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I'm just a guy who likes weed and jewelry. No, I don't work in the industry. When I got in to jewelry I was advised to go and read up before spending my money. There's plenty of information about this available publicly.

Flux was revolutionized by Chatham and their process uses a seed. Its well known that growing from a seed creates a far better ruby/sapphire as its closer to a natural one and its relatively cheap. Your gonna trash tier jewels if you use no seed. Also, the process you described is the same thing...

It is well documented but the name seems to mislead people. Chatham details the flux process on their website. You use a naturally mined slice of crystal placed in a crucible chamber filled with liquids that later become the crystal/facilitate its growth at 1000C for 10 months. During the...

Opaque quartz is quartz microcrytals fused together, its the same thing. Also the rubies/sapphire aren't grown with flux. Flux is used when treating the gems to heal cracks.

I'm not in to the ruby/sapphire hype either tbh. I might try one just to see what its like. Maybe a SiC insert too, but I'm happy with quartz atm.

You literally get trace amounts in the order of microns left within the crack. You can't remove that in a laboratory so I would be extremely skeptical of you being remove it by dabbing off it. If you could you'd be inhaling ruby anyway. Which would lead to lung disease regardless. We're kinda...

Looks like you stopped reading right there. "Any flux glass present on the surface can be dissolved away with acid. The synthetic ruby in the crack is unaffected by the acid, as is the ruby as a whole." Also, "The Mong Hsu ruby treatment is not a fracture filling, but a permanent healing of the...

I don't think you understand the use of flux as much as you think you do. Here's some reading: http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/flux_healing_mong_hsu_ruby.htm Flux is used for treating the gem not growing it. 95% of the corundum gems today have huge cracks when grown and the flux can be used to make...

Making sapphire via flux is more expensive and gets you closer to what the crystal is in nature. So it is more likely a higher quality stone then lower

Did they say it was ccells specifically with lead? Jesus. I thought it was clone carts but now you've got me scared of this cart lol. If you want to avoid lead stick with white sapphire. It doesn't have any metal to give it color so it should be pure sapphire.

They all literally use the same manufacturer to make their inserts this lady Jessica Wen is the sales rep. They post their convos with her. Their either all low grade or all high grade basically lol. Its up to us to find out lol

You should watch the rest of his stories after that lol. His next 5 slides was him calling them out

I hear that. You can easily spend $100+ on equipment you end up hating when it comes to concentrates.

The only company greek has had a problem with is constant gems. They sell inserts from the same manufacturer but constant charges 3x the price or more. At this point though every insert manufacturer from adapt tech to fadespace has said something about them, so greek's not alone on that. There...

You should see the people on the glass heads reddit. You can't even post on there if it's china.

There's definitely a market for it. The people who shop with adapt tech would probably jump ship in a heartbeat for something American made. Especially those people who jump down ppls throats for using china glass.

I would wait for a sale personally lol. I would never pay full price to be honest.

You wouldn't have a choice but to pay more. It's expensive to manufacture in the US. They would have to be priced in the adapt tech range or higher for the person to make a good profit if made in the US due added costs associated with material analysis, labor, and quality control. Fadespace is a...

Hopefully all the insert sellers start getting larger buckets

Nobody else as far as I know of. But I take pretty big dabs so I prefer 30mm even if im stuck using a quartz insert