Now granted, I'm a horrible person, but I would find it virtually impossible to keep my big mouth shut. I would never be able to go out for a drink with that person, because then it would all come pouring out after the first beer!

Well done you for keeping it to yourself - willpower queen!

DJ - what you got planned for that lovely EC? I take it this is the one you inherited? (If it was mine, I'd go for a baguette halo ring or pendant. Want to trade it for something of mine??? I love ECs best of all! )

Jen

That sounds like a wonderful plan. I'd like one like that too. Or I could borrow yours, right??

So would you have the EC set east west and lined up with asschers the same width? Or have the EC North South, more like a 3 stone?

Jen

DJ-I love the idea of an E-W set EC, I've been drooling over this one lately

I love this E/W EC.  I think it would make an incredible RHR.

The EW with baguettes, only asschers instead of the baguettes, right?

Oh yes, I think you might find you could live with that! It would look like a band carved straight out of diamond.

That's going to rock!

Jen

Add me to the list of those who love that E-W EC, GL!

(I love abbreviations too, looks like, OK?)

I have a story like Piglette's. 

It makes me so mad when people get screwed over!   There is this jewelry store in town that is the "nice" jewelry store.  It has high end stuff, but people here act like it is the Smithsonian or something.  The reason they do is because the owner is such a lyer that they believe these rediculous lies that he tells.  People will pay anything he asks because he makes up these dramatic tales about each piece.  First of all he tells people that HE PERSONALLY hand makes each piece.  This is a joke because my Mom is friends with all of the jewelers in town and they laugh behind his back at how he cannot even set a stone in a stock setting and commissions out his work.  He never explains to people the difference between a lost wax model ring and a stock setting.  All of his rings come from stock settings...and not even good ones.   


So here is the story of how my friend was a victim of this jeweler. 
All she wanted from the time she could remember was an emerald cut stone.  It could either be a sapphire or a diamond as long as it was an EC.  Her family had dealt with this jeweler so she sent her soon-to-be fiance to the store and told them to take care of him.  He went in and told them what she wanted and what his budget was.  They told him that a diamond was out of the question and that they would search for an emerald cut sapphire, but that it would cost because they were so rare.  Months past and the jeweler produced nothing.  When the boyfriend would ask, the jeweler would tell him that these things took time and that they were searching the WORLD for this emerald cut sapphire.  Fianally the jeweler said that it was impossible to find an emerald cut sapphire and that he would have to settle for the oval cut sapphire that he happened to have in the back.  The boyfriend did not know any better so he said "OK. " 

The jeweler then told him that the oval would be nice with some half moons.  Then he told him that half moons were rare and he would have to "go to Europe and get them especially cut" for the ring.  Are you guys getting a picture of the BS that is getting spread here???

I see my friend after she gets the ring and she does not seem 100% satisfied.  I ask her what is wrong and she launches into a million excuses as to why she has an oval instead of the EC she wanted and how rare it was to have half moons and how the jeweler HIMSELF hand made the ring.  GET THIS...then at the end she tells me how she will never get the EC because this ring was so rare and hard to make that they will be paying on it the rest of their lives.  THE BOYFRIEND WAS A DOCTOR!!! Can you only imagine what they charged him for that RING!   

It is a beautiful ring...not "I searched the world" for beautiful but pretty.   That must have been his gig for a while because I complemented another girl on her ring and she said "thanks, jeweler whats-his-name went to Europe to hand pick this stone."  I want to say "Are you on crack?"  PLEASE!   No one has turned him in yet.  Someone should turn him in.  

Another bad story that happened to my family.  My great grandfather was the manager of a major department store and they had a gemologist that would literally go all over the world for the rough stones and bring them back and have them cut in NY.  My great grand father wanted to get a gem quality ruby.  The buyer brought it back and the story goes that they had the team at Harry Winston cut the stone and set it in a custom made setting.  I guess they did that then.  It was passed down and my grandmore had it.  She gave it to be sized to this criminal "jeweler" who said that he cracked the stone and for insurance purposes he had the throw the ring away so they would not fault in our care of the ring.  They later found out that she was selling everything and replacing things with synthetics.  My grandmother was not as a aggressive as I might have been.  The guy is in Jail now.  He has a similar story where he said he ruined a persons southsea pearls.  I would have killed him over that as well.  

These stories are appalling to say the least.  It is one thing to be fed a line of BS but then to STEAL someones special piece or hierloom is beyond words!!!   GRRR!

What about a picture Piglette?
  There was a time when all ladies had what they called carbuncles.  They are beautiful almadine garnets usually cut in cabochon.  I love them.  I may be wrong but my guess is that is what your stone is, I think it is unusual to cut rubies that way (??) They are more of a red wine red if you know what I mean.

Joia
 

They do cut rubies into cabochons but not normally the top grade stones.  Those are most certainly faceted.  Piglette, is it completely free of inclusions?  How would you describe the color?  A pic would be great but I'll watch for a new thread if you prefer.......heck, you might have already started one!  Off to check.

OMG!!! That's terrible!