Login
-
Recent Posts
- List of facts about tourmaline, an opinion
- No Paraiba in top ten list of most valuable/rarest or beautiful gemstones??
- #261 and a bright red cuprian smile
- Included bright sparkling red round. #261
- Getting threw the winter, 1/3 carat of fire
- The amount of lead in tourmaline.
- Color my world of tourmaline.
- Copper’s limited roll in coloring Paraiba/cuprian tourmaline.
Tags
- achroite
- afghan
- baby pink
- bi-color
- blue
- blue-green
- brown
- closed-c
- color-shift
- color dot
- cuprian
- cutting tourmaline
- dichroic
- dravite
- droplet-of-color
- emerald cut
- golden
- green
- green-blue
- hot pink
- IceT
- indicolite
- medium green
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- non-dichroic
- open-c
- orange
- outstanding
- oval
- pale
- pastel
- peach
- personal story
- pink
- purple
- purple-pink
- red
- rubellite
- seafoam
- shield
- unique
- verdelite
- yellow
- yellow-green
Recent Comments
- Romeo48065 on Laurellite a reverse color change tourmaline is unique.
- toadandspur on Outstanding Achroite with a Mystery
- Bruce Fry on Welcome to a World of Color in Tourmaline
- David Walsh on Paraiba/paraiba type tourmaline and treatments.
- rexguo on Laurellite a reverse color change tourmaline is unique.
Archives
- May 2019
- September 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- November 2017
- October 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
Tag Archives: emerald cut
Strange and unique, possibly chrome green emerald cut.
Well here is another gemstone hot off the dop stick. The rough had a natural table that was obvious and the tables outline looked rather like a “D”. It had a moderately strong degree of dichroism with a very nice … Continue reading
An exceptional, red purple emerald cut with punch.#949
I have not been particularly enamored with many of the purple reds that I have seen. The purple cast seems to produce an overly dark tone level that limits flash. Well this emerald cut stands above all that. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Rubellite
Tagged emerald cut, Nigeria, outstanding, red, red-purple, rubellite
Leave a comment
Great blue pink bicolor from Afghanistan.#947
This emerald cut is a beautiful gemstone. It has a body that is a little over half pink with the remainder blue. Both pastel colors have a great medium light tone value. It appears to be eye clean and of … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged afghan, bicolor, blue, emerald cut, outstanding, pastel, pink
Leave a comment
A yellow green bi color that appears to be eye clean, emerald cut.#450
I love this stone. It is a wonderfully subtle, but effective mixture of about 2/3 medium toned green and 1/3 quite pale yellow. It is as bright as an emerald cut can be with superior crystal and the complete lack … Continue reading
Flawed, medium light, non dichroic, pastel blue green emerald cut.#449
This is a nice sized emerald cut that is not dichroic and has a medium light tone level. It has fine crystal, but a couple of residual radial flaws spoil the stone clean flashy look. When I see this amount … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, green, non-dichroic, pastel, verdelite
Leave a comment
Green IceT all around for this highly transparent emerald cut.#448
This pale green emerald cut is not dichroic and without any problems with its cleanliness or crystal. I would honestly think this was a beryl or maybe even a greened quartz before I would guess a tourmaline. With successful polishing … Continue reading
An eye opening golden green emerald cut.#445
I knew there was something “funny” with this emerald cut as soon as I focused on it. It has golden green on the storage box, but color was not that big a deal with this mostly green emerald cut. I … Continue reading
This is a GEM, exceptional gemstone, sea foam, emerald cut.#444
Now I knew that this was an exceptional gem, but it was in a different tray than the other sea foams, so I never really compare it with them. Now, thanks to this effort in posting (2013), I have all … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Verdelite
Tagged afghan, emerald cut, green, outstanding, seafoam, verdelite
Leave a comment
closed ended with poorer crystal, flash driven blue emerald cut.#443
The emerald cut is an Indicolite, because its blue flash does not drift toward green. It has decent flash that seems to be inhibited by poorer quality crystal. Having closed and steeply cut ends doesn’t really effect the stone. It … Continue reading
Well saturated, medium dark tone level, blue green emerald cut, Namibia#441
This solid, established member of the tourmaline community appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. The emerald cut has steeply cut ends because they are closed. Its well saturated, medium dark tone level, blue green color does shift … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, color-shift, emerald cut, green, medium dark, Namibia, verdelite
Leave a comment
Open ended medium tones blue green emerald cut.#440
This is the type of emerald cut that is not rare in the collection. It probably came from Afghanistan and is very pretty without being overtly flashy. It is completely open and is probably eye clean. There really is nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged afghan, blue-green, dichroic, emerald cut, green, medium green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
Bright, medium tone, pastel blue green emerald cut.#439
This emerald cut is only slight dichroic and has a nice, evenly bright, medium pastel blue green color. It appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal. Even with all of this going for it, the stone is fine, … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, green, medium green, pastel, verdelite
Leave a comment
A very bright, non dichroic, medium toned, emerald cut. cuprian.#438
This pastel green with a touch of blue, emerald cut stands out in the tray of green emerald cuts. It has a great medium tone and a very bright eye clean look. I discovered that this gemstone has copper in … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, cuprian, emerald cut, green, Mozambique, non-dichroic, pastel, verdlite
Leave a comment
Golden green, olive medium plus tone level emerald cut.#437
This closed ended emerald cut has a nice medium plus tone level. Its color is golden green on the storage box, but I would probably call it an olive green. It appears to be eye clean and have fine crystal. … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged bronze, emerald cut, golden green, green, olive green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
Smaller emerald cut with dichroic green and yellow green color.#434
This emerald cut has normal angles and an open yellowish green c axis. The a/b axis is a medium green and the overall tone level is moderate. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It came from … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged dichroic, emerald cut, green, Mozambique, open-c, verdelite, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Semi open ends with a flatter crown, green emerald cut.#433
This stone appears to be open on the ends and I cut it with the normal angles. Still the c axis ends lack the expected transparency. The flatter crown gives the stone a wide open look. It appears to be … Continue reading
Completely open, bright blue green emerald cut, Afghanistan#432
This is another winner from Afghanistan. Its yellower c axis sparkles in the end and the bluer a/b axis dichroic color makes for a touchdown. As usual the stone has great transparency. It appears to be eye clean and weighs … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged afghan, blue-green, emerald cut, green, open-c, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Open ended bright, medium toned, green emerald cut, Mozambique#431
Looking at this bright medium toned emerald cut reminds me of my problem with propagating flaws in the green Mozambique material I got about ten years ago. This gemstone has a quite visible, residual, radial flaw flashing at me. I … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged dichroic, emerald cut, green, medium green, Mozambique, verdelite
Leave a comment
Straight lace blue with open ends, emerald cut.#530
Many of the blues that I have and love have either a rich sapphire blue look or sing of the tropical waters. This straight laced blue follows a more stalwart path to success. It does not play with green much … Continue reading
Bare dichroic, medium toned, slightly bronze, green emerald cut.#429
This emerald cut is oriented with the c axis and its bronze color across the stone rather than in the ends,like the vast majority of emerald cuts. Since the stone is barely dichroic in tone values, the bronze color and … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged bronze, dichroic, emerald cut, green, medium green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Barely dichroic, medium toned, blue modified green, emerald cut.#428
This emerald cut has a sophisticated green that plays a bit with blue. It is completely open and barely dichroic. Still it is not eye candy and it may have just a touch of gray to keep it in line. … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, dichroic, emerald cut, green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
Open ended flashy emerald cut with a bit of olive in the color.#427
This is a nice smaller emerald cut with normal ends and a good amount of flash. The c axis is sort of a olive bronze that gives the stone a below average color. It does appear to be eye clean … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged bronze, dichroic, emerald cut, green, olive green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Beautiful completely open dichroic green emerald cut. Afghanistan#426
Now I love a great green in a closed ended, emerald cut, but when you see the true potential of green tourmaline in a completely open gemstone with mixing dichroic colors, it is big step up. Afghanistan again claims the … Continue reading
Semi closed ended, spicy green emerald cut#425
This spicy emerald cut with semi closed ends is pretty flashy for an emerald cut. It appears to be eye clean and have fine crystal. It has a medium tone level and weighs 1.24 carats. Bruce
Slightly included average green emerald cut with closed ends.#424
This smaller emerald cut is slightly included, but has fine crystal and is unaffected by the inclusion. It has closed ends and with steep angles. It has an average, medium dark tone level, green color and weighs 1.20 carats. Bruce
Average green, closed ended, emerald cut.#423
This gemstone is a middle of the road green emerald cut with closed ends. It appears to be eye clean and has nice crystal, but the color is not exceptional. It weighs 2.89 carats and has a medium dark tone … Continue reading
Great green, closed ended, medium dark, emerald cut.#421
This stocky emerald cut looks rather like an octagon with the corners cut off so much, because of the steep angles on the ends of the stone. But it seems to produce a great showing of this gems superior flash … Continue reading
Usambara effect, chrome chromophore, green emerald cut.#420
I will be posting more on the usambara effect in tourmaline, but I will focus more on this specific gemstone in this post. It is always a pleasure to discover something new about tourmaline and then to discover something unexpected … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Etc.
