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I'm curious what other people think about these lab created stones? Chemically they're the same as natural stones, with superior color and clarity.
Do you care if your gemstones come from nature or science?
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Unless the person that you are giving them to is a professional...
They will never know the difference.
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Unless the person that you are giving them to is a professional...
They will never know the difference.
actually, some stones are so rare in the most pure color and clarity, that if you give someone a too perfect stone, they might question it.
My deal is that I wouldn't care, I'd be happy that whomever purchased it for me didn't spend a fortune on a piece of jewelry... but you talk to some people and they're appalled that anyone would wear lab created.
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Jezza_Belle posted:
Chogram posted:
Unless the person that you are giving them to is a professional...
They will never know the difference.
actually, some stones are so rare in the most pure color and clarity, that if you give someone a too perfect stone, they might question it.
My deal is that I wouldn't care, I'd be happy that whomever purchased it for me didn't spend a fortune on a piece of jewelry... but you talk to some people and they're appalled that anyone would wear lab created.
Those people are called... high maintenance.
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All depends on whether you value them for their beauty or their rarity.
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My wife would S*** down both legs if i could afford to buy her any jewels she wouldnt care if they were blood stones or lab stones.
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Now that I've covered wedding crap, I don't care much about gemstones unless I prospect them myself.
For someone that isn't in to geology, I don't see why lab created versus prospected is a big deal. Semi-precious especially are way to common for it to make a difference.
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Chogram posted:
Those people are called... high maintenance.
We have a winner!
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I like my lab-created stones. Like Rho said, unless you are valuing the gem for its rarity, who cares?
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Unless a fake-diamond turns into a turd 5 years after you make it who cares if it came from a lab or if it came from some slave camp in Africa
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the_great_intex posted:
Unless a fake-diamond turns into a turd 5 years after you make it who cares if it came from a lab or if it came from some slave camp in Africa
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the_great_intex posted:
Unless a fake-diamond turns into a turd 5 years after you make it who cares if it came from a lab or if it came from some slave camp in Africa
i would value a blood gem a hell of a lot more than i would value a lab gem. the more people who die for whatever i'm buying, the happier i'll be with it.
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if you are going to buy something that serves absolutely no purpose and ultimately nothing more than a scam and clever marketing ploy ...u may as well buy the cheaper option
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Walker_ID posted:
if you are going to buy something that serves absolutely no purpose and ultimately nothing more than a scam and clever marketing ploy ...u may as well buy the cheaper option
This is why I try to avoid buying retail jewelry whenever possible. I need to get around to taking a metals class so I can learn to set the stones I used to buy direct from Thailand, prior to the tsunami several years ago.
Generally I buy from ebay or the second hand store "good case" or the pawn shop.
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I gave my wife a lab diamond ring when we were still dating (not her wedding ring, that was real). They're pretty, but there is something about them that just seems off when compared to a natural stone. If you didn't know they were lab-created, though, you'd never notice.
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I don't wear much jewelery but I would prefer lab created.
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I would prefer buying a lab created gem. I don't plan to wear either.
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I really doubt if a non-professional could tell the difference without a fancy certificate and I'd wouldn't be surprised if the professionals couldn't either...
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Caoilin posted:
the_great_intex posted:
Unless a fake-diamond turns into a turd 5 years after you make it who cares if it came from a lab or if it came from some slave camp in Africa
i would value a blood gem a hell of a lot more than i would value a lab gem. the more people who die for whatever i'm buying, the happier i'll be with it.
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lab created diamonds are still very expensive and not that good yet but i'm sure that will change over time
lab created emeralds have been around for a long time and while they aren't cheap they are a lot less expensive than a mined one
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lab created diamonds are still very expensive and not that good yet but i'm sure that will change over time
lab created emeralds have been around for a long time and while they aren't cheap they are a lot less expensive than a mined one
I'm one of those few women that isn't very impressed by diamonds. They're clear and a little sparkly, but I'd prefer something with color.
