{"id":47,"date":"2011-06-15T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cicadajewelrydesign.wordpress.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-06-15T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:24:54","slug":"another-day-in-the-life-of-a-g-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/2011\/06\/15\/another-day-in-the-life-of-a-g-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day in the life of a G.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

‘G.D.’ for those of you who don’t know is a \u00a0’Gem Doctor’. People come to me to solve their gem cutting and inlay lapidary needs. Hell, I even blogged about it here<\/a>\u00a0(click the link to view the ‘gem doctor’ blog). I have a quick blog for you guys I’d like to share. I get this customer coming in with a problem. He has a 55carat oval shaped Tanzanite. A monster of a stone with a cut so bad, he’s having a tough time selling it. Whoever cut this overseas, cut the stone comparable to the 5 dollar a day salary he makes. Look, if you have a Ferrari frame and put some Toyota Camry body kit on it, the car is going to look like a Toyota Camry. Get it? You get what you pay for. I don’t think you can tell by the pictures but this stone had the wrong cut, an uneven side to it, and wasn’t given the love it deserves. He wanted me to improve the cutting and I’m telling him it’s going to lose about 30 percent of the stone and thats about $3k worth of weight loss right there so he opted not to cut it and let the stone look like Shrek.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful color but as you can tell, look at the top left corner of the stone and you can see the uneven area.<\/p>\n

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The pavillion on this Tanzanite was cut into a portugease cut and it’s cut with a fat bottom to give it maximum color. Can’t tell from the image but it’s bad cutting.<\/p>\n

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… I’ll hand it to the stone, it has a great vibrant purple\/blue color to it.<\/p>\n

I also received this yellow gold diamonds set around the bezel style piece with a gold plate bottom. Customer wanted an 8mm thick, domed, rose-cut top with a slightly domed cabochon bottom Lemon Quartz. Done.<\/p>\n

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Slightly domed cabbed bottom<\/p>\n

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Hopefully by friday the 17th of June, I’ll have my monster of a blog including 20 pictures and a video ready. I made a rose gold, diamond pave piece with a custom cut onyx in the middle of the ring for a customer.<\/p>\n

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A little preview..<\/p>\n

By the end of next week, I’ll be featuring some work I do for a great LA based jewelry designer named ‘Lena Wald’. So keep your eyes peeled for that one!<\/p>\n

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‘Cigar band’ faceted onyx with silver lining by Lena Wald.<\/p>\n

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‘G.D.’ for those of you who don’t know is a \u00a0’Gem Doctor’. People come to me to solve their gem cutting and inlay lapidary needs. Hell, I even blogged about it here\u00a0(click the link to view the ‘gem doctor’ blog). I have a quick blog for you guys I’d like to share. I get this […] $\"\"$ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83,84,57,8,9,85,86,70,51,87,20,88],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/sako\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}