Tagged chrome, dravite, emerald cut, green, umbasara, unique
Leave a comment
Sharp crystal like clarity, green, closed ended emerald cut.#418
I stopped a moment to try and come with a better description of what this stone looks like (including other eye clean and well saturated greens.). Just saying that it is probably eye clean or with fine crystal doesn’t seem … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged closed-c, crystal, emerald cut, green, medium green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Very bright bronze and green, dichroic, emerald cut.#402
The posted stone, emerald cut, 1.13 carats. Older cut stone, round, .83 carats Same material. I like a stone like this very bright emerald cut. It has a very good green c axis color and a more muted bronze a/b … Continue reading
Closed ends with normal angles, green emerald cut.#415
This small emerald cut has normal angle even though it has closed ends. It does show darker areas at each end of the emerald cut and the flash is different. It still has a nice green flash and can be … Continue reading
Closed ended with classic yellowish green color, emerald cut.#414
This emerald cut is an excellent representative for its class of tourmaline. It has the following properties. 1, Strongly dichroic, with a closed c axis. 2, Well saturated slightly yellowish green a/b axis. 3, Cut with steep ends to minimize … Continue reading
Medium light tone, blue green color with significant flaw, emerald cut#412
This bright open blue green emerald cut has sparkle in the ends. It has a more shift in its color than the more common yellow greens which is pleasing. Unfortunately this gemstone appears to have failed and there is a … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged color-shift, emerald cut, green, open-c, verdelite, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Well saturated green with a touch of blue, closed ended, emerald cut.#411
If I was an emerald, I would want to look like this green with a touch of blue tourmaline. (like many synthetic emeralds). The tone level of medium dark along with being eye clean and with fine crystal blows many … Continue reading
Well saturate, eye clean, closed ended green emerald cut#406
This emerald cut is the best you can cut from the world of small highly dichroic green tourmaline crystal that nature has produced. It has the typical well saturated yellow green in a medium tone level, which is good for … Continue reading
Closed ends but a great green emerald cut.#410
This emerald cut has steeply cut ends, but that doesn’t stop the a/b color from being exceptional. Its beauty is helped by being eye clean and with fine crystal. It medium dark tone is very rich and smooth. It weighs … Continue reading
Small emerald cut saturate green color and open ends.#409
This is about as small as I have ever cut an emerald cut. It weighs .33 carats and is a dandy little open ended and well saturated green gem. It also appears to be eye clean. Bruce
Fine, medium toned, green emerald cut that is not visibly dichroic.#408
This is a beautiful, well saturated green emerald cut that is not visibly dichroic. It appears to be eye clean and with excellent crystal. Its completely open ends with the same color and tone values as the sides of the … Continue reading
Dichroic medium light yellow green emerald cut.#407
The ends of this emerald cut are a deeper yellow green, while the body of the gemstone is a medium toned green. It is a nice open gemstone that is only moderately dichroic. It weighs .60 carats. Bruce
Steeply cut ends on a well saturated green emerald cut.#406
The emerald cut has normal ends because it has open ends. Its well saturated green color is is bright and flashy. It appears to be eye clean and with great transparency. It weighs 1.20 carats. Bruce
Steep ends on a semi closed, well saturated, medium toned green emerald cut#405 cut.
