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To: Telepathic Intruder
Apart from their cost, diamonds are in fact beautiful. Their dirty little trick is that they have a higher refractive index than just about any other crystalline substance, which is what makes them “sparkle”. And the covalent bond holding the lattice structure together essentially makes a whole diamond one gigantic molecule, which is what makes them so hard. I’d like to have a 10 carat one just to look at and another to sell.

I have a 15.45 carat solitaire black diamond ring I wear. . . Truth. Rose gold and Tungsten Carbide. My girlfriend has a 6.5 carat black diamond with 28 champagne diamonds in yellow gold I designed for her. They're our "unmarriage" rings.


My ring.


Her ring.

I designed them, provided the stones, and had them made by AK jewelers in Sacramento, CA. I have a larger black diamond I trying to figure out what to do with. . . It's 92 carats. . . about an inch and an eighth in diameter.


Actual size 92 carat unmounted black diamond

I'm thinking gearshift knob, cane topper, maybe club knob! Got any other ideas?

20 posted on 02/06/2017 12:37:20 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Tell you the truth, I got a little teary-eyed looking at those things. I have an idea. Don’t give it to me because I would be hypnotized staring at it and not eat for a month.


22 posted on 02/06/2017 1:01:51 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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