Are You Buying A Laser Drilled Diamond?

Do you know if you are buying a Laser Drilled diamond? Do you know what to look for when looking at your diamond under a loop? What is a Laser Drilled Diamond? These diamonds are better know  as Enhanced Diamonds, and if you are looking at diamonds the place that you are buying them from is suppose to let you know this fact before you buy. For the record we do not carry these diamonds,

Laser Drilling Dealers drill holes to burn out black carbon spots About 1 in 3 diamonds in this country is laser drilled, according to Fred Cuellar, a leading diamond expert. Dealers use lasers to drill a tiny hole into the depths of a diamond to burn and evaporate large black inclusions to make them disappear. The trouble with this little trick is that laser drilling can make the diamond a little more fragile to breaking with a good knock. Most dealers trade laser-drilled stones for much less.

Solution: Ask your jeweler if the stone has been laser drilled. We suggest always insisting on a certificate, since a certificate from any respected gemological lab will clearly note that a stone has been laser drilled. Some labs will not even accept diamonds for grading if they have been drilled. Source: How To Buy A Diamond

There is a way that you can quickly determine if the stone you are looking at is laser drilled while you are looking at the stone under the loop you will see pink lines, running through the stone, this is a tell, tell sign that the stone has been laser drilled, and if the jeweler did not state that fact up front you should be very careful.

If you still decide that you want to go ahead, and buy a laser drilled stone, some things you should keep in mind, they should cost you much less, get some pricing on enhanced stones before you buy, also if your ring has to be sized not all jewelry’s can work with these stones. When the heat hits the ring the filling will melt out of the diamond leaving you with holes. We have seen this with a few stones that have come into the store not good at all.  If you take your jewelry some place to have it worked on, and your stone is laser drilled make sure you let them know this, and ask them how they treat repairs, on jewelery with laser drilled stones. Some people go for these stones because they can get larger stones for a cheap price, I myself do not recommend these stones.

The CIBJO and government agencies such as the United States Federal Trade Commission explicitly require the disclosure of most diamond treatments at the time of sale. Some treatments, particularly those applied to clarity, remain highly controversial within the industry — this arises from the traditional notion that diamond holds a unique or “sacred” place among the gemstones, and should not be treated too radically, if for no other reason than a fear of damaging consumer confidence. Source: Wikipedia

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