[Jewelry making - Article 00904] - Re: [Orchid] Gemesis laboratory grown diamonds

[Trevor F]

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>     Personally, I'm not very keen on diamonds at all. There are so many
>     more interesting gem materials. 

    In the interest of supporting what I'm sure will be an unpopular
    opinion I enthusiastically second this and good on ya for saying it! 

    Personally I don't give a hoot whether something comes out of the
    ground or falls out of a machine in a lab.  If it looks good, has
    properties worthy of interest and comes at a good price then I'm
    interested.  For the most part I'd say that the people I make
    jewellery for feel more or less the same.  Now, they're not big
    ticket customers and I'm never going to get rich selling my stuff to
    them but that's another story. 

    As it happens, of course, the machine stuff is often dull as
    dishwater compared to nature's work and so the "real" stuff is often
    much preferred. Not to mention that there are more great stones in
    this earth than are dreamed of by the lab technicians. However if you
    can't tell a natural diamond from a created one then why would anyone
    care where it came from ... except of course the people that make
    pots of money selling them at insanely inflated prices and their
    well-heeled customers who covet their bragging rights. 

    As has been mentioned a few times now diamonds as tools is a whole
    different story. I've worn out more than a few diamond laps and files
    over the years and I must say I love them to bits.  A diamond is far
    more use to me on a file that it is as a gemstone. Your mileage may
    vary. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light

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