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Tag Archives: honey
Longer ratio oval with a step crown, that is a honey of a golden brown color #95.
NO picture for 95. In the “old” days, when tourmaline for the intrepid amateur cutter, was more available, one of my primary dealers out of Africa would send out emails on new finds of tourmaline. (and other gemstones). This posted … Continue reading
Golden Brown Honey for the Droplet of Color#727
This standard round brilliant is a sweet treat for the droplets of color. A brown overtone maybe a liability for some gemstones, but not for the pretty piece. It is only a touch of honey brown and that makes the … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Droplets of Color
Tagged brown, droplet-of-color, golden-brown, honey
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Orange Brown to Golden Brown like Buckwheat Honey, oval
This sweet gemstone is dichroic with the darker golden to orange brown in the ends of the longer ratio oval. The stones tone level is medium dark and it color is mainly flash driven. It is eye clean with excellent … 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
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
A yellow oval modified with green and brown overtones, oval
I have lauded yellows that are well saturated without green and problems with their purity of color that lead to browns. Well this oval can not escape a touch of green and low saturation (purity of color) that leads to … Continue reading