[Jewelry making - Article 00131] - Re: [Orchid] Using diamonds from purchased bracelets

[Baumgartle]

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    Ok if there is a bracelet at a department store, hmmm....never buy
    it. And the cttw. is 2 you still need to know that that's 10k gold.
    I'm thinking $30 to $100 maximum. I can see the white ball like
    diamonds that make me confused of what they really are. Always be
    skeptical about buying a diamond until you have a very good
    understanding about the 4 C's. 

    Color - Cut - Carat - Clarity. Not only knowing the four C's will
    help you. Looking at diamonds whether big or small, white or brown,
    flawless to every stage of the differences in inclusions, and round,
    fancy, ideal, thick or thin culet or girdle. Should I mention
    surface polish. Carat weight and carat weight combined. 

    Every scale from clarities abbreviated scale, colores alphabetized
    scale, cuts proportioned scale, and carats weighted scale. Carats
    are not  vegetables, and a point is not a sharp tip. One carat is
    made up of one hundred points. { .25 ct = 1/4ct.= twenty-five
    points. (Five individual .05ct. diamonds combined equal
    .25ct.t.w.)}The scale is actually a weight that's weighed as any
    other object, but of another proportion. A carat is a fraction of a
    gram. (.05ct is used in terms of points. like 5 points. Call it
    Jewelers slang. one carat is 100 points, 20 single diamonds of 5
    points in weight per piece equal 100 points=ONE carat total weight) 
    That was just breaking it down for anybody who hasn't learned this.
    Carat weight is the easy part. 

    Well I'm positive this could keep anyone busy. But, being able to
    make a piece of jewelry is not the finish line in this never ending
    jewelry course. 


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