This shield cut brings the best out in a peach tourmaline. The cuts nature is to be flashy and bright. This coupled this with a medium light tone and eye clean peach, makes a great stone. This is about as small as I cut shield cuts and I am glad I put the extra work into it. It would make a great piece of jewelery in white gold, but not yellow gold, because I think it would be lost in a yellow gold setting. The shield cut weighs 1.01 carats.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