This emerald cut has steeply cut ends because it has semi closed ends. Its well saturated medium tone a/b axis color is very nice. It weighs .72 carats. Bruce
Well saturated, eye clean, green emerald cut.#404
This green emerald cut has a well saturated color. It appears to be eye clean and has almost open ends which helps make it flashy. It weighs .64 carats. Bruce
Included green emerald cut with closed ends.#403
This face up visibly included green emerald has a nice clean color. It has a medium dark tone level with closed ends. It weighs 1.18 carats. Bruce
Snappy green classic green emerald cut with semi closed ends#402
This small emerald cut is quite flashy considering that its ends are semi closed. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. The medium toned, snappy green a/b axis is what really makes this gemstone. It weighs 1.13 … Continue reading
Almost square, completely open, green emerald cut, Afghanistan.#401
This is a beautiful almost square emerald cut from Afghanistan. Its medium tone level is a little high for sea foam, but it is in the same blue green family. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. … Continue reading
Long ratio, narrow, blue emerald cut.#1197
This long ratio and slender emerald cut has closed ends. Still the long ratio minimizes the darkness and the stone has a medium toned blue flash. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .64 carats. Bruce
Spicy yellowish green medium plus tone level, emerald cut
The long ratio of this narrow emerald cut minimizes the closed ends and put forward a nice medium plus tone level of spicy green. It appears to be eye clean and weighs.1.32 carats. Bruce
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged closed-c, emerald cut, green, medium green, spicy, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Nice medium toned slightly included emerald cut.#1191
This emerald cut is dichroic with semi closed ends. It has a good amount of flash, but is not eye clean. It has a slight radial feather that is on one side of the table, on the long side. The … Continue reading
Fully open, slightly dichroic, spring green emerald cut.#1169
Over the years of cutting green tourmaline with every degree of darkness down the c axis, I have really come to appreciate an emerald cut like this one. It is slightly dichroic, but the c axis is wide open and … Continue reading
Closed ends does not make a dull green tourmaline, emerald cut#1159
This emerald cut is alive with nice flashes of classic yellow green color. It does have completely closed ends, and is cut with steep ends, but it never was too dark or dull. It appears to be eye clean and … Continue reading
Dichroic, but open ended snappy green emerald cut.#1157
This emerald cut has a little less than a medium tone level to set off a yellowish green to bluish green, flashy, color. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It is only mildly dichroic and has … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, color-shift, dichroic, emerald cut, green, verdelite, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Small, closed ended, blue to blue green emerald cut.#1153
This is a pretty emerald cut that has a very nice medium dark toned blue to blue green color. It has closed ends and steep angles on the ends. It weighs .72 carats. It appears to be eye clean. Bruce
A black that is dark green emerald cut.#1152
This is a stone from the old days that I decided to store with the collection. Then thinking about it, if I want as broad a sample of color/intensity/tone as I can get, I should include it as a permanent … Continue reading
Long ratio, semi closed ends, spicy green emerald cut.#1145
I went to college in Colorado in the late sixties from New Jersey. Besides being introduced to many delicacies of western fare, I ran into Mexican food for the first time. When I asked my “friends” which salsa I should … Continue reading
Open ended and medium toned, green emerald cut.#1143
This emerald cut appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It has open ends and a fine medium tone level. It green color is interesting as it is a bit different than most green tourmaline. Just another example … Continue reading
Heavily included pale green emerald cut. Brazil#1142
When I first got back into faceting after a long hiatus, I bought mostly small sized, inexpensive, cutting rough, much of which was junk. The lot that the posted gemstone came from was Brazilian and had tourmaline with three distinctly … Continue reading
Slightly included pastel golden orange emerald cut.#1140
This tourmaline looks a lot like a topaz I cut years ago. The emerald cut has a nice medium light tone level with darker, but not closed ends. It flash very nicely and is only slightly included. And the color … Continue reading
Blue toward green color shifter, closed ended, emerald cut.#1139
This longer ratio emerald cut is blue in day light, but makes a strong sift toward green in my yellowish light. It appears to be eye clean and has good crystal. It dark tone level and closed ends makes the … Continue reading
Posted in Indicolite
Tagged blue, closed-c, color-shift, emerald cut, green-blue, indicolite
Leave a comment
Add two thirds pink and one third gray together and you get a nice bicolor.#1129
This emerald cut is pure tourmaline in its bicolor nature. About two thirds of the length of the long ratio emerald cut is a nicely saturated, medium toned pink and the rest is a balancing patch of gray. It makes … Continue reading
Classic blue green emerald cut tourmaline.#1118
There, I have brought up the fact,in the title, that this beauty which screams tourmaline when you look at it, is a tourmaline. I think you may have been surprised by the world of color in tourmaline as you brows … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Polishing Tourmaline, Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, green, outstanding, polishing tourmaline
Leave a comment
Lavender without copper, grayed and slightly included, emerald cut.#1117
I love purples derived from copper and manganese in tourmaline, but I never wanted them to be my whole purple world. Therefor I have set sail many times on the quest for any purple with a challenge, are you out … Continue reading
Peach with a pink shadow, dichroic emerald cut.#1116
This is a classic tourmaline gem. An emerald cut with richer ends and a blend of two colors peach and pink. I confess that I would cut emerald cuts even if the rough wasn’t ideally suited for them, at times, … Continue reading
peach pink medium lightly toned emerald cut.#1107
You can see that this gemstone is a slight dichroic peach pink. The ends of the emerald cut are slightly darker than the sides, but the gemstone is very open. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. … Continue reading
There is no cure for the Namibian blues, beautiful, small, emerald cut.#1103
Do I like to cut, large length to width ratio emerald cuts? Not really. Do I like to cut skinny emerald cuts? Not really. But when it comes to desiring top quality blues from Namibia I gladly go the extra … Continue reading
Posted in Cutting Tourmaline, Indicolite
Tagged blue, cutting tourmaline, emerald cut, indicolite, Namibia
Leave a comment
A medium light tone, dichroic, golden brown emerald cut.#100
This smaller emerald cut has an exceptionally nice medium light toned golden brown color. A color that is not common in tourmaline that has lighter tones. It is dichroic and the c axis, which is in the ends of the … Continue reading
A long, long ratio, IceT flavored pastel punch of a bicolor emerald cut. #90
For me the cutting of a long ratio (length to width) ratio is an effort to keep the long narrow rectangular facets square. Actually it is in the polishing, rather than the cutting, that causes my problems, Generally I only … Continue reading
Beautiful tricolor, pastel blue green, colorless, pink emerald cut. Afghan #80
This is a beautiful gemstone and the largest of the three examples I got threw a dealer that had direct connections with Afghanistan. He was also a cutter, but had found them too fragile for his heavy hand. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color
Tagged afghan, bicolor, blue, colorless, emerald cut, green, pastel, tri-color
Leave a comment
A beautiful tricolor, blue green, colorless, pink, emerald cut. Afghanistan. #70
This is a beautiful gemstone. I was given the opportunity to buy this tricolor rough because it is fragile like many bi and tri color tourmaline. I was successful in cutting this long ratio emerald cut, but it needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged afghan, bicolor, blue, colorless, emerald cut, green, tri-color
Leave a comment
Unique faceted watermelon pink center, green rind, emerald cut. #69
Everyone seems to love watermelon tourmaline,(a crystal with a pink core that runs down the long axis of Elbaite tourmaline that is coated with a green rind.), but it is rare that this distribution of color is useful to the … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged bicolor, emerald cut, outstanding, unique, watermelon
Leave a comment
Pastel green pink bicolor from Brazilian “salad”. #59
I read somewhere that Brazil, the homeland of tourmaline for many years was not producing much quality material anymore. But it was producing what they cal “salad” which are native cut gemstones in mostly included tourmaline. Sometimes it is just … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Cutting Tourmaline
Tagged bicolor, Brazil, cutting tourmaline, emerald cut, green, pastel, pink
Leave a comment
longer ratio, blue green emerald cut with steep ends. #400
This longer ratio emerald cut has blue green color and is very dichroic. It has steep ends that help minimize the darkness in the ends of the gemstone. It appears to be eye clean and have great crystal. A fine … Continue reading
