"the path to knowledge is full of torture" T-shirt material here, buddy! 🤣 so damn accurate too.

Imperfectly cut or not, it is a beautiful stone as is although it does lack some "sparkle". I can hardly wait to see what you can do to improve it.

Great title! And thanks for telling the hard truth about jewelry restoration and repair... laser welders only kinda helped there. And your cutting efforts? You're going to have all the work you'll ever need.

Oh damn Peter you whipped out the spakUN spakUN! 🤣

I think that stone is gorgeous in the ring.

On the other hand, you could have the pav at the proper angles and remove the excess depth by concave/fantasy cutting the tip. Wouldn't look as classical but it could fix the crap out of that window.

I think I would have tried to remove part of the setting to narrow the width. It might be possible to do this w/o interrupting the pattern noticeably, but if not, an extra amount could be removed and a vertical interruption piece inserted to disguise the seam.

I know I'm getting off the subject of cutting a fish eye stone, but i think this will be fun for you. Try to find a nice chunk af clear quartz with a single thick Rutile or Black Tourmaline cristal inclusion and cut a Round Brilliant with the inclusion going from the culet to the center of the table. I like using a 9-main brilliant.

I love mine and it almost identical. It’s filigree all through the setting and a beautiful blue topaz. My grandmother brought it for me. But I do believe mine is thicker. The ring does sit high on the finger

Wow Peter, I can’t believe it’s been a year since you started Lapidary work. I can’t agree with you more on that stone; the window is where the beauty of the light rejected comes into play. Get it wrong and the potential of the stone is ruined. Another great share my friend. Rog. 😀👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Blue topaz is my birthstone, so I’ll gladly take that imperfect ring off your hands. I’ll try not to constantly gaze at the dreadful window.

Looks like an ideal situation for a deep-bodied, blood-red pyrope! ... something that would benefit from a shallower cut. But if youz just gotsta have dah topaz - maybe some thin, parallel, frosted pavilion facets to break-up the windowing? No matter the choice, your enthusiasm and charisma will overcome any deficiencies that gawdawful ring might dish out!

And you are now part of this gems story....

I don't cut faceted stones. But why not give to more of a belly add 3-4 step cut facets into the pavilion? Lack of mtrl orig cut? Or would it wash out color?

What happens if a pavilion is cut shallow but not polished, while the crown and table are cut and polished normally? I don't think we'd expect the sparkle-sparkle of a sufficiently deep pavilion, but would it help at all with color? From the outside, an unpolished stone is undersaturated. Grayish. Pale. But viewed from the top, and with most of the incoming light coming from the top as well, could a rough pavilion keep the light inside the gem longer, boosting color saturation rather than hindering it? If it causes more diffuse internal reflections, the darker aspects of the sparkle might be lost, registering a baseline cloudy glow that, from a distance, could resemble a stone with lots of inclusions. Which, I'm beginning to learn, is not quite the end of the world.

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Try Rutile. Hope your pockets are deep enough for a large enough, clean enough piece.

no that stone isnt perfect but ITS STILL PRETTY!

Lol, I know what I’m going to suggest is an abomination but I’ll still going to say it: put a coating of silver on the back of the topaz to create the illusion of total internal refraction then. 😂

Why not choose an opaque stone or a nice cabochon?

Put that bandana back bro.. the light slipping off of your smooth bald head is sparkling like an oval shaped light colored Tsavorite ..

These topaz are very very cheap - semi stones they are - I can get them kilos ha ha