[Jewelry making - Article 00761] - Re: [Orchid] Natural-color yellow Diamonds

[John Donivan]

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    Hi, Linda - don't you hate it when everyone just ignores your? LOL..
    To touch on your question - similar thoughts have been on Orchid many
    times: Natural VS synthetic, treated or enhanced. In my experience the
    public mostly doesn't want stones that are very far away from
    natural. Those that know something are willing to go as far as oiled
    emeralds, heat treated sapphire (due to price/availability, mostly),
    but not so far as something as radical as irradiated diamonds. First
    off, they look fake, mostly, and they tend to have too uniform of
    color. Most naturals have that sublety and nuance that natural things
    often possess. And there is admittedly a mental thing - call it
    snobbery, call it "standards", whatever you like, against having or
    dealing in "synthetics" - in which class I'd put all I said above -
    enhanced, etc., just for convenience. In a nutshell: I personally
    don't like them, because they look fake. More importantly, I can't
    sell them for the same reasons. I would use them if someone asked, but
    everyone I know wants natural. 

http://www.donivanandmaggiora.com


 
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