Classic bright saturated green with dark ends emerald cut.#399
This is a quintessential example of a classic green tourmaline taken to perfection. Its central color is a bright grass green, but it is so dichroic that the ends are completely dense. To generate flash in the ends and minimize … Continue reading
A blue sliding into greener blue hue in a great emerald cut. Namibia#398
This medium toned blue emerald cut takes on a quite distinct greenish cast in yellowish light, but still stays on the bluer side of green. It is completely with dichroism and its low ratio between its length and its width … Continue reading
Mom’s Stone, A GEM of blue force from Namibia, emerald cut.#397
I have been looking forward to sharing this GEM, exceptional gemstone, with you. It came as a lot of one, separate from all the well saturated medium dark toned material I had been getting from Namibia. Its bright blue hue … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, emerald cut, indicolite, medium blue, Namibia, outstanding
Leave a comment
Slight bicolor with a few marks blue to green emerald cut.#396
This medium light toned emerald cut slides around between green and bluer green depending on the light. It has excellent transparency except for a few marks scattered in the stone. The most important is on a corner of the table … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Indicolite
Tagged bicolor, blue, emerald cut, green, non-dichroic
Leave a comment
Completely open, medium toned blue green, emerald cut.#395
This is a beautiful gemstone. It has a great,completely open, medium toned body. In fact it is not even dichroic, at least by eye. The color shines from the tray without needing to be flashed and when it is moved, … Continue reading
Darker blue green emerald cut with some flaws.#394
This nice emerald cut has a variety of small flaws that are not easily seen in it s medium dark toned body. I don’t think that this stone is unstable, but it is not of the highest quality from Namibia. … Continue reading
Included saturated blue green emerald cut.#393
This was the largest piece I cut from the lot I got from my regular African dealer, before the blues from Namibia became much harder and more expensive to get. It suffers from the moving flaw problem I saw in … Continue reading
Excellent completely open dichroic green emerald cut.#392
This dichroic emerald cut has a great well saturated green c axis on the ends and lighter blue sides. The overall impression of the stone is of a bright flashy medium toned green with a touch of blue. The stone … Continue reading
Medium dark toned, saturated, blue green emerald cut, included#391
This emerald cut suffers from a flaw that propagated itself as I cut the stone. The rest of the saturated medium dark toned body is eye clean and of good crystal, but I don’t know if the moving flaw would … Continue reading
A fine eye clean blue to green emerald cut. #389
This well saturated blue to green emerald cut, shifts with the light. It has open, but slightly darker ends that still flash quite nicely for an emerald cut. It appears to be eye clean and has the typically high quality … Continue reading
Darkly toned blue with touch of gray emerald cut.#387
This darkly toned blue emerald cut has steep ends as a result of having closed ends. The blue is toned down with a little gray and it takes a bit of close inspection to appreciate this gemstone. Under closed inspection … Continue reading
A Namibian revelation, completely open blue green emerald cut.#385
The posted revelation. It weighs 2.75 carats. Mom’s stone, it weighs 5.27 carats. In a separate, private transaction, I receive a lot that contained one piece of rough. I came to call my “Mother’s Stone” because I used part of … Continue reading
Posted in Indicolite
Tagged blue, emerald cut, green-blue, indicolite, Namibia, open-c
Leave a comment
Closed ends with steep angles blue green emerald cut.#384
This emerald cut has closed ends. The medium dark tone and steep ends reveal a well saturated blue green body. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 1.90 carats. Bruce
Very long ratio, dark, blue emerald cut with inclusions.#383
This is a blast from the past. It is one of the few tourmalines in the collection that I cut as a teenager. It has a dark tone level and closed ends that were cut with normal angles. The flash … Continue reading
Normally cut, blue green emerald cut, with slight flaw#382
This smaller emerald cut has semi closed ends that are cut with normal angles. It has a rich well saturated green to blue color depending on the light. It appears to be eye clean except for a slight flaw in … Continue reading
Crown jewel, a Blue Emerald Cut, in Lot from Namibia#381
This is a beautiful gemstone. It came in a lot of over a dozen pieces of rough that I bought privately from my principle African deal. At the time it seemed to be a continuance of steady production from Namibia, … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, closed-c, emerald cut, indicolite, Namibia, outstanding
Leave a comment
Really snappy blue green, not dichroic, emerald cut
Now I like medium dark fully saturated emerald cuts as much as the next man, and maybe more, but when I see a medium tone, well saturated non dichroic barn burn of a blue green, I rejoice. This eye candy … Continue reading
Completely open, medium light tone, green emerald cut.#379
The emerald cut has a wonderful tone level and a green that strikes me as watery, without any blue in it. It dichroic colors appear to be the same color except that c axis is darker. The stones ends flash … Continue reading
Dark ends, dark tone, but great saturated blue emerald cut.#278
This personal stone has limited flash in bars across the stone beclause the ends are very closed. But the flash is a great blue that is rare in tourmaline. It has one faint narrow fracture that is not deep and … Continue reading
beautiful medium toned blue green emerald cut.#377
This is a beautiful gemstone. Its medium blue green color sparkles everywhere in the stone since its ends are completely open and just a bit bluer than the sides. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. This … Continue reading
Deep, completely cut, open medium pastel blue green emerald cut.#376
This is a great gemstone. I cut it with the full complement of 3 steps of facets on the crown and 4 steps of facets on the pavilion. This, along with a medium toned blue green color, that flashes from … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, green, open-c, pastel, verdelite
Leave a comment
Closed and steeply cut ends on a slightly greenish blue enerald cut.#375
Steeply cut ends help mitigate the closed ends on this blue with a touch of green emerald cut. The medium toned blue does not seem as saturated as the best material from Namibia. It appears to be eye clean and … Continue reading
Medium dark tone, hexagonal emerald cut shaped, green.#374
This is the only example of this different back on an emerald cut shape, in the collection. It worked and gave a different radiating flash than an emerald cut’s flash, but I still prefer the old fashion emerald cut. It … Continue reading
Outstanding, medium toned, well saturated, blue green emerald cut.#373
This emerald cut is completely open and flashing. It is slightly dichroic, but from face up, I can not see any darkness or difference in color in the ends from the saturated blue green color on the sides. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, dichroic, emerald cut, green, medium green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Bright, medium tone,saturated, grass green emerald cut.#372
This emerald cut is a beauty. It has well saturated, green flash, sides and ends that flash with a slightly darker green. It appears to be eye clean and with find crystal. It weighs1.09 carats. Bruce
moderately dichroic blue green, moderately toned, emerald cut.#370
This emerald cut easily shows its greener ends and blue green sides when the sun shines on it. It has a moderate tone that is augmented by not having the ends too dark. It appears to be eye clean and … Continue reading
A moderately dichroic blue green emerald cut.#369
This medium toned emerald cut definitely has richer green ends and rather pale bluer green sides. The green ends dominate the stone, so I would call it a green with an overtone of blue. The ends though darker than the … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, dichroic, emerald cut, green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
Moderate dichroism and tone in a blue green emerald cut.#368
When the sun shines on this moderately toned blue green emerald cut you can easily see the dichroism. The more greenish ends are distinctly different from the blue green sides. It has a somewhat muted color, that may be result … Continue reading
Slightly dichroic, but not closed, medium dark blue/green emerald cut.#367
This is a very nice medium dark toned blue with an overtone of green. The color is flash driven and saturated. It appears to be eye clean and have a fine crystal body. The dichroism causes some darkening of the … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, dichroic, emerald cut, green, medium green, open-c
Leave a comment
Medium pastel green with a flaw threw the heart, emerald cut.#366
I should probably replace this smaller emerald cut with another stone. It medium tone green with touches of blue is OK, but it obviously cracked while cutting and I can see areas of white from too far away. It weighs … Continue reading
Medium lightly toned grayed green emerald cut.#365
