Posted on 02/04/2022 12:48:50 PM PST by Red Badger
Yes, inclusions, pits, and other flaws in the diamond which detract from it’s value. Black diamonds are slightly heavier and a tiny slight bit harder than other color diamonds. Only a very fractional percentage though. Heavier due to the inclusions and pollution that gives them the color. Harder is another question that I have not seen any research to explain why.
They also burn (yes, diamonds will burn) at a very slightly lower temperature than other diamonds… likely because of the inclusions and higher hydrogen content.
Give him time. The rewards are certainly much better.
Maybe he could hit it with a rock
Thank you for your interesting and informative posts as well as those beautiful images of your craft.
It looks like a hunk of black glass.
I didn’t make them, I designed them. I hired a skilled jeweler to make them from my drawings and the stones I supplied from my collection. Phil at AK Jewelers did the crafting. He took my designs and ran with them. I have made jewelry years ago, but not up to this level of skill. I took one class.
Even so....I’m especially intrigued by that tension mount.
That’s pretty neat.
Tension mounting is pretty risky for a 6.5 carat stone… we tested it extensively before we decided it would hold. Usually it’s not used for anything larger than a 1-2carat stone, but the triple prong approach was robust enough.
We tried a straight tension mount for my 16.5 carat stone, but it wouldn’t stay tight. We had to add the prongs to keep it in the mount. I was not pleased about my straight clean lines being broken up by the prongs, but I’d have had to go down to a stiffer gold content (say 10 karat) and even that would have been iffy. I did not want to risk losing the stone. Even so, the prongs need to be tightened every three months or so, if I wear it daily.
Spectacular.
I bid $5.
Thanks
I had had a 91.89 carat black diamond just slightly smaller (1/16th inch) than the 121 carat one pictured (Cubed Square law makes a big difference in weight to size) which got stolen by a guy who claimed he had a buyer who was very interested in it. He asked to take it to show it to him and left some property of about equivalent value with me. He never came back and the property he left turned out to be “stolen”, i.e. borrowed from a friend who he had never bothered to return it to.
I’m still looking for him, so is his erstwhile ‘friend’ because of the things missing from inside the ‘borrowed’ property. The police claimed it was a civil matter and refused to open a fraud case, because he left a “bond.”
The tort itself is beyond the statute of limitations on the thefts, but I have some friends who have volunteered to teach him the errors of his ways… they are affiliated with a small motorcycle club which has the initials of HA.
Neutron stars and black holes are what happens. It is the rebound from the collaspe that causes the explosion. The stuff in the center stays where it is. There easily could have been a carbon layer , however , that produced the black diamonds.
Does it come with instructions DO NOT PLACE NEAR OPEN FLAME.
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden..........
Sure! a really large one!...............
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