It would be awesome if they figure out Tanzanite to lab create it, since the mines only seem to be pulling out the lesser quality stones these days.
for anyone interested in buying loose stones, this place has always been great for me. and they have such a huge collection of different stones, I found them from ebay years ago, they still do auctions too.
http://www.thaigem.com
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Jezza_Belle posted:
putzbutt posted:
lab created diamonds are still very expensive and not that good yet but i'm sure that will change over time
lab created emeralds have been around for a long time and while they aren't cheap they are a lot less expensive than a mined one
I'm one of those few women that isn't very impressed by diamonds. They're clear and a little sparkly, but I'd prefer something with color.
It would be awesome if they figure out Tanzanite to lab create it, since the mines only seem to be pulling out the lesser quality stones these days.
for anyone interested in buying loose stones, this place has always been great for me. and they have such a huge collection of different stones, I found them from ebay years ago, they still do auctions too.
http://www.thaigem.com
i've bought quite a few things from them in the past
i love the first ring that shows up here
http://www.addmorecolortoyourlife.com/jewelryfashion/bring-on-the-browns.asp
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putzbutt posted:
Jezza_Belle posted:
putzbutt posted:
lab created diamonds are still very expensive and not that good yet but i'm sure that will change over time
lab created emeralds have been around for a long time and while they aren't cheap they are a lot less expensive than a mined one
I'm one of those few women that isn't very impressed by diamonds. They're clear and a little sparkly, but I'd prefer something with color.
It would be awesome if they figure out Tanzanite to lab create it, since the mines only seem to be pulling out the lesser quality stones these days.
for anyone interested in buying loose stones, this place has always been great for me. and they have such a huge collection of different stones, I found them from ebay years ago, they still do auctions too.
http://www.thaigem.com
i've bought quite a few things from them in the past
i love the first ring that shows up here
http://www.addmorecolortoyourlife.com/jewelryfashion/bring-on-the-browns.asp
I'm not old enough to wear something like that yet, lol.
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I just looked at that auction site. Those are some crappy quality stones!
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i would rather purchase the lab developed stones from a moral standpoint. you don't know where that non_lab_developed stone is coming from, and by what means was it mined.
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Precious stones used to be currency, and of course decoration.
When the world moved on and economies got their act together and dealt with each others representative currencies, precious stones really became about decoration (setting aside the industrial uses of them).
One thing I can tell you is true: you will never go broke overestimating the vanity of human beings.
It hasn't even been all that difficult for the marketing folks to convince people that ostentatious displays of wealth in the form of impractical rare stones is not only a good thing. This vanity issue was readily subverted to the point that so many actually literally believe that they can gauge the depth of their partner's love by the size of the precious stone their partner gives them...
As far as I'm concerned, if you can make a super duper saw blade or abrasive out of them, or if you can shoot a laser through them that does some awesome task, then they're great. Other than that, they might as well just be bits of colored glass as far as I care.
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I love yellow/tan/brown gemstones. Don't care for that ring at all though. But those colors are awesome with my complexion, which has yellow undertones, rather than pink or blue.
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jonus156 posted:
My wife would S*** down both legs if i could afford to buy her any jewels she wouldnt care if they were blood stones or lab stones.
the only jewelry my wife cared about was the engagment/wedding rings.. other than that, she'd rather have the latest iphone than a necklace.
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I fail to see how it matters.
All lab created gems would solve a LOT of issues in Africa.
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I fail to see how it matters.
All lab created gems would solve a LOT of issues in Africa.
I don't know that lab created diamonds are as strong as mined diamonds, so they might not be suitable for certain industrial uses. (Maybe they are, though. I just don't know.)
Apart from that, however, I agree.
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JD_HOGG posted:
I just looked at that auction site. Those are some crappy quality stones!
they have all qualities of stones, look a few pages in from the $2 area, and you find the $150+ stones.
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As others have said, it's hard to tell the difference between lab stones and mined stones. That said, my wife would only care about how it looks in the setting and on her, and not it's origin. If she found out I spent 5 grand on a tennis bracelet and could have got it for 1 grand because it had lab stones, she'd probably tell me to take it back and get the cheaper one.
One of the things I love about her is she is *not* high maintenance and is very grateful for any jewelry.
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