Not much else to say. Aside from numerous education ventures and degrees, certs, diplomas hanging on the wall, between Jamey & Myself, there are a couple walls full, lol, including quite a few Dean's List Awards to Jamey and a few from myself. I still have 4 more classes to finish before I become a formerly taught Gemologist and graduate. Jamey already is and only has 1.5 classes to finish until he has his education completely renewed and upto date. While not necessary to do so, we feel it is best to continuously learn, learn, and more learn in the study of Gemology, because there is so much happening daily, you will never be able to complete a course and be a competent or proficient Gemologist unless you continue your education on a daily basis informally, and a refresher atleast every year or two.

We have a good solid lab here for testing and Identification purposes as well as cutting and polishing here and have spent quite a bit of money just on the Lab equipment (not including gemstone samples and education costs) so we can properly identify Gemstones:

•Custom Ocean Optics S2000 USB UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
•High End 3.5-95x Magnification w/ Darkfield Illumination
•Diffraction Grating Spectrometer
•Polariscope
•Dichroscope
•Refractometer
•Reflectivity Meter
•Darkfield Loupe
•Chelsea Filter
•Specific Gravity Unit
•Special Scales
•Flat Lap 8"
•Custom Opal Cutting Machine 4" Lap
•6" Grinder
•6 & 8" Polishers
•6" trim saw
•10" Slab Saw
•8" flat lap
•Poly-Metric, Inc. Scintillator 8" Faceting Machine
•We use 8" Batt, Darkside, DarkWing, Cab, Star, and Corian Laps
•We use Voodoo Polish in 2K, 3K, 14K, and 50K grits
•We use BattSticks in Cerium Oxide & Aluminum Oxide as well as ZAM for polishes
•Graves Spool Polisher
•Highland Park 10" saw, 8" two wheel + Polisher Lapidary Unit

We even tie our own Pearls and we even use French Wire too!

Our main object is to bring you the best possible Gemstones & Jewelry at the best possible prices! We want to keep our customers 110% satisfied! I know it is impossible to make all customers happy, but we will strive to try and make most of them happy! We start out by not even bothering to sell shabby products! We do NOT purchase from Drop Shippers!!

Almost all of our pieces are hand done by either Me or my husband! Very seldom do we ever sell anything that isn't; unless we got a super deal on something to good to pass up.

We also only use authentic natural gemstones mined from the earth in our fine pieces. We very seldom ever deal with CZ or Lab Created Stones, but if we do we ALWAYS clearly state that is what they are so there are no mistakes! We will only sell you the same quality that we ourselves would buy and wear!
We have even started phasing out buying already cut stones and are concentrating on cutting and polishing our own cabochons as well as faceting our own gemstones in order to bring you even better prices, top notch custom USA cut & polishes & faceting, as well as even higher quality gemstones!
We also don't play any games with Gemstone Treatments! If we know what they are we list them!! If we don't know, we will list Unknown and then put a possibility in parentheses to be on the safe side. We try to supply you with the best and most accurate information about our products while staying HONEST! We follow all FTC Guidelines created for the Jewelry & Gemstone Industry. We also try to stick with gemstones and rough materials purchased from the miners instead of through middlemen so that we can assure we are not buying materials gotten via child or slave labor. Not to mention we try to stick with rough materials and finished stones that are gotten with the least amount of damage to the Earth, these materials are often found alluvial in stream or river beds, banks, and sandbars. This of course is not always possible however, but we do try to make most of our purchases this way.

On our higher end single stones when purchased via a BIN will even come with a Cert. of Authenticity. Our Jewelry will come with the same when the BIN price is taken.

When buying from us you also have the security of dealing with a seller who has a full Brick & Mortar Storefront as well! We are not just an internet dealer, but have a legit storefront in our local community.

Be sure to check out ISG as well. They have an excellent set of Forums, not to mention you can get an excellent education for a very reasonable price. Robert is a very stand up and well educated and knowledgeable individual.

You can visit our Homepage here Gems By Jennifer.

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