Post # 1
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Busy bee
Browsing the ring boards today i’ve seen some moissanite that was very yellow. Obviously lemon coloured.
My moissanite ring is very white, it’s unenhanced and my jeweler hand picked the “most beautiful” stone in her opinion.
I’m a big fan of honest business practice and given how for many people moissanite is a contender because of it’s ethical credentials I’d like to see more honesty from moissanite producers.
Getting all the stones GIA graded to give people open choice might be prohibitively expensive for the companies involved but I don’t think that a good honest sort by a colour sensitive employee would go amiss. Some people might want a more yellow stone and would be glad to have the option.
I don’t know, i’m far from being an expert, I just think that since I was able to see a photo of mine first and have someone actually look at it with their eyes that that option should be for everyone. If it’s lemon colour and looks different from the one on the website doesn’t the person who picked it notice and feel bad?
Post # 3
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Buzzing bee
GIA doesn’t grade lab stones. BetterThanDiamond does send its Amora moissanites to NAGL, which has former GIA graders, so that’s the closest they can get.
Post # 4
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Busy bee
@Jabberwocky: I just saw something like that on their forums. I don’t think I understand fully though. Less was saying how they only use the good cut for amora but C and C are less scrupulous and use fair aswell in FB. Those titles though are diamond cuts and since the refractive properties of moissanite are different to diamond I don’t want my stone to have a good diamond cut?
I’m not concerned about my stone because the jeweler shone lights to check it all bounced around the right way or something, I can see the difference in the cut quality from my good CZ with FI’s laser pointer… Hmm
Post # 5
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Buzzing bee
The problem with C&C is that their quality is all over the place, but they claim everything is the same. I love moissanite, but I don’t think I would buy any more right now unless it was screened through a third party like BTD or a jeweler I trusted.
Since their quality is all over the place, Less weeds out the best of what they have in terms of cut and color, and runs them through the Amora process. The RB stones aren’t cut the same as diamonds, but some of them are cut better than others because of C&C’s sketchy quality control, and those not so great stones are the ones Less sends back.
Post # 6
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Busy bee
@Jabberwocky: I totally agree. C and C’s insistance that everything is consistent is obviously tosh!
Post # 7
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Busy bee
Care to share your thoughts Mr/Mrs Poll-and-run? 😀
Post # 8
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Bumble bee
I don’t think C&C is all that interested in honest business practices.
Your idea may be a good one, but third parties like BTD and Schubach already functionally do what you’re suggesting. Thank goodness. I bet Schubach’s might be able to source a very warm moissy if that’s what a customer wanted.
I *think* the problem with particularly warm moissy is that it may have green tones as well as yellow.
RE the GIA, they refuse to grade moissanite. BTD uses graders who were trained by, and worked at, GIA. So they do spend the money to get as close to a GIA report as possible.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the terms Less uses to discuss the cut of moissanite are not reserved for diamonds. A ruby, etc., can have varying degrees of quality in its cut, and those would be referred to as “very good”, “fair”, etc.
So I voted “yes” to your poll but I may have just talked myself into a “no”, hehe.
Post # 9
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Bumble bee
@Anardana: Also I totally agree with you on the person choosing the moissy feeling bad if it’s particularly yellow. There is a Bee here who got a heart cut from moissaniteco and it just looked awful. Really green. But I do trust moissyco’s business ethics so I don’t think they would intentionally sell a sub-par stone (and they allowed her to return her ring even though it was a custom order).
I don’t know. Maybe sometimes the person setting the stone just doesn’t notice?