Recent content by Anjo

When I have wanted custom jewellery pieces made I have gone to Jewellery making and Jewellery design schools and to ordinary high street and bespoke jewellers - it really depends how valuable the gem is and how much money you have. Students like the chance to make pieces for you and will...

Being the cynic that I am I brought a piece (a ring) to see whether it was any good - actually was very impressed and it was suitably sparkly and has some colour play. Though having said that I wish that a couple of Gems presenters would stop saying their resident gemologist would struggle to...

just caught this link - interesting as I have been saying for a while that if Gems were not careful they would turn into a "live" equivalent of a certain online auction site and I am now fairly certain that at least one and possibly two of their suppliers now sell on that certain online auction...

There's been a little bit of a fuss on the Gems facebook page with a couple of people complaining that they can't price pledge on items they brought on Gems now being sold on TGGC as they're apparently separate channels. Seems rather contradictory when you find that if you buy stuff on Gems and...

Didn't watch - as am finding Gems pretty mediocre at the moment - but Idar-Oberstein is a well known gem cutting and trading centre and has a history of jewellery making. Like many of these places thought to go back to roman times but basically think the place has been a gem trading centre for...

New studio was up and running by 8 o clock:coffee:

am with you on the naming of gemstones - when they do that I immediately mistrust them - The Tucson Green Fluorite was presumably swept up by Gems at the Tucson international gem fair, I have a vague recollection the chinese were flooding the fair with the stuff. As for Cuamba garnet - last...

and the answer on their Facebook page is "the clearance does mean that we are clearing for space however some items will be at a sale price but some may be just for clearance of stock."

and just so Gems can't say it was the only piece - solitaire tourmaline ring was sold this evening by Steve - in the sale for £20 more than I brought it several months ago. Additionally I've decided to have a look at their "Garnet across the World Collection" which I have seen sold in the...

I was wondering this myself - having seen a couple of pieces go to prices that I had brought them for/seen them sold for previously. Watching Steve though he seems now to be making a point of saying that pieces match his cost price, that it's x amount lower than it has ever sold for, that the...

if something is flash plated my understanding is that just enough is used to give the item a uniform colour. Personal experience is that flash plating doesn't survive normal wear and tear for to long. ......... just another indicator to me that Gems is well on the way DOWN the slippery slope -...

The problem for me is that if I keep having to check out items to ensure that I actually get them, my bank stops the card because over frequent use in a short time span on one site triggers a suspicious activity alert. so that's gonna be really helpful on something like a Glenn Lehrer special -...

If you are on Facebook you could always try logging your question with the Gems TV Helpers (http://www.facebook.com/Gems.TV.Helpers). Only active Monday to Friday - It seems to be pretty good page, maybe because they put their more experience staff on here. From my experience when they give a...

Copied from the Gems TV page on facebook "The general theme of comments are about the colour and the amount of the screen the graphic use. Changing graphics for the channel takes quite a long time to plan and develop. The current graphics have been in production for about 2 months. This is due...

tried - is there a maximum image size? the pics I have seem far to large and I can't find any guidance on how big an image may be!! presumably I have to save images as thumbnails and then upload any hints let me know and I'll try again in a couple of days :up: