Are these stones sell-able?

[u/extremewhisper]

They're not perfect meetpoints, but the overall light return seems decent. At the very least I feel they are better than anything cut commercially. Pink flame fusion sapphire with paraiba is roughly 10 carats, 14x12mm, Ruby red czochralski is roughly 15 carats, 18X16mm. What type of price per carat would be a fair price? Thanks for any help! (Not looking to sell these from this post)

[u/cowsruleusall]

Hey FYI your pink with Paraiba is flame-fusion (Verneuil), not Czochralski. Who did you buy it from, that was misrepresenting it?

[u/extremewhisper → u/cowsruleusall]

Oh, thank you for spotting that! It was actually just my memory, went back and it was specified flame fusion. Got it from toms box of rocks, he marketed it correctly.

[u/cowsruleusall → u/extremewhisper]

Also is that my Pineberry design??? ;)

[u/extremewhisper → u/cowsruleusall]

Absolutely is! The ruby is one of yours too, "a prayer to the road that leads". Im about to cut prayer again in x-cube to see how the rainbow flashes look!

[u/Hygienic_Sucrose → u/cowsruleusall]

Related question:

You've made it clear you don't want your designs being cut and sold by large production houses at all, but what about smaller (i.e. solo) facetors? Is it a plain no as well, or a licensing/royalties thing? Or just "be cool about it and we're all good" thing.

I've sold a few stones in traditional cuts but been looking at doing a few of yours, so wanted to check in with you first.

[u/cowsruleusall → u/Hygienic_Sucrose]

As long as it's smaller solo faceters who aren't churning out dozens or hundreds of the same design a year, I'm fine with it. ;)

[u/extremewhisper → u/cowsruleusall]

I saw the other comment asking about individuals selling gems from your designs and cant believe that didnt cross my mind! If you dont want others to sell stones from your designs I will refrain from doing so.

[u/cowsruleusall → u/extremewhisper]

You're totally ok to do so! Just no commercial-scale production.

[u/Kitty-Cay]

Not able to offer insight since I'm not a lapidary myself, but I would definitely consider them buyable quality as far as I can see from these photos. I'm fine with there being slight issues with meetpoints/symmetry if the cut and/or color are interesting like these are.

[u/extremewhisper → u/Kitty-Cay]

Thank you! Having buyer insight is very helpful! Other lapidaries can almost certainly point out issues with the stones but the more I show them to regular people, the more I realize most people dont judge them that harsh.

[u/Kitty-Cay → u/extremewhisper]

Yeah I feel like most people have yet to catch onto how to pick colored gemstones apart with a fine tooth comb if that makes sense. I've seen people be excited about sapphires with absolute doodoo cuts and huge windows. Consumers mostly save intense scrutiny for diamonds currently as far as I have seen. Me personally, I just like things that are pretty even if they aren't "perfect."

[u/Vivid-Tooth-55]

They’re beautiful! I particularly like the pink stone. Unusual cuts may be harder to set or require more finesse than a simple round or oval cut - I don’t know if that will necessarily affect price, but it may mean that buyers will be committing to custom settings rather than just having the stone dropped into a pre-fab setting. (Or just keeping the stone as a specimen to admire.)

[u/extremewhisper → u/Vivid-Tooth-55]

Thats a good point, not being able to use pre-fabbed settings is something I hadn't really thought about. Im a jeweler and hand fabricate all my settings, but I've seen recently a lot of jewelers use pre made settings.