Got a diamond tester for $40. I have diamonds.:smile::cam:

[tabdog]

I got rained out this morning and stopped by the pawn shop. The guy that
owns it is real nice and always backs up anything he sells to me.

I was looking around and asked about gold testing machines. He said he
didn't have any, but he did have a diamond tester and he would sell it to
me for $40. It was his old tester, and he has a new one. He demonstrated
it, and that was all it took.

He said he would get me the same gold testing solution that he used before
he got his electronic tester, and show me how to use it. Gonna be $20.

I already have scales, and now I will have more of an idea of the value of my
finds.

I have about 90 small diamonds and one 1/5 ct diamond and two more just
a little smaller than 1/5 ct. Don't have any real idea about the value of these
diamonds and their settings.

I did discover that a ring I thought was fake has a small, real diamond. So it
may be silver or white gold. If it's white gold that will make 6 gold rings

I am better off than I was.

HH,

 

[Pap]

Yea, I got fooled twice. Both times it was for the good. It's really nice when it goes in that direction. A few years ago on the Outer Banks my son found a watch and I told him it wasn't worth anything. Had a cracked crystal and he liked the watch and took it to his jeweler. The crystal cost $60.00 and when he questioned the jeweler he found out the watch was worth $700.00.
Now you will know for certain on that next ring you're gonna find!
Pap

 

[BarberBill]

Very cool!

 

[rmptr]

Tabdog, have you checked the bay listings for diamonds to see what stones, or small lots are going for?

Probably better to sell a ring complete, if nice enough, just advertised on craigslist or put out a display case at swap meet once and a while. But you are probably not even selling them... yet!

Have you got a jewelers loupe?
Interesting how they are graded by color, clarity, occlusion and cut.
I'm sure you'd find it educational.
I think they grade them with a 10X, but good to look at them with a 30X loupe.

HH

 

[GRAY GHOST]

n/t

 

[tabdog]

I am slowly learning. Don't know much yet.

I have priced a few of my finds and figured

out that if I sell them to a jeweler I will loose

most of the value. That's one reason I still have

most of what I have found. I plan to accumulate

more while I learn more about what I am doing.

I want to try and make closer to what the true

value is.

I have a 1/5 ct that is from a high quality jewelry

company.

I don't want to get taken on that one. You can

see the brilliance of the stone with your eye ball.

I want to get my gold total to increase before I

make any decisions about trying to cash in on

that also.

We will see what tomorrow brings.

HH,

 

[TonyTX(MXT)]

Tab... I've never seen one of those! Kinda cool looking HH TonyTX

 

[tab-nabit]

Wow that's neat - and for the cost, sounds like a deal.
I know nothing about any kind of gemstone testers - I see no screen, lights, meters - how in the world does that thing work?

I haven't been in a pawn shop for many many years - don't even know if there are any in this area. I guess ya never know when a detector may show up at one, or other useful stuff like like what you snagged. Now you can test your own.

 

[Anonymous]

You just a gittin' all kinds of deals. The diamond tester is a fine thing. Brings a sad story to me, though. I found a near-perfect .51 carat diamond ring about 10 years ago at a swimming area. The stone was appraised at 1800.00. My wife had a custom-made ring using this stone. It was valued at 2500.00. Long about that time, we had a "cleaning lady" that decided she wanted to clean out, instead of clean up. She took the ring, a camcorder, the wife's wedding dress???, and some other items. Thank the Lord, she didn't like guns(or metal detectors). Anyway.....I've been trying to find another diamond like it, but can't(and probably won't). Nowadays, it's better to clean one's own house, by the way.........

 

[tabdog]

Hi Tesoronut,

It's a bad feeling to be taken advanatge like that.

Violated! Many of us have bad things happen.

All we can do is protect our nest and try to make

our little world a better place.

HH,

 

[tabdog]

Hay Tab,

Don't know much my self.

My buddy at the pawn shop showed me how test a diamond.

It has a little wire sticking out the end that has a cover you remove to
test a diamond. Turn it on and after it warms up the red light will
glow steady as in the first photo. It says "READY"

You push the wire up against the stone.

If it's a diamond or a moisanite (gem-quality silicon carbide), a green

light will come on for a second or less. Hard to catch with my camera

because the camera and the tester both have a different delay time.

But you can see the green it the other two photos.

From what I was told a moisanite (gem-quality silicon carbide) stone

is very close to a diamond and are worth about $500 per ct.

Now you know all I know about it.

I'm gonna look it up on the web.

HH,