This stall owner was very thoughtful. He got various kinds of tourmalines and put them into various shapes, and every shape was bright and dazzling.
"How many colors of gems are there here?" Mu Ling was a little surprised.
"Thirty-two kinds." The stall owner was a man. Hearing Mu Ling's question, he immediately said.
"More than thirty kinds? That's quite a lot." Han Peacock never thought that someone could collect tourmalines of so many colors in such a short period of time.
Although these tourmalines are too small, the bracelets, necklaces, rings, and some inlaid bracelets made with good color matching are all very beautiful. The most important thing is that the design of this stall owner is novel and eye-catching.
When I arrived, my eyes lit up.
This kind of color matching talent is really amazing, because tourmaline has nearly a hundred colors and is the most colorful among all colored gemstones. A large part of the value of tourmaline depends on the color of tourmaline.
Therefore, being able to highlight the color of tourmaline is a skill. Once this is done, the value of tourmaline will be more easily reflected.
Because color is people’s first feeling for gems, even if ordinary people are attracted to it, their first feeling will be color.
This stall owner is very smart. The colors of the tourmalines he selected are all bright and bright, which makes people feel happy when they look at them.
There are many colors of tourmaline, and it is not easy to do this, so choosing the right tourmaline is very important.
Tourmaline covers various color systems, and each color system has a more detailed classification. Of course, if you add hue and saturation, you will have more choices.
In general, bright, vivid, and moderately light colors have the highest value and are the most popular.
For example, green tourmaline, the most popular is grass green, like a lawn after rain, bringing a fresh and pure natural atmosphere.
The popularity of gray green, dark green or orange green is low, so the value is low.
It is very rare for a small vendor to be able to select so many brightly colored tourmalines, and these tourmalines are still so small, so his patience is also very questionable.
As long as you have patience, know how to persevere, and are smart enough, if such people don't succeed, what kind of people can succeed?
Now Han Kongque is very interested in looking at his appraisal of tourmalines. The tourmalines here are very small, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are crushed. Such tourmalines are troublesome to select, and the processing and design are even more troublesome, so the mines are cheap.
sell.
However, whether it is a gem or crystal, another important factor in judging its value is clarity, that is, the amount of impurities contained in the gem.
Tourmaline is a colored gemstone that is born with a lot of ice cracks inside, and its transparency is poor. However, with slightly better transparency, the ice cracks within the crystal may be exposed.
Some people will complain that the quality of the tourmaline they buy is not good, especially those who like perfect crystals. However, crystals and tourmalines belong to two different grades. If it is difficult to accept tourmaline flaws, you should try to choose crystal.
Tourmaline can never be compared with crystal clear crystals. Ice cracks are a regrettable feature. Therefore, if you choose tourmaline, you have to accept this regret.
Generally speaking, tourmaline with very transparent and pure crystals is a small part cut from a large piece of tourmaline, and is finally used on the ring surface. As for whether it is really flawless, no one can guarantee that some can still be seen by the naked eye.
Impurities such as dust, and some may also contain tiny impurities under a magnifying glass.
The tourmalines on the stall are likely to be the debris left after the tourmaline is broken. In this way, there is a high possibility that the purity of the debris will appear. If you work hard, you can still pick it out.
If Han Kongque was interested in staying, Jin Yao and others would naturally not stop him. Han Kongque took a casual glance and found that his guess was indeed good. The stall owner was indeed very skilled. The tourmalines he selected were of high purity.
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Han Peacock picked up a pendant casually. The chain was made of stainless steel. The pendant below was a drop-shaped gemstone, but this gemstone was pieced together with many turquoise tourmalines.
However, the stall owner was very clever. He cleverly used the characteristics of each piece of tourmaline to completely piece together this drop-shaped tourmaline. The most amazing thing is that there is no trace of splicing.
Han Peacock looked carefully, and he found that the gaps between the joints were all covered up by the stall owner as the edges and corners of the gemstones. Now the piece of spliced tourmaline actually had a unique fire color, and it looked bright and beautiful.
"It's a pity that it's a little thin." Han Peacock said with great regret.
The tourmaline is pieced together, and it is a drop-shaped gemstone pieced together with very small fragments. It is necessary to take care of the curvature of each tourmaline fragment, so in terms of thickness, it is not easy to meet the requirements. Even if the underlay design is made, it cannot
Compared with natural gemstones.
"This is already very good. Both the craftsmanship and the design are very ingenious." Mu Ling looked at the various jewelry on the stall with bright eyes and said with a little envy.
"Don't envy these things. I'll find a master for you and let him teach you, so that you can quickly design works better than these." Jin Yao comforted his wife.
