Repairing a pair of green Tourmaline
I say repairing a 'pair' because, when 1 is chipped, if it requires making the stone smaller, the other stone also needs to be trimmed by an amount that they will still be a 'pair' when they are finished.
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Pair of green Tourmaline with one chipped stone
When you click on the photo you will see that the stone on the right is chipped.
A chip on the crown
You can see the good sized chip on the left end of the stone.
As you can also see, this stone has a checkerboard style of facet pattern with diamond shaped facets.
When getting the chip out, I will need to match this pattern so that it looks like the stone was never chipped.
A chip on the pavilion
You can see that the stone also has a chip on the pavilion on the same end of the stone.
We also need to match the facet pattern of the pavilion when repairing the stone.
This does not require re-faceting the entire pavilion in this case. We only work on a few facets strategically in order to keep the weight loss to a minimum.
The repair is finished
You can see that the stone now looks like it was never chipped.
I measured this stone and then trimmed the other stone just a bit so that the 2 stones matched when I was finished.
The finished pair of green Tourmaline
You can see that they are now a pair again.
They are beautiful stones!
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Denton Anderson,
Gemologist & Gem Cutter
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Graduate Gemologist, GIA, GG
Over 20 years of experience.
