The JADE thread!

[Junkenpo]

j3ntan, I collect to wear, but I also place a couple of bangles in wooden stands in the house for feng shui purposes. For example, years ago, I bought a lovely untreated bangle during a live auction in Myanmar (it was 3 AM here) but I did not pay careful attention to the WEIGHT of the thick and lovely bangle. It weighs 90 grams! It is too heavy to wear after 8 or 10 hours... It is now on display, lol. Learned my lesson!

If you start a Facebook group, I will join it.

I would love to see this bangle! My favorite bangles are my fat princess bangles.

 

[megababe]

So happy with my new friends, Bamboo and Chameleon, from Li Hong Jade.

 

[megababe]

Csorry, couldn't resist another shot of Bamboo's vivid green and Chameleon's deep blue....

 

[Cyanide Rose]

Good Day Jadies Beautiful pieces! I haven’t posted in a while but my jade addiction is still strong lol. I love Jadeite and have been purchasing wish list pieces but nephrite is my obsession I love the soothing feel and the creaminess that nephrite has. Anywho, I have been wearing this bangle lately and just wanted to share. It’s a pale lavender, which is hard to capture. It’s purple color is very visible at night. Have a blessed day Jadies and Enjoy the rest of your weekend ☺️

 

[Junkenpo]

Awwww.... that's true. I guess simply saying where you bought it with receipt from said company isn't good enough these days. No one wants to do a FB group though? It seems there's a group for everything. Maybe I'll start one up if only to show off goodies and inspire others into the world of jade. I just got out of another tiresome hobby of plants, being that I have chronic pain, and a newly diagnosed health condition, I don't have the time to care for a gajillion plants. My insta handle is: butdoyouhoya (hoya being the specific type of plant I loved and collected) there are tons of groups for hoyas and I loved sharing! I'm going to start a group and whomever wants to join can join! I also did professional photography before and I'm finding jade especially hard to photograph! Especially when wearing. So, since starting my jade bangle collecting a month ago, I've already amassed 6+ bangles! But I have one on the way coming to me that cost 4x's what I've spent total so far (it'll get here tomorrow!!!!!)...I'm so worried in spending that much that I won't love it, or won't wear it because it's so spendy... Do you all collect to wear or collect as an investment?

Jade can be hard to photograph, especially lavender and reds, though I am only a cell phone photographer, haha. What you see here on the thread is pretty much the extent of my jade pics. I know Kathyjade has an insta and so does jadebynikolai and lihong. I have a samsung phone that I really dislike when it comes to pictures...it always seems to darken my photos or if there are bright colors, it always looks saturated.

When I first started collecting, I bought a lot of bangles - I think I have around 30 - though Iʻm rarely tempted by bangles now. I have moved toward smaller jade jewelry - earrings, bracelets, necklaces.. mostly beaded items, a lot of vintage pre-loved stuff. I have way more stuff than I can wear at one time. I do try to keep everything in rotation, but I do have items that I just bring out to look at instead of wearing.

 

[CraveJade]

Jade can be hard to photograph, especially lavender and reds, though I am only a cell phone photographer, haha. What you see here on the thread is pretty much the extent of my jade pics. I know Kathyjade has an insta and so does jadebynikolai and lihong. I have a samsung phone that I really dislike when it comes to pictures...it always seems to darken my photos or if there are bright colors, it always looks saturated.

When I first started collecting, I bought a lot of bangles - I think I have around 30 - though Iʻm rarely tempted by bangles now. I have moved toward smaller jade jewelry - earrings, bracelets, necklaces.. mostly beaded items, a lot of vintage pre-loved stuff. I have way more stuff than I can wear at one time. I do try to keep everything in rotation, but I do have items that I just bring out to look at instead of wearing.

Wow 30 bangles? I just started truly collecting so I have to ask where your main bangle source was when you were buying. I have picked up the jade enthusiasm which took a nose dive many years ago because I bought many things from 1 seller who turned out not to be good news. I have 2 bangles now, a nephrite from Jade Mine and a green from Mason Kay that was purchased many years ago. I want my collection to be bangle heavy as well. My plan is to collect to where but truthfully,there will be a select few bangles that will be of the utmost importance to me, and I do want to splurge on those.

 

[JadedJae]

Hello Jadies!! Been years since i last posted (2017, to be exact - glad to still see familiar names like JKP, Cyanide Rose and berniechocolate! ) and kinda took a hiatus from jadeite for a long while.. however am back with a bad jadeite fever since end of last year and have not been able to stop LOL..

Just wanted to share some of my pieces that i mainly buy to collect / wear occasionally when the mood comes up thanks for letting me share and hope to continue seeing lovely pieces that everyone has been raking in!