This medium lightly toned grayed green goes toward the bluish side when permitted by the light. It has a bright flashy look with completely open ends. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 1.91 carats. … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, gray-green, green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
A grayish blue rather watery looking, emerald cut.#364
This medium toned emerald cut has a bit different blue that is desaturated into a grayed blue under my lighting. This gives the stone a feeling of being diluted when it is compared with the saturated Namibian gems. It … Continue reading
Smaller, bright green with a touch of blue, open ended emerald cut.#362
This smaller emerald cut has a color many real emeralds would be jealous of. It is medium dark green with a touch of blue. It appears to be eye clean and has completely open ends. Such sparkle in a darker … Continue reading
A silent moment for an exception blue emerald cut from Namibia#361
Sometime before the availability of Namibian blue tourmaline decreased greatly for me, I bought a lot from my principle dealer out of Africa. The lot had over a dozen pieces of rough in it and I am sure some of … Continue reading
Fine, eye clean, blue green emerald cut.#360
It is nice to have to look at some of these smaller gemstones for the first time in a while. This smaller emerald cut has open ends and such a great medium toned, flash driven blue green color, that it … Continue reading
On the edge of tiny, medium light pastel emerald cut.#359
This has to be one of the smallest emerald cuts I have made. Its medium light blue color is a fine pastel and its open ends give life to the stone. It weighs .37 carats and will probably will not … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, emerald cut, indicolite, medium blue, open-c, pastel
Leave a comment
Fine, rich grass green, with darker ends, but not closed, emerald cut.#358
This emerald is a medium plus toned, flash driven gemstone. It ends are darker, but still open enough to give life to a really fine grass green color. It weighs 1.05 carats. Bruce
Fine, open, blue emerald cut.#357
This small emerald cut is a beauty. It is a legitimate blue that just picks up a little green in the yellowish light. The emerald cut is open ended, bright and flashy. This medium toned joy weighs .65 carats. Bruce
Small, bright, open ended, included, blue green emerald cut.#356
This small emerald cut is a very nice gemstone. Its flaws are not major and the emerald cut is still bright and flashy. It has a medium toned blue green look that grabs the eye. It weighs.68 carats. Bruc
Dark blue with touch of gray, included, emerald cut.#354
This emerald cut has closed ends, but normal angles on the ends. It is pretty dark and has some face up visible flashy flaws. Still it is mainly a grayed blue with just a wash of green. It weighs .91 … Continue reading
Great blue green in a medium toned emerald cut.#353
No need for steep ends on this bright opened blue green emerald cut. It is a very outgoing gem with a medium tone level that is not inhibited by poor crystal of inclusions. It weighs 1.23 delightful carats. Bruce
Bright, crisp, blue green, steep ended emerald cut.#352
This steep ended emerald cut has a medium dark tone, but the flash driven color is a snappy blue green. It is a personal stone that appreciates good light. It weighs 1.17 carats. Bruce
Medium blue with steep ends, emerald cut#351
Steep ends minimizes the darkness from the closed c axis of this medium blue gemstone. The stone appears to be eye clean and of fine crystal. It weighs 1.23 carats and stays blue even in the yellowish light. Bruce
Bright very pale bicolor for the IceT group, an emerald cut.#792
Of all the pieces in the lot of bicolors from Afghanistan, this is only the second piece that stayed together and could be cut. I can easily see the faint pink colored, side and I know there is a little … Continue reading
Tower of Green Power Emerald Cut with Dark Ends.#761
To cut a nice gemstone from tourmaline that has closed ends (very little if any light is transmitted down the principle, c, axis.) restricts your options as a cutter. The choice of the emerald cut is essential for minimizing the … Continue reading
Posted in Cutting Tourmaline, Verdelite
Tagged closed-c, cutting tourmaline, emerald cut, green, verdelite
Leave a comment
A bicolor of rust and cream emerald cut#547
This is really nice gemstone. It is about fifty percent rust color and fifty percent cream. Since the rust color travels down the long axis and colors the cream end, the stone is dominated by rust, but you can still … Continue reading
An emerald cut with open ends and green touched with blue.
No 540 picture for now. This emerald cut has a nice complex color that get touches of blue in a mainly a green world. The gemstones tone level is delightfully breezy and without any darkness in the ends. Such a … Continue reading
Just rolling in peaches, emerald cut.#537
This emerald cut has a nice medium tone level without dichroism. It is completely eye clean and with excellent crystal. It is a peach pastel like a peach pastel should be. It weighs 4.10 carats. Bruce
Very pale peach emerald easy choice for IceT development#536
This is one of those tourmaline that you would think is anything, but a tourmaline. Its tone level is very low and the stones crystal is flawless. It is not dichroic and actually looks like some inexpensive topaz I had … Continue reading
Stately blue emerald cut with authority.#535
The emerald cut is a combination of an absolutely transparent body without any hint of dichroism and wonderful crystal. It is quite impressive without even mentioning a color. Now its eye clean stature and stable blue color (it slips a … Continue reading
A great brown with a different twist, emerald cut.#531
If you look closely at many tourmaline browns, what do you see. An orange that is just not saturated (purity of color) enough to present its orange face cleanly and brightly to the world. But the posted gemstone, which is … Continue reading
Dichroic pink with growth tubes emerald cut.#527
Imperfections in a gemstone do not always make it less beautiful or interesting. Cats eye in tourmaline that are produce by dense formations of growth tubes is a prime example of that beauty and interest in tourmaline. The posted highly … Continue reading
Cyan blue and cuprian rich emerald cut.#525
This smaller emerald cut is a GEM (outstanding gemstone) and was one of the first gemstone from Mozambique that I got, that proved to have copper in it. It has such a bright neon look that I knew it was … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, cuprian, cyan, emerald cut, Mozambique, neon, paraiba
Leave a comment
Slightly graded color in a slightly included, dichroic, peach emerald cut.#517
The title of this post says a lot. With all of it, the bottom line is, it is a pity that I don’t have more peaches like this one. The darker c axis ends are redder than the middle. The … Continue reading
Posted in Orange
Tagged dichroic, emerald cut, graduated tone, orange, pastel, peach
Leave a comment
An extremely faint trace of green in the IceT emerald cut.#516
This emerald cut goes back awhile, to a time when I thought that the straight sharp fagot of tubes in the pavilion of this emerald cut were rutile crystals not growth tubes. (Now I have never heard of rutile in … Continue reading
Slightly dichroic peach emerald cut#507
This cute smaller emerald cut looks a lot like a topaz I cut years ago. It has darker peach ends and a moderately lightly toned center of pastel peach. It is eye clean with excellent crystal for a peachy deal. … Continue reading
Something different a maroon emerald cut.#501
With all the rough I have bought to enlarge the spread of color you would have thought I would have more maroon. Now maroon has a part of me since it was part of my high school colors. Maroon and … Continue reading
Closed ended blue green emerald cut.#749
This emerald cut has normal angles on its ends despite being closed ended. I prefer the flash better on normally cut emerald cuts even though the darkness edges in a little. It appears to be eye clean and has a … Continue reading
Smaller Beautiful Blue Emerald Cut#721
This blue without green emerald cut deserved to be called an Indicolite. I have been reading about reports that the old trade varietal names like Indicolite are going out of favor. In the future just plain Jane names like red, … Continue reading
Decent lavender without copper emerald cut.#715
This emerald cut will not win any prizes for cleanliness or excessive brightness since its crystal is below average, but its color assure it a place in the collection. This is one of my better non-cuprian purples and it is … Continue reading
Posted in Etc.
Tagged dichroic, emerald cut, lavender, Madagascar, non-cuprian, purple
Leave a comment
An emerald cut with a greened bronze color.#713
Now a collection of tourmalines that wants to be inclusive can not only go for the eye candy in the world. Besides I wouldn’t have a lot to cut if every stone had to have great commercial potential. This dichroic … Continue reading
A large fantastic graded pink emerald cut.#712
Some gemstones are so easy to write about. I can not say enough about this absolutely beautiful pastel pink emerald cut. Its tone level grades from a pale pink to a very nice medium pastel pink with a saturation (purity … Continue reading
Strongly dichroic pink with pinch of purple or orange, emerald cut#711
I have seen this combination of a richly colored c axis with some shade of pink and a pale a/b axis with an off color pink. Looking hard I think that the a/b pink has got a little brown in … Continue reading
Posted in Cutting Tourmaline, Pink
Tagged color-shift, dichroic, emerald cut, orange-pink, pink, purple-pink
Leave a comment
Darker bicolor emerald cut of pink and brown.
