Many of the photos I've seen of sapphires, tourmaline, amethethyst cut in a round shape appear to have deep color on the outside rim of the Crown but much paler color looking into the top center of the crown. The term window used in the context of colored stones and even diamonds refers to a flaw in the cut of the stone. All crystals of gem materials have a refractive index which is how the stone bends light for reflection and refraction.

    If the stone is cut properly the light should be reflected back out of the top of the stone so all you see is sparkle and light reflected. If you look down the center of the stone and you can see right through it, read through, you can read a paper without distortion then you have a 'window' you can see through. Properly cut gems should not have a 'window' in the middle.

    Diamonds are usually the best cut and most of the time you cannot see through a diamond from the back since all the light is reflected back out through the table. Colored stones rarely are cut as well diamonds and they have much lower refractives indices so have to be cut much differently. Most cutters of colored stones try to get the color in the bottom of the pavilion so it will reflect evenly throughout the stone.

    The concntration of color on the girdle is because it is the thickest part of the stone usually. Paler color is usualy due to the color zoning in the crystal and sometimes the cut can help but not always. Anyways the window in colored stones has nothing to do with color but mainly with the cut.

    Black diamonds are one of the few stones that alot of people would like to have. But i have heard that black diamonds are going to diminish, I am not really sure about the market for black diamonds. I rarely see any one use them. I have had this question asked many times when it comes to colored stones," Do the colored stones come out of the ground already colored?"

    The answer is yes, they are that color out of the ground. Mostly the white stones are more valuable. However some of the large rare colors if they are very clean can demand high prices. It depends on the size and clarity and how pretty the color is and how rare it is. Usually diamond producing areas are quite vast and a number of different variations of colorless to pale yellow and brown or gray colors of diamonds can be found in a certain mine.

    There are exceptions. The diamond mineds in Australia have high concentrations of unusually fancy colored diamonds. You can always go on the internet and see what you can find out some mineds that produc only some kinds of colored stones that you are looking for or you can ask your local jeweler about were he gets his and see what he has to say.

    I prefer colored gems because there is an infinite variety, and it really uses my skills as a gemologist/mineralogist to identify the stones. Some of the most fortunate people are the ones from Rio de Janeiro, because they live in one of the richest gem producing areas of the world! Brazil is not only on the forefront of mining and fashioning gems but also the sophisticated ways in which colored stones are treated to improve their color and transparency.

    Gems can be treated with heat, radiation, oils and polymers to improve their appearance. It is necessary for a gemologist to be able to identify these treatments and pass that information along to the owners or future buyers of these stones.

    Diamonds, on the other hand, are a very controlled market. For the most part, their pricing, production and distribution are controlled by one of the biggest monopolies in the world: DeBeer's Consolidated Mines. Internet sources like Blue Nile have really changed the market in favor of the consumer. Internet diamond dealers have taken much of the mystery out of diamond pricing and grading, and they have forced many retailers to be more honest and transparent with their diamond transactions. This is excellent and good for the buying public.
  • Mounting Styles For Your Gemstones
    This article talks about the different kinds of styles that you could use to mount your stones, but suggest you go to a jeweler to get a mounting done.
  • Precious And Semi-Precious Deep Blue Colored Gemstones
    This article tells you about precious and semi-precious gemstones that are found to be very close to the deep blue color of earth from space.
  • The Difference Between Pave And Bead Set Rings
    This article tells you the difference between pave and bead set rings.
  • Jewelry Work and Ring Repairs
    This article describes some types of jewelry work and ring repairs such as bent prongs, settings, etc.

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