i think someone recently inquired about this subject but I can't remember the topic name or any of the reponses. Can someone link it for me?

TIA

http://www.betterthandiamond.com/discussion/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=423982

Caramish listed a few in the middle of the first page.

Thanks for the link, Kareberry. Those are my favourite US gemcutters.

Here's a list of some of my favourite gemstone sites:

1. The Natural Sapphire Company-expensive, but you get great stones and settings-US company, native cut stones.
2. Simply Sapphires-also great quality sapphires, rubies, tanzanite, and I've even seen some good quality chrysoberyl on this site. US company, native cut stones.
3. The Gem Trader-Excellent unusual stones, US based, very good gemcutting a mix of US and native cut gems.
4. Wild Fish Gems-Excellent native cut untreated stones. Mr. Bristol has impeccable reputation in the gem industry. Thai based?
6. Palagems-Excellent reputation in gem industry. Wonderful native cut stones. Thai based? Order gems through jeweler.
7. AJS-Very good native cut stones, reputable seller.
8. Multicolour-Good native stones, large inventory, reputable seller
9. American-Thai Trading Company-This seller doesn't have a large inventory, but his gemstones are very good native cut gems. Lots of mali garnets, red flash sphene, spinel, other unusual stones

Oky dokey, that's my short list...

Those are all good places! I bought a gorgeous sapphire from Simply Sapphires so I have to highly recommend them.

We just got a blue sapphire called a scissor cut. Before now, I had seen a scissor cut sapphire but I'm really liking the pattern. (I'm just the webmistress and not the gemologist or gemostone picker.)

I have to say that whenever I decide I like one shape, another gemstone comes along in a completely different shape that knocks my socks off. I rather like the longitude of the rectangle. What shapes do you guys like the most?

We have some gorgeous sapphires but you have to look a little bit. It is right under our diamond search engine and it says
"Fine Gem Collection"

Really well cut stones.

This one is a favorite of mine a 3.64 ct. oval.

I would have to vote for http://www.gemselect.com as well. They post rather good photos and occasionally video clips of the actual cut stone they are advertising. They have a wonderful search tool as well. :-)

Don't forget www.precisiongem.com and www.customgemstones.com , and www.gemfix.com of course.

i have been buying stones unofficially for about 7 yrs & almost every stone has been purchased from thailand. any issues i had with a stone have been addresssed to my satisfaction with usually the only loss was in the return shipping & even that has been corrected in my favor for the last several years. this is why i recomend going thru ebay for most of my buys-my appraisers seem to verify this by the overal values of the pendents i have built-steve...

Be very careful when buying off Ebay. Every stone I have ever bought there has been awful!! Obviously there are many good gem dealers that sell on Ebay, but you have to be very discriminating, or at least get a recommendation.