Before I was able to buy cuprian material from Mozambique, my opportunities to buy purple tourmaline had been severally limited. My hope to buy blue purple had been fruitless. I wished that I had been active when Paraiba was affordable … Continue reading
A slight bicolor with a peach end and a colorless end emerald cut.
You could call this emerald cut a graded color gems, but I prefer to call it a bicolor with an orange end and a colorless end. The darker, but still moderate pastel, reflects down the long axis of the emerald … Continue reading
A yellow glazed in orange for a tasty emerald cut.
A full set of steps present this medium toned beauty. The amount of orange varies with the light, but every view of the stone in different white lights is still beautiful. It is eye clean and has great crystal. I … Continue reading
A mahogany GEM flashes in the collection, emerald cut.
The composite color brown (a color not found in the rainbow that comes from mixing colors) does not get very much respect in the color stone world. I realize that might be changing with the development of a market for … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Orange
Tagged brown-orange, dravite, emerald cut, mahogany, non-dichroic, orange
Leave a comment
Included bright medium toned apple green emerald cut, copper bearing
I did not buy the rough for this included emerald cut as copper bearing. I liked its medium toned blue green to apple green color despite its included grade. I usually try not to cut emerald cuts with inclusions under … Continue reading
A Orange Pink has finally hit the bell, Its a GEM emerald cut.
This larger emerald cut is a gem, (top quality gemstone). It has a complete set of facet steps, four on the pavilion and three on the crown. It has a color that has more or less orange in the pink … Continue reading
A medium toned pink with a squeeze of orange, emerald cut
This is another fine emerald cut with a full compliment of steps. It has a fine, medium toned, pink color which is on the orange side, to be shown by the increased number of facets.. It has an even color … Continue reading
Burnt orange in a great rich tone level, emerald cut
This gemstone has the full complement of facet steps, four on the pavilion and three on the crown, that I cut on emerald cuts. This makes a deeper more scintillating gemstone that can draw you into its rich colorful world, … Continue reading
A complex peach with a side order of pink, emerald cut.
Gemstones with a zestful mixture of pink and peach are relatively rare and quite desirable in such gems as corundum (sapphire) and topaz (precious topaz). Well I think that this posted gemstone has all it has to have, to … Continue reading
Dichroic greenish yellow eye candy, emerald cut
One of the features I love about color in tourmaline is how different a color such as yellow green can look/feel in different gemstones. I think there are at least three different sets of conditions that can produce a yellow … Continue reading
We will call it Pink, but is a lot more, dichroic emerald cut.
Being dichroic has its ups and downs with tourmaline. Dark ends can be an effort and pinks can loose their heat with a browned a/b axis color etc. But then you can hit a home run and actually get around … Continue reading
Snappy meium toned yellow with slight touch of orange emerald cut
This is how a yellow should look, like eye candy. And this emerald cut is just that, but it can not claim the yellow honors completely, because it has a touch of the orange roaming around. The orange comes into … Continue reading
Dichroic medium toned brown, modified emerald cut.
In an attempt to use a cut that better blends the stones two dichroic colors, together I used a modified emerald cut. The cut does not demand as much depth to the gemstone as a Barion cushion and it is … Continue reading
An amazing GEM green emerald cut.
To be a GEM (highest quality gemstone) in the world of green tourmaline is saying a lot. The competition from chrome tourmaline and cuprian tourmaline is intense. Now I am not saying that this gem can match the level of … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Verdelite
Tagged emerald cut, green, non-dichroic, unique, verdelite
Leave a comment
What can I say about gray, dark emerald cut.
I really don’t know how much dark gray tourmaline is out there to be faceted, but this is the only example that I have. It is not just a dud to be kept as an example of the range of … Continue reading
Slightly included pastel peach emerald cut
This pastel peach emerald cut has a full set of facets with four steps on the pavilion and three steps on the crown. This helps enhance the amount of scintillation an emerald cut can produce and potentially makes the gemstone … Continue reading
Golden Reddish Brown Colored Emerald Cut.
This smaller emerald cut has a rich tone level that shows off its golden reddish brown color very well. The stone is dichroic, but the light a/b axis is at the ends rather than the normal arrangement of the c … Continue reading
Smaller amber to brown emerald cut.
This dravite, is a great amber to brown color and is not dichroic. This means that the color is uniform and the end bright and flashy. It appears to be eye clean with fine crystal. It came from East Africa … Continue reading
Pale citrus yellow without green emerald cut from Brazil
When I started cutting gemstones again after a long hiatus, I bought only small material. The first dealers I worked with on the internet were really junk deals. The posted citrus yellow emerald cut was an attempt to get something … Continue reading
Included saturated yellow with a glaze of honey emerald cut.
I try not to cut emerald cuts from included material because the cut makes any inclusions that lye under the table very obvious. But when you have a rare color like yellow and the rough is shaped to cut an … Continue reading
Smaller dichroic reddish brown emerald cut.
This dichroic emerald cut has rich reddish brown ends and moderate, browner sides. The sum of the colors produces what I like to call mahogany. The stone has a darker tone, but the mahogany is interesting in stronger light or … Continue reading
Smaller, on the pink side of peach, emerald cut.
This emerald cut has a fun and fruity color. It is not noticeable dichroic, but I can see both pink and orange in the medium toned stone. The ends are bright and flashy and I always fall for stones that … Continue reading
Included, Bright, Crisp, Pastel Yellow touch of Brown, emerald cut.
If cream was transparent, then it would better fit the color of this emerald cut. So imagine a pastel yellow that is uniform threw out the gemstone and has a transparent creamy touch to it. I don’t think the touch … Continue reading
A orangish brown dravite from East Africa, emerald cut
Brown is not the most desirable color in gemstones, but some stones are so bright and feisty that even brown can not hold them back. This emerald cut is a representative of a group of dravites coming out of East … Continue reading
Included bright sparkling golden peach, emerald cut
The bright refreshing pastel color of this smaller emerald cut, kind of flashes away the eye visible inclusions. Its color definitely dances between a more peach or golden look. The gemstone is not dichroic and its complete open and transparent … Continue reading
Green c axis and golden brown a/b axis emerald cut
This smaller emerald cut tourmaline has a distribution of color that I think is unique to tourmaline. Its c axis is very nice mid toned yellowish green and the a/b axis is a golden brown. In this emerald cut the … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged brown-green, color-shift, dichroic, emerald cut, green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Big and Bright and Brassy, Yellow Green Emerald Cut.
Here is a live one. This large extremely bright yellow green without any dark tones, emerald cut will not calm down. I personally think that yellow greens are some of the brightest tourmalines out there. Whether it is to do … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Verdelite
Tagged bi-color, emerald cut, green, verdelite, yellow-green
Leave a comment
Fine, large, stable, green emerald cut
This larger emerald cut has such a great stable green that the dark ends take very little away from the gemstone. The color is a classic tourmaline green, rich, saturated and with just a touch of yellow. The beauty of … Continue reading
graded green to colorless emerald cut.
