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Traditional methods of diamond identification:-
On Sep 28, 3:50 pm, Peter W. Rowe
wrote: So, one should rather go with comments from people like "Peter W. Rowe" and others on this. Thanks. But better, educate yourself. Take courses in gemology, or do your reading NOT in the old traditional books, which are out of date and often incorrect. Rather, do your reading in current, up to date, respected books on gemology and gem testing. I am researching old methods to study how people actually arrived at the current ones in stages. Who knows what could be hidden out there, I could land up with some methods which could rather bring down the overall production cost. Again, what Peter is trying to point out is right, some times it can be real dangerous trying things. So, readers please use your own minds, be real careful.... Diamonds are very very precious. |
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Traditional methods of diamond identification:-
On Sep 29, 12:43=A0pm, Ganesh wrote:
On Sep 28, 3:50 pm, Peter W. Rowe wrote: So, one should rather go with comments from people like "Peter W. Rowe" and others on this. Thanks. But better, educate yourself. Take courses in gemology, or do your reading NOT in the old traditional books, which are out of date and often incorrect. Rather, do your reading in current, up to date, respected books on gemology and gem testing. I am researching old methods to study how people actually arrived at the current ones in stages. Who knows what could be hidden out there, I could land up with some methods which could rather bring down the overall production cost. Again, what Peter is trying to point out is right, some times it can be real dangerous trying things. So, readers please use your own minds, be real careful.... Diamonds are very very precious. If you are interested in gemology (gemmology) there are some simple instruments you might make yourself and some others are inexpensive. Also, there is a somewhat non-traditional approach called either 'Hodgkinson method' (after Alan Hodgkinson and with help from William Hanneman IIRC), or 'Visual Optics'. While not exhaustive, the approach is inexpensive for the most part. also, there are on-line resources and organizations like www.gemsociety.org and www.yourgemologist.com that could be helpful. Also, perhaps some investigation in scholarships for GIA or FGA study would be fruitful. Carl |
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