JEWELRY TRADER BLOG

Different people prefer different type of lighting when observe gems. Most of gemstone dealers prefer sunlight when examine gemstones. A problem occurs when purchasing gemstone at jewelry fair because of different type of lighting in decorating the booth affect the way buyers look at the stone.

I personally made one mistake when purchase rubies during the show. After I purchased I looked at the stones again in my office, The color of stones turned out to be quite different from what I saw at the...

One problem for making a traditional tennis bracelet is the calibration size of square gemstone or diamond. The most famous stone size is 2 mm. The problem that often occurs in this type of bracelet is that it set by using channel setting so the stones have to be exact size for the design unlike prong set that can varies a bit (from my experience about plus or minus 0.2 mm).

One time, I need to purchase blue sapphires for tennis bracelet order at the size of 2 mm. Before I was going to purchase t...

It may sound too basic to advice jewelry traders to always bring their own loupe whenever they are going to buy gemstones. However, the impact can be huge if you forget to do this basic method.

Quite a while ago, my supplier shows me one Ceylon blue sapphire stone size about 3 carats with obvious crack under the pavilion when observe under the loupe. I personally believe he know about gemstone buying better than me, but I asked him how can you make this type of mistake before you purchase this st...