This standard round brilliant is pretty middle of the road and it is a nice road. There is nothing wrong with this gem, except that it can not make it as a star. It weighs 2.01 carats.
I can tell from the markings on the storage box that this standard round brilliant was cut in the early stages of my rebirth in lapidary. It is a fine trooper, with a decent medium toned pink that is eye clean and with fine crystal. Still it just doesn’t have enough zing to do anything, but sit in its box since I cut it. Not everyone can be a supper star. But on its own and without the competition from the collection this 2.01 carat stone would shine.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This standard round brilliant is pretty middle of the road and it is a nice road. There is nothing wrong with this gem, except that it can not make it as a star. It weighs 2.01 carats.
