I have just a very few pieces of these Mahenge spinels left, and this is one of the nicest. The stone is loop clean, fantastic color, strong florence and a perfect cut. This long oval design produces a very bright stone with no bow tie or extinction that is so common in most commercial ovals.

Tags: Spinel - Mahenge

I don't cut many matched pairs, as they are difficult to get two stones the same color without buying very large parcels. When I saw this tsavorite garnet over the summer in Tanzania, it was a crazy shape, that would need to be cut into two stones, but the finest color tsavorite I had seen. The stones don't look it in the picture, but they are exactly matched color wise and size, and are a beautiful chrome green with blue, more intense than the picture and a bit richer deeper color. These would make an absolutely stunning pair of earrings.



This was my first gemstone picture with the new camera, while it does photograph green better, the image can't capture the intense color of these.

Tags: Tsavorite Garnet

I was going through my cut stones, finding one to ship, when I ran across a few Citrine that I noticed were not up on the site. So here they are, and marked pretty low.



Also I do have one new cut stone tonight, this one is a 1.56 blue Montana Sapphire.



You may or may not have noticed that my Blog service got switched, and now it works a bit better. You can leave comments on each page and can also subscribe to the RSS feed, which will automatically send you notifications of any new additions to the blog page. All new stones are introduced here on the blog along with a link to the page where the details are shown.

Tags: Citrine, Montana Sapphire

Two new stones today. This first one is a Rubellite Tourmaline cut in a cushion just over 2 cts. Very nice color, better saturation than you see in the picture.




This next stone is a Spinel from the Morogoro region of Tanzania, cut in a SRB design.

Tags: Spinel, Rubellite Tourmaline

It's been a while without any new stones, but I've been busy doing some commissioned work, and adopting a new rescue puppy mill dog.
So welcome Cali. Cali has just been rescued 2 weeks ago from a Lancaster Co. puppy mill. She is very frightened and not used to people or living in a house at all. She has spent 2 years in a chicken wire cage outside, freezing in the winter. Below is a picture of her right after being saved from the mill. Here hair was all matted and knotted, so bad it was hard for her to walk or see.



My plan is to create a new site documenting Cali's journey from the awful life in a puppy mill, to her new pampered life, and to remind people not to support puppy mills. 99% of all puppies in pet stores come from puppy mills. Every time you buy a pet store dog you are perpetuating the mills.

Check back for more on Cali, and new stones to come.

Cali having her first snack night watching TV. All her mats have been trimmed off, and she is cleaned up.

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