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<p>[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 9845481, member: 15376"]<p style="text-align: center">Okay so my gem tester arrived, trying to learn how to use it. Estimating each stone is under 0.5c and its under 30C today, I set the tester to 6. Fingers on the metal plate, and voila:</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Cone Diamond:</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]492583[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Cone 'emerald':</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]492582[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Box diamonds:</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]492580[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]492581[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Box 'glass':</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]492579[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Box 'rubies?:</p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]492578[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">So my 10 minutes of google searching is making me think the 3-4 red lights are larger diamonds than the 2 light ones, and that the ruby being 1 red light means it is in fact ruby? The glass and the green stone only go up by one, so not sapphire/precious stone or emerald?</p> <p style="text-align: center">The glass goes up by two if I press a little bit harder.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">The only graph I could find was this one, but not sure if it matters that it doesn't show it based on settings? Or if its saying low from where you've set it...</p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/3037/7919/files/gemtest-pgi-chart-large.jpg?v=1629216164" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/3037/7919/files/gemtest-pgi-chart-large.jpg?v=1629216164" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/3037/7919/files/gemtest-pgi-chart-large.jpg?v=1629216164</a></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RachelW, post: 9845481, member: 15376"][CENTER]Okay so my gem tester arrived, trying to learn how to use it. Estimating each stone is under 0.5c and its under 30C today, I set the tester to 6. Fingers on the metal plate, and voila: Cone Diamond: [ATTACH=full]492583[/ATTACH] Cone 'emerald': [ATTACH=full]492582[/ATTACH] Box diamonds: [ATTACH=full]492580[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]492581[/ATTACH] Box 'glass': [ATTACH=full]492579[/ATTACH] Box 'rubies?: [ATTACH=full]492578[/ATTACH] So my 10 minutes of google searching is making me think the 3-4 red lights are larger diamonds than the 2 light ones, and that the ruby being 1 red light means it is in fact ruby? The glass and the green stone only go up by one, so not sapphire/precious stone or emerald? The glass goes up by two if I press a little bit harder. The only graph I could find was this one, but not sure if it matters that it doesn't show it based on settings? Or if its saying low from where you've set it... [URL]https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0537/3037/7919/files/gemtest-pgi-chart-large.jpg?v=1629216164[/URL][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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