I don’t know if I would call this emerald cut a bicolor, because it really is only one color. The colorless end might be a very light green, but I doubt it. The emerald cut is a really bright and … Continue reading
A heavily included blue emerald cut.
This emerald cut has a dull blue color that has a dark tone. it is heavily include with flaws that look like part of the crystal did not grow together very well. That and dark ends makes for a less … Continue reading
The IceTs have been waiting for this pale bi-color emerald cut.
This long ratio emerald cut has a very soft pastel tone level. Yet you can still see the difference between the one half of the gem that is pink while the other half is cream. It is eye clean and … Continue reading
A great and solid green emerald cut with dark ends.
Now no one wants dark ends, but if that is the fate of your tourmaline, than at least get one that has great color. Well this longer ratio emerald cut tourmaline has one great solid green color. Its medium toned … Continue reading
A sophisticated cream/pink bicolor emerald cut
This eye clean bicolor is a beautiful smaller emerald cut. The hot, medium toned pink is a little over one half of the length of the stone, while a cream color fills up the rest. There does not appear to … Continue reading
Classic, longer ratio closed ended, yellow green emerald cut.
This longer ratio emerald cut appears to be eye clean and with good crystal. The emerald cut’s ratio helps to reduce the impact of the close ends. The ends are faceted with normal angles. Its green color is the classic, … Continue reading
Classic, stable green, emerald cut with dark ends and a radial fracture.
Many tourmaline crystal have radial fractures (perpendicular to the c axis) that limit the yield from a crystal. Even if they are not noticeable in the finished gemstone because of the of its rich tone value, they should be removed, … Continue reading
Bright and light without a hint of darkness, emerald cut.
This emerald cut is an example of why it is difficult to make broad generalized statements about tourmaline. Many tourmalines do not show strong or even noticeably pleochroic/dichroic effects. There are many tourmalines in my collection that can not be … Continue reading
Longer ratio blue to green emerald cut.
The longer ratio in this emerald cut reduces the visual impact of the darker ends that are cut with standard angles. It is a bit included toward the keel, but the gemstones richer tones obscure them. Its color floats between … Continue reading
An emerald cut with a color that looks like green vegetable juice.,
This emerald cut has a very different feel than the numerous smaller blue greens ones I have been posting about. It has a fully transparent c axis and a complex rather watery green color under natural light. Under my yellow … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, color-shift, emerald cut, grass green, green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Only pure bright blue emerald cut from Namibia.
This is an Indicolite, a trade name for blue tourmaline, that you should appreciate. It is a stable bright blue that sparkles all over the small emerald cut. I know it is from Namibia, just by looking at it. It … Continue reading
Dark ends on a dark grass green colored emerald cut
This is a classic darker grass green emerald cut. It has dark ends, but normal angles. It longer ratio helps to keep the emerald cut from being too dark. It appears to be eye clean and with good crystal. It … Continue reading
Smaller blue green emerald cut with closed ends.
This blue green emerald cut obviously has dark closed ends, but I cut it with the normal angles. I think it makes a better stone (easier to set) even if the darkness invades the center a little more. The gemstone … Continue reading
This blue to green, lighter and brighter, emerald cut is very nice.
This emerald cut has a different feel to it than many of the smaller ones I have been cutting in the blue/green range of colors. Its ends are darker, but I don’t think that they are closed. The color goes … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, color-shift, emerald cut, green-blue, indicolite
Leave a comment
Smaller blue green emerald cut with normal ends.
Another bit of blue green beauty in a smaller emerald cut. The emerald cut has normal angels on the ends and has an eye clean, darker toned presences. It and its brothers have help keep me cutting threw some pretty … Continue reading
Lightly included saturated yellow emerald cut
This lightly included yellow emerald cut was made from the last preform that I got out of two larger pebbles, I purchased years ago on the internet. The material has the best yellow without a hint of green or brown, … Continue reading
Open Ends and Strong shift from Blue to Green, Emerald Cut
This smaller emerald cut has normal angles on the end, because its ends are open. Open ends lead to flashy ends and having the corners cut off less. Taken together this makes an emerald cut with closed ends look significantly … Continue reading
Posted in Indicolite
Tagged blue, blue-green, color-shift, emerald cut, indicolite, open-c
Leave a comment
Makes you wonder if it is a tourmaline emerald cut.
The only problem with pretending that this is not a tourmaline is the color. I don’t know too many other gemstones that have this stone’s bright yellow green hue. (Maybe beryl) Still all the people who think that tourmaline is … Continue reading
Steep ends and blue green color, emerald cut, trooper.
My collection needs troops like this eye clean, blue green, emerald cut, in significant numbers. They bring beauty into the world, in an affordable way and let me keep cutting. They vary in color between blue and yellow green and … Continue reading
Dark Ends and Passionate Green Emerald Cut
In tourmaline it isn’t always easy being green. You may have closed ends and have a problem finding a cut, outside of an emerald cut. Even when properly cut, your window of transparency and flash is limited and rejection can … Continue reading
Posted in Cutting Tourmaline, Verdelite
Tagged closed-c, cutting tourmaline, emerald cut, green, verdelite
Leave a comment
Nice, clean, blue green with steep ends, emerald cut.
This is one of the pawns in the collection. I have cut a lot of them and each one claims it bit of beauty. They are generally clean and have colors that swim around in the blues to yellow greens. … Continue reading
A purple that wants to be lavender without copper, emerald cut
Well it is time to let you see the difference or not between two similar colors. One is the classic lavender of copper in tourmaline from Mozambique. It is the first image and is a round. The second is … Continue reading
Slightly included spicy green emerald cut.
This nice sized emerald cut is slightly included, but the tiny dark lines are not distracting. This is not true of the emerald cuts color which is a really bright and fun, slightly yellowish green color. The ends of the … Continue reading
Wonderfully open ended blue green emerald cut from Afghanistan.
