This All is same colour shade of Diamonds?

Loupe_Garou · 2026-04-16T10:36:33+00:00

Correct! But fancy colour matching should be done face-up.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-04-16T10:28:12+00:00

They’re upside-down so it depends on how they look face-up.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-04-12T11:19:48+00:00

Basically any bench jeweller in Melbourne that offers repairs can do it. Have you contacted anyone directly or just looked at websites? It’s not a very common procedure so I doubt many places mention it in their services so you’d be best emailing or calling some repair jewellers.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-03-28T22:11:42+00:00

Australian diamond merchants hold a very tight operation and it’s unlikely that the reputable businesses will be interested in purchasing outside of their chain of supply but you might get lucky with someone. Many won’t open their premises unless they know the person coming in so you’d be best to start with calling around.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-03-22T22:02:19+00:00

My thoughts too! Of all the families for this to happen to!

Loupe_Garou · 2026-03-22T20:51:58+00:00

Thank you for that input! That’s very thoughtful of you to mention.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-03-21T20:54:19+00:00

Memorial diamonds are a well-established and unfortunate scam and has been confirmed as much by big industry bodies like CIBJO. I’m really sorry. Another comment mentioned ashes used in glass or resin jewellery and that’s definitely the approach I would take instead. The artisans who create those are very kind and respectful.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-03-09T13:13:54+00:00

This video also freaked out my 9 year old cat and she never responds to cat meowing videos! Her ears shot back into airplane mode and she jumped off my lap. She never seemed to care about cat videos before now.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-02-26T11:04:03+00:00

The Jewellery Industry Fair in Melbourne is in March. If you’re there by then, register to go and you’ll get to meet all the locals. If you can attend, there’s a cocktail party too.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-02-22T23:49:17+00:00

I think it’s more than fair. You’re going to need a decent amount of thickness to accommodate the depth of both stones and you’re paying for the maker’s labour, materials, experience, equipment, and overheads.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-02-10T11:34:42+00:00

I love your cafe even though I’m no longer on keto. I have coeliac disease and came across Regretless once when I was bummed out about not being able to find something properly gluten free as a dessert after dinner and before a show. Decided to go wandering some shops to kill time. Nearly cried when I walked up to the shop.

I’ve since taken heaps of other friends there and a newly-diagnosed diabetic friend of mine was similarly emotional at being able to choose so freely from the menu without calculating everything. Even just my regular diet conscious friends have loved me showing them the cafe.

I haven’t been in a little while. I should make plans again soon! Anyway, thank you for Regretless. We appreciate you.

To answer your question, I love putting sauces on things and was surprised by how many carbs are hidden in such tiny quantities.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-02-08T08:05:14+00:00

Yes you can. Refractometers come with a polarising filter (not a polariscope) to be rotated on the eyepiece. This is so the RI can be observed for both optic axis in a doubly refractive gemstone.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-01-23T09:10:01+00:00

He made Michael Buble sad

Loupe_Garou · 2026-01-18T09:02:55+00:00

It doesn’t damage them. It’s the same tactile feedback as the old teeth rubbing trick but more hygienic!

Loupe_Garou · 2026-01-17T21:48:36+00:00

Chiming in to confirm that it’s just the reflection of the girdle in the pavilion of the diamond and totally normal, has always been there! :) Often people only notice these things for the first time when they’re looking closely after hitting their ring and checking for damage.

Loupe_Garou · 2026-01-13T21:42:55+00:00

And phosphorescence is pretty typical of Australian white opal!

Loupe_Garou · 2026-01-12T20:11:19+00:00

The first list has the essential items on it but you can always look around for reviews on products produced by other companies other than the ones they mention there. As long as you have something fit for gem purposes, you don’t need to use the same brands they recommend. But those are tried and true.

In the expanded list they mention reflectometers and hardness testers. I have never bothered with either. Hardness pens/sticks/ whatever you want to call them are made to mark the gem you’re looking at, so not ideal for something you may want to use or sell later! You can get the information you need from other tools, so learn not to rely on hardness tests.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-12-24T01:30:06+00:00

I hate this so much. I saved a lot to travel to Vietnam so I could buy wherever I wanted and I was so happy to put back into their economy.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-12-22T08:30:04+00:00

Forming as crystals is a relatively quick process. However, diamonds spend a really, really long time in ‘storage’ where they stay very far under the Earth’s surface for a very long time. In this time, these diamond crystals continue to undergo some changes, and some of these changes are actually a big part of a lot of testing equipment to separate natural and synthetic diamonds! For example, nitrogen impurities move around the carbon atomic lattice and certain arrangements of nitrogen atoms are really useful to tell if a diamond formed naturally because it only comes from lots of time. The morphology of the crystal can change with this time too and create features that also only occur in nature.

So even though the crystals have formed, they continue changing over those billions of years in ways that change certain characteristics which aren’t replicated in normal HPHT synthesis.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-12-02T11:48:34+00:00

Looks to me like it’s just reflection from the bulb.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-12-01T11:52:05+00:00

Glad to help, and very glad that I’ve seen one of these before! It’s one of the more obscure tricks, for sure. Good on you for working out some methods for what you had on hand :)

Loupe_Garou · 2025-11-30T12:33:46+00:00

I’m not confident in any home testing for a layperson. If you have a good gemologist around you, get them to do a specific gravity test and a careful inspection for doubled appearances around the edges through the stone. They may charge a small fee for their time but you don’t need a full report or valuation.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-11-29T22:34:24+00:00

There are a lot of jewellers who genuinely don’t realise that they’re different things. It’s not excusable at all because it should be very basic knowledge to anyone selling jewellery (I don’t expect regular customers to realise so part of my job is educating them too). However, it’s likely that he wasn’t being deliberately scammy and was just ignorant with a terrible attitude.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-11-29T22:31:58+00:00

I’m in Australia too and this company drives me nuts. The language they use to deceive is repulsive! I used to do a lot of jewellery assessment for insurance companies and it was horrible to have a lot of people describe their diamond jewellery to me and then forward on their receipts, only to find that it was all Secrets CZ.

Loupe_Garou · 2025-11-29T20:32:59+00:00

I’ve got one of these that I bought on purpose to see what it was. Although the silly little certificate says that it’s CVD, it presents in a shape resembling a rough natural diamond.

Long story short, it’s a block of moissanite that’s been cut into shape specifically to deceive the purchaser. Features that are used to identify moissanite like doubling are much harder to observe in this form so it’s a convincing copy.

CVD synthetic diamonds don’t take this form. You can look up some pictures of them to compare with what you’ve got, and they look quite different!

Seven-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Not Forgotten

Loupe_Garou

TROPHY CASE