Lisa Elser

“In my work as a gem cutter selling to the trade I buy rough gems from all over the world. My home lab was small, and it can be not easy to make some separations in rough, especially when the sellers aren’t open to my polishing a window. My GemmoRaman already paid for itself when I was able to confirm a couple of questionable rough parcels and return a few more that were not as represented. More than this, though, my own comfort in buying from artisanal miners who often don’t know what they have, and in selling my work on has been dramatically increased. The GemmoRaman is so fast and easy to use that I now just test every gem I buy instead of just sampling from the parcels.”