Many people who have become familiar with commercially cut emerald cuts, hold them in low esteem. They don’t have the scintillation of many other cuts (all emerald cuts share this) and the emerald cut’s flash is lessened by cutting them … Continue reading
Posted in Verdelite
Tagged afghan, blue-green, emerald cut, green, open-c, verdelite
Leave a comment
Blue Spruce Emerald Cut#1041
I like this good sized emerald cut’s color because it shifts around the blue green spruce look. Some greens are so middle of the road and have such stability that one glance, as pretty as it maybe, is all … Continue reading
Dark toned saturated blue emerald cut#1035
This emerald cut with normal end angles is certainly a very saturated blue with out any traces of green in natural light. (touch of green in yellowish light as expected) It flashes nicely in a decent light, but has … Continue reading
Fine Green Emerald cut#1021
Now this is a fine emerald cut. It has all the right properties of clean color that is especial bright under incandescent/yellowish light, tone level and saturation. It also has normal angles on the ends. During the last few years … Continue reading
Small Darker Blue Green Emerald Cut.#1020
This smaller emerald cut is darken by closed ends, but has a good blue color blend with green. It appears to be eye clean and has some flash in the corners which comes from having normal angles on the … Continue reading
Celery juice in a tourmaline emerald cut.#1018
Celery juice was squeezed out of me when I saw this tourmaline. Now I know it is a tourmaline, but this is a jester moment. I would definitely think that this was a beryl if I didn’t know better. … Continue reading
Solid down to earth green emerald cut#1017
In 1968 I returned home from Golden Colorado via Yellowstone and Niagara Falls, after taking a surveying course. I had stayed in cheap motels and eaten fast food so I had a little money left over. My home was … Continue reading
Big pink with c axis in ends emerald cut.#1014
The emerald cut is dominated by the dichroic a/b axis. This color is a very pale pink that shows a touch of cream. The preferred color is the darker pink c axis, with a better saturation, but it was … Continue reading
How long I have waited pink/champagne/green tri-color#1010
Now I love tri and bi and watermelon and completely mixed up tourmaline, but they are not the main thrust of the collection. Color in all its diversity is center stage, yet chances do come along and I have … Continue reading
Almost square, very transparent green, to blue emerald cut.#995
This is a beautiful gemstone. Now that I have gotten that out of the way, this gemstone feels Afghanistan. I think I purchased it in my last significant lot of green tourmaline from anywhere. The squarish cut is unusual, but … Continue reading
A Responsive Engine of Color, Blue Green Emerald Cut#993
Nicely balanced and brightly tuned this engine of color goes from green toward blue in the drop of a light source. Since it idles in mixed light most of the time, I call it a blue-green. It is clean … Continue reading
Long ratio open ended green emerald cut#991
When the choice and supply of tourmaline rough runs down, I usually have a choice. Either buy medium pinks or long ratio greens. With pinks you do not have a problem with closed ends, but they can be included. … Continue reading
How Green is my Afghan Gem#988
This is a beautiful gemstone. Its bluer a/b axis blends beautifully with the more yellow green c axis. I said blend because the tone level of both axis are the same and that gives such a light bright feeling … Continue reading
Long Ratio, Open Ended, Green Emerald Cut#982
Rough that requires a long ratio emerald cut is not #1 on my hit parade. They take effort to keep their long narrow facets square even during the polishing process. Being common does not help my enthusiasm either. The … Continue reading
Clean Moderate Tone Green Emerald cut with open ends.#979
This flashy emerald cut needs to be examined closely to be really appreciated. The end sparkle because they are open and this green tourmaline shows a very good level of transparency. The stone’s color slides from grassy green to … Continue reading
Heavely included, long ratio, blue emerald cut.#962
When I got this rough I knew that it was heavenly included, but it had wonderfully blue views down the c axis. I cut a long ratio emerald cut out of it, because that was the only practical … Continue reading
Wow another pink emerald cut.
This very nice pink emerald cut has its tone level grade smoothly down the length of the gemstone. The tone gradation, without a hue (color) shift could be caused either by an increase in concentration of manganese in the darker … Continue reading
Dravite long ratio emerald cut
On the back of this box I have brown for the color of this beautiful emerald cut, That certainly lacks the flickering fire of inspiration that is need to sell tourmaline. We need a spice name for the long … Continue reading
Pink Purple Emerald cut nice tone#949
This good sized ring stone at 3.68 carats is a fine bright, but sultry pink purple. I see a couple of flecks deep in the stone by eye, but they are not detracting and the stone has a very … Continue reading
baby blue and baby pink bi-color from Afghanistan#946
When I received this semi- preformed piece of rough in the mail, with other bi-colors from Afghanistan, I thought it was too go to be true. It also had a decent price. Now this rarely happens and it makes … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color
Tagged afghan, baby blue, baby pink, bi-color, blue, emerald cut, pastel, pink
Leave a comment
Stately emerald cut of defusing pink.#938
When the rough for this beautiful tourmaline came in, it left no doubt about what kind of gemstone needed to be cut. The whole gemstone is pink, but its tone grades from medium dark to a paler pastel as … Continue reading
Blue tinted with Green Emerald Cut#933
This 1.24 carat is a blue that is tinted with green. A color that tends to float with more or less green depending on the lights in your life. It is eye clean under the table of the emerald … Continue reading
Blue/Green emerald open ends#931
This rather pudgy emerald cut wins the day with open ends that are more greenish than the rather blue a/b color (typical). The emerald cut permits you to see the different colors easily because it isolates the c axis … Continue reading
Nice classic tourmaline green with dark ends.#930
This 1.70 carat medium toned grass green emerald cut is a pure classic tourmaline. It is eye clean as most material like this is and has the unfortunate dark ends that aren’t too bad in larger ratio gems like … Continue reading
A purple to blue called “Laurellite” by me.#926
This smaller emerald cut is not pure and has somewhat muted colors, but is very exciting to me. You have to work with lighting to appreciate the special place this unheated cuprian tourmaline from Mozambique holds in the world … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Laurellite
Tagged blue, bruce fry discovery, cuprian, emerald cut, laurellite, purple
Leave a comment
A temple of purity in the yellow world.#925
Now cutting an emerald cut from an included piece of rough, that can not be completely clean up, is pushing your luck because any distracting flaws show up real well. This 2.61 carat, great yellow emerald cut, was extracted … Continue reading
Achroic, a colorless call in tourmaline#923
Now you have to be careful when you’re evaluating color in a very pale gemstone, it can catch its apparent color from the world around it. Now an emerald cut is a color cut, so thousands of facets and magnificent … Continue reading
An underwater color in a small emerald cut.#920
This small emerald cut at .44 carats swims around between the greens and blues. I would say it is blue in natural light, which is the light I use to label a tourmaline with a color name. That is … Continue reading
Large ratio green emerald cut with dark ends#918
This green emerald cut is longer than I would like with its narrow width. I generally do not get much rough that is dark in the ends and the crystals are too short to be split into two or … Continue reading
One Half Carat of Pure Rich Pink Joy#912
I try and mix in smaller gemstones in between larger efforts. It kind of relieves the tension of polishing facets that are large enough to both make polishing a physical effort, since I work on a stationary lap when … Continue reading
Long red emerald cut makes good.#910
This emerald cut surprised me when I removed it from the dop stick and got my first look at it. It is a good size at 5.22 carats and with a ratio that is a bit larger than I … Continue reading
Pretty Little Blue Green Emerald Cut#906
Going down the tray this smaller gemstone does not grab you eye because of its size. but focus and you see a very nice gemstone. I don’t think that it is perfectly clean like most tourmalines, but nothing really … Continue reading
Uniquely oriented watermelon emerald cut
This smaller emerald cut looks like it consists of bands of bluish green on either side of a pinker band running the length of the emerald cut, where the ends have a much more intense pink color. Except for … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged bi-color, blue, emerald cut, pink, unique, watermelon
Leave a comment
Bi-color emerald cut with a secret
I love this gemstone. It has a lot going for it. It is well over 5 carats and flawless. The balance of the two colors in the emerald cut is good and the demarcation between the colors is crisp. … Continue reading
Pink, graded tone levels in large emerald cut#938
Many gemstones of different kinds have zoning caused by different tone levels in their color. In amethyst and sapphire etc. it is not considered desirable, but with tourmaline I find it can be used to make an interesting and beautiful … Continue reading
A face-up beige with a split personality.
Watermelon is a great term for describing a classic color distribution in tourmaline. The most famous combination of colors is pink/red in the center with a pale color band separating it from a green skin, but it comes in … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Cutting Tourmaline, Etc., Yellow
Tagged beige, bi-color, emerald cut, unique, watermelon
Leave a comment