{"id":15,"date":"2007-04-04T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/laser-inscription-food-for-thought\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T08:08:45","slug":"laser-inscription-food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/laser-inscription-food-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Inscription: Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a lot of commotion surrounding laser inscription in the past few months, it is important to step back and have a think about the effect and effectiveness of laser inscription.
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  1. A laser, whether “hot” or “cold” can damage a diamond through operator or machine error. If the diamond is damaged, then it isn’t a pretty situation for anyone involved. Why then would a lab knowingly use machines that would damage the diamond they are certifying?<\/li>\n
  2. Never read a laser inscription to find out the quality or grade of a diamond. An H\/SI2 stone may well be inscribed D\/IF. Does that make the inscriber unethical? No – just like sellers of guns aren’t murderers.<\/li>\n
  3. If a diamond is laser inscribed after certification, then technically, the certificate is invalid, and should<\/em> be re-certified to check for any damage.<\/li>\n
  4. Laser inscription doesn’t guarantee against a jeweller or merchant switching stones. However, consider this anecdote:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Two men are out in the bush, one wearing hiking boots and one wearing running shoes. The man wearing running shoes says to the man wearing boots:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    “These shoes protect me from bears.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    “How?” the man wearing hiking boots replied.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    “Well, when a bear comes, I’ll be able to outrun you!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The same goes for laser inscription. Given that most diamonds are not<\/strong> laser inscribed, it would be a lot easier for a jeweller to switch a non-laser inscribed stone than a laser inscribed stone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With a lot of commotion surrounding laser inscription in the past few months, it is important to step back and have a think about the effect and effectiveness of laser inscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buying-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}