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Before you make that special purchase, there is much you need to know to get the best diamond you can for a fair price. After reading these articles you will have begun your training as a “Diamond Jedi.”

  • Buying Diamonds View 31 articles
    • Top Ten Complaints a Woman Has About Her Engagement Ring
    • A Healthy Diamond
    • The Vivid White Diamond®
    • Pillow Tops
    • Harry Winston Engagement Rings vs. Tiffany & Co. Engagment Rings
    • Color Grading
    • Clarity Grading
    • Stop Buying and Selling Blood Diamonds
    • “Certified”: A Dirty Word in Today’s Market
    • The Health of Your Jeweler
    • Don’t Force It! (Pre Fab Isn't Fab)
    • Bonded Diamonds: Diamonds for the "Conceptual Age"
    • Show Me The Love: Falling Diamond Prices Equals Big Opportunity!
    • Independent Jewelry Appraisers
    • The Great Diamond Crash
    • The Truth Behind BLING: Science or Gimmic
    • Who Will Help Me Now?
    • An Evening at Sothebys
    • Imposters III
    • Imposters Too
    • The Imposters
    • Is it the Real Thing?
    • How to Sell a Diamond
    • Fred’s B.E.S.T. Rules
    • Fred’s Alphabet Rules
    • Disposable Jewelry
    • Diamond Value Work Sheet
    • Buying Shy
    • Buying Diamonds on the Internet
    • Bonded Jewelers
    • Who's Your Jeweler? & How They Categorize You
  • Designers and Trends View 8 articles
    • Amosphere™
    • Angels with Attitudes
    • My Goodies
    • Moments
    • Battle of The Bling II
    • The Ring Has A Truth To It
    • 2009 Inaugural Jewelry Collection
    • Diamond Value Work Sheet
  • Inclusions & Blemishes View 2 articles
    • Clarity Spotting
    • Rough and Ready
  • Outside the Box View 11 articles
    • Spectral Signatures, Blockchains, and Immortality
    • Is Your Jewelry Safe? - A Cautionary Tale
    • Jewelry Every Woman Should Own
    • Van Cleef & Arpels: What You Need to Know
    • Wedding Traditions
    • Top Ten Signs
    • What Kind of Customer Are You?
    • Getting Into Shape
    • Cell Mate or Soul Mate?
    • DeBeerios'Revolving Door - A Fairy Tale?
    • Debating the Desire for a Diamond
  • Reference View 31 articles
    • How To Clean A Diamond
    • Dangerous Metals: The Truth About Tungsten and Cobalt Wedding Bands
    • For Now or Forever
    • Diamond mining is not forever, SAfrica learns
    • Palladium VP (The New Palldium)
    • Prostituting Green
    • Dirty Diamonds
    • Parts of the Stone
    • Myths About Diamonds 2
    • Myths About Diamonds 1
    • GIA's Bribery Scandal
    • GIA Goes to Court
    • GIA Classifications
    • Exposé 1: The Rock Talks
    • Diamond Terms
    • Diamond Slang
    • 61%
    • 12 Little Facts
    • The Flanders
    • Apollo Has Landed?
    • The New Synthetic Diamonds
    • A Platinum Primer
    • Bodyjewels
    • From Ziamond's Vault
    • Certifiable
    • Colored Diamonds
    • Artificial Lighting
    • Platinum Doping II
    • Platinum Doping
    • Debeers Reaches $250mil
    • Palladium is not your Pal
  • Shapes View 1 articles
    • Diamond Shapes
  • Solitaires, Semi-mounts and Wedding Bands View 12 articles
    • Titanium Finds a Home – Again
    • New Arrivals
    • The Upperclassmen
    • Men's Wedding Bands 3
    • Men's Wedding Bands 2
    • Men's Wedding Bands
    • Ladies Diamond Wedding Bands
    • Beyond the Tiffany - PART IV
    • Beyond the Tiffany - PART III
    • Beyond the Tiffany - PART II
    • Beyond the Tiffany
    • Intro to Solitaires
  • The 4 C's View 8 articles
    • Color Typing
    • True Weight
    • Clarity Spotting
    • Color Grading Scale
    • Clarity Grading Scale
    • Carat Weight
    • How to Buy a Diamond: The 4 C’s
    • How Much Is A 1Ct VS1, G?
  • Understanding the Diamond Trade View 26 articles
    • False Promise
    • The 'Blood Diamond' Resurfaces
    • De Beers to Reduce Diamond Supply 50% on U.S. Slump
    • Blood Diamonds
    • Building Noah’s Ark & Joining Lucy
    • The Blue Nile Blues
    • What’s in a Name?
    • Warping
    • Tricks of the Trade
    • See No Evil
    • Royal Asscher Diamond
    • Monarch Diamond
    • Inscription Deception
    • High Definition Diamonds, Fact or Fiction?
    • Ice in Ice
    • Fall of the Tablet of Truth
    • Fine Print
    • Chapter Twenty-Two: The Great Overhang
    • Caveat Emptor
    • Most Wanted
    • Potato Chips and Rough Diamonds?
    • GIA’s Boyajian resigns, questions about grading lab scandal linger
    • State of the Union
    • Diamond futures may be on their way back as exchange-traded instruments, group says
    • Buying Shy
    • Diamond Industry Debates Merits of De Beers Anti-Trust Settlement
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Before you buy a diamond, know fact from fiction

How do you get the best diamond for the best value? How do you tell if a diamond engagement ring is real or a cubic zirconia? How do you know if you can trust a loose diamonds seller? The Diamond Guy®, Fred Cuellar, answers those questions and more for thousands of people. Fred is an internationally-known diamond and jewelry expert with over 20 years of experience in the jewelry trade. This website is a companion to Fred’s best-selling book 6th ed. “How to Buy a Diamond.”

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