Over the years I have been working on perfecting a round design. I always found that the SRB (Standard Round Brilliant) design with 58 facets was good, but still had a lot of extinction and not that much life. My Jua round is the results of many trials and refinements, and I think it works really well, producing a stone with a lot of brilliance and scintillation. These two new stones this week are both cut in this design, with the angles slightly modified for each stones refractive index. The garnet, having a higher refractive index than the tanzanite has slightly shallower angles on the pavilion.

This first stone is one I bought a few years ago in Tanzania. It is a Color Change Garnet, but one with out a real strong color change, but much brighter than most with a strong change. In incandescent light the stone has a cherry red color and very strong saturation.



This next stone is a natural blue, un-heated Tanzanite. I find the natural blue stones cut very pretty stones, and a nice addition to a collection.

Tags: Tanzanite, Color Change Garnet