Han Kongque smiled and shook his head. Design is a kind of talent. Of course, hard work is also very important. But if there is no talent, no matter how hard you work, you will not achieve much.
Just like tourmaline, it is a precious resource given to mankind by nature, but it must rely on the dexterous hands and intelligent minds of craftsmen to fully release the gorgeous fire color of tourmaline and the beauty of the crystal.
The cutting method of tourmaline is as varied as the color of tourmaline. The brilliant cutting method of diamond is usually used, which is also the cutting method of diamond. It is cut along the c-axis direction parallel to the top surface of the crystal. It is a completely symmetrical cut. The light passes through the tourmaline and the entire tourmaline is cut.
Tourmaline is crystal clear and has no dark areas.
This stall owner's talent is very good. He can use splicing to perfectly express the fire and color of the slices. He can also make people unable to see the traces of splicing, and only think that they are cut out slices. This kind of craftsmanship has already been
It's considered top notch.
Generally, tourmaline is carved entirely by hand by craftsmen. Because tourmaline itself is relatively brittle, carving tourmaline requires extremely advanced skills.
Or Maitreya Buddha, or dragon, or fish, or gourd, or Ruyi, different carvings are designed according to each rough stone, so each pendant is unique in this world.
Inlaid tourmaline jewelry requires more attention. Not to mention the difficulty of design, the beauty of the metal material used is first, and the second is durability and safety. For example, earrings must be hypoallergenic, and others
There are more requirements for anti-oxidation and anti-fading.
This stall owner is able to inlay such a perfect pendant, and his craftsmanship must be impeccable.
Han Kongque looked at the stall owner and found that his skin color was a bit dark. He was not yellow, but he was not pure white either. He was somewhere in between. His skin color should be bronze. This kind of skin color is almost common in South America.
A mixture of white people and local Indians.
Originally, Han Kongque wanted to ask him if he needed a job, but in the end he did not ask. Instead, he turned to Jin Yao and ordered: "Give him a chance. With such a skill, it should be easy to develop."
"Give him a discount?" Jin Yao asked.
Han Peacock nodded and said: "The price is more favorable, but not too much. It's mainly about policy. If he wants to open a store, we can give him a batch of gems first and then pay later. Of course, we must watch him carefully and not let him take us with him."
The gem ran away."
"I understand. If you encounter such a situation in the future, should you handle it similarly?" Jin Yao said by analogy.
Han Kongque nodded and said: "Yes, we must establish a complete industrial chain quickly. By then, we will really have a firm foothold."
With resources, Han Kongque is even more anxious to understand the importance of deep processing. Simply selling rough gemstones is too low a price, and more importantly, it cannot feed many people at all.
If a complete industrial chain could be formed, with Han Peacock controlling the upstream of the industry, and more people in the downstream relying on him for food, then things would be wonderful.
Just as Han Kongque was calculating how many jobs a jewelry designer like this would bring to his new town, a burst of firecrackers crackled in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Han Peacock was startled and immediately thought of setting off firecrackers instead of engaging in a gunfight.
"There should be a store opening, right?" Jin Yao said.
"Our own business, the seafood restaurant that will open in a few days should be a branch of our Red Mansion Restaurant." Mu Ling said.
With the improvement of Han Peacock's strength, the shares of Red Mansion Restaurant have been redeemed by Han Xing. However, the Red Dragon Resort Hotel has not given up, and has continued to increase capital and expand. Now, whether it is the Red Mansion or the Red Dragon,
All have expanded to the United States.
What opens today is the Red Mansion Restaurant, and deeper into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, there is a hotel with a larger area under construction, that is the Red Dragon Resort Hotel. The scale there is larger, so it will be completed later.
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"Let's go over and have a look." Han Peacock hasn't tasted the delicious food in the Red Mansion Restaurant for a long time. He really doesn't know how far the Red Mansion Restaurant has developed.
The Red Mansion Restaurant in the United States is not completely copied from China, but Americanized, so it is divided into fast food, Western food, Chinese food and seafood.
This place is close to the western coast and quite far away, so naturally it specializes in seafood, and today is the grand opening of the seafood restaurant chain.
Today, many people came, and the hotel's garage was already full of cars. Many cars were still parked in the hotel plaza, and even lined up on the highway.
As the manager of the hotel, Li Xiaowen is very busy today and needs to socialize with many people.
In addition to some local energetic people, there are also some business friends, as well as some seniors, domestic, foreign, local, immigrants, everyone is there, and no one can be offended, so Li Xiaowen is very busy now