[Jewelry making - Article 01318] - Re: [Orchid] Gemesis laboratory grown diamonds

[The Doctor]

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>         So why all the negativity about a product that helps you do
>     this? 

    For me, it isn't the product itself, it is the marketing campaign.
    Sexual innuendo is fine for selling marital aids, I just wish they'd
    keep it out of jewelry stores. The posters and "case notes" I've
    been seeing in fine jewelry stores make them sound like pimps. 

>         And incidentally, even if you can't bring yourself to stick
>     diamonds in the center of a piece, they are, without any question
>     in my mind, the best accent stones you can have for ANY colored
>     stone available today. 

    And those are the precise reasons I use them occasionally. As accent
    stones, especially when no other stone in my inventory of finished
    or rough material will work for me. As neutral as colorless diamonds
    are, they can certainly be a "go-to" accent stone. 

    When I say that I'm "not partial to them" I mean that I'm not
    inclined to favor them over another. I don't hate or even dislike
    them, only the greasy marketing hype that has been supported by a
    lot of the industry. I even bought several small, irradiated blue
    and green diamonds at the last gem show I attended, as well as two
    brown "champagne" stones that went well with two opals I had cut.
    Most of the greens and blues have already sold in simple basket
    earrings. My girlfriend, who incidentally never cared much for
    diamonds either, fell absolutely in love with one of the green ones.
    It is now set into the ring she wears on her left hand. I, myself,
    wear two inherited rings with all Old Mine Cut diamonds. They are
    heirlooms (but only to me) that remind me of two very important (to
    me) ancestors. 

    I'm guessing that a lot of people are so put off by the advertising
    ideas of trading "diamonds for sex", "diamonds for a lasting
    marriage" etc., that they are feeling somewhat rebellious about the
    idea of diamonds at all. It is demeaning to both women AND men. If I
    ever feel that I have to trade a diamond for what should be
    unconditional, I'll get a puppy and live in a cave, somewhere. But
    I'll need an alcohol lamp and blowpipe. 

James in SoFl

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