Side note to those Jadies based in Singapore - anyone has done buffing (抛光) locally and can recommend shops? I used to go Chinatown but the guy i went to closed down :/ have some beads that have uneven edges/ slight roughness where the opening is and its making me nervous that the beads keep rubbing against each other! TIA

 

[Cool Breeze]

Hello Jadies!! Been years since i last posted (2017, to be exact - glad to still see familiar names like JKP, Cyanide Rose and berniechocolate! ) and kinda took a hiatus from jadeite for a long while.. however am back with a bad jadeite fever since end of last year and have not been able to stop LOL..

Just wanted to share some of my pieces that i mainly buy to collect / wear occasionally when the mood comes up thanks for letting me share and hope to continue seeing lovely pieces that everyone has been raking in!

Side note to those Jadies based in Singapore - anyone has done buffing (抛光) locally and can recommend shops? I used to go Chinatown but the guy i went to closed down :/ have some beads that have uneven edges/ slight roughness where the opening is and its making me nervous that the beads keep rubbing against each other! TIA
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Wow! What a magnificent collection! Thank you for posting.

 

[CareerMother]

So happy with my new friends, Bamboo and Chameleon, from Li Hong Jade.

Thank you for sharing Bamboo and Chameleon, they are both fabulous! We are bangle sisters and there are several other bangle sisters on this forum with the bluish green chameleon bangles from Li-Hong too. I took a break from collecting but saw last week that they now have the chameleons in a thicker princess round, impossible to resist….

 

[CareerMother]

Wow 30 bangles? I just started truly collecting so I have to ask where your main bangle source was when you were buying. I have picked up the jade enthusiasm which took a nose dive many years ago because I bought many things from 1 seller who turned out not to be good news. I have 2 bangles now, a nephrite from Jade Mine and a green from Mason Kay that was purchased many years ago. I want my collection to be bangle heavy as well. My plan is to collect to where but truthfully,there will be a select few bangles that will be of the utmost importance to me, and I do want to splurge on those.

I started collecting in March last year and tell myself that I am restricted to bangles only (although a couple of matching earrings have sneaked their way in). I bought 10 bangles from Husk but 9 were for gifts so that was OK. My weakness are the chameleon bluish green bangles from Li-Hong, they are pricey but all come with an NGI certificate which is comforting. Having read all the posts in this forum and learned a lot, my next foray will be to Chinatown in search of nephrite princess rounds…

As a newbie, I am actually restricting my visits to the places recommended by helpful Jadies in the “Reputable Jade Sellers” thread, do check it out, it is a great resource!

 

[megababe]

Thank you for sharing Bamboo and Chameleon, they are both fabulous! We are bangle sisters and there are several other bangle sisters on this forum with the bluish green chameleon bangles from Li-Hong too. I took a break from collecting but saw last week that they now have the chameleons in a thicker princess round, impossible to resist….

The photos I saw here started me pining for the bluish green bangles. Hehe.

 

[SmokieDragon]

Hello Jadies!! Been years since i last posted (2017, to be exact - glad to still see familiar names like JKP, Cyanide Rose and berniechocolate! ) and kinda took a hiatus from jadeite for a long while.. however am back with a bad jadeite fever since end of last year and have not been able to stop LOL..

Just wanted to share some of my pieces that i mainly buy to collect / wear occasionally when the mood comes up thanks for letting me share and hope to continue seeing lovely pieces that everyone has been raking in!

Side note to those Jadies based in Singapore - anyone has done buffing (抛光) locally and can recommend shops? I used to go Chinatown but the guy i went to closed down :/ have some beads that have uneven edges/ slight roughness where the opening is and its making me nervous that the beads keep rubbing against each other! TIA
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OMG!!! What a fabulous collection!

 

[Junkenpo]

Wow 30 bangles? I just started truly collecting so I have to ask where your main bangle source was when you were buying. I have picked up the jade enthusiasm which took a nose dive many years ago because I bought many things from 1 seller who turned out not to be good news. I have 2 bangles now, a nephrite from Jade Mine and a green from Mason Kay that was purchased many years ago. I want my collection to be bangle heavy as well. My plan is to collect to where but truthfully,there will be a select few bangles that will be of the utmost importance to me, and I do want to splurge on those.

I think I started posting and collecting in the jade threads in 2013. I want to say I got most of my bangles in the first couple of years, and then I slowed way down. I was only comfortable spending on relatively inexpensive bangles because I wasnʻt sure of sizing and determining grade. For bangles, I started with Ultimate Jadeite, and then an etsy seller who has since stopped selling, and once I was kind of confident, I took chances on random sellers here and there if they had decent return policies and no one here had bad experiences. I have only one really expensive bangle of all of them, and the rest of my collection is pretty much vintage earrings and beaded bits.

Here's a few reposts of my bangles from very early on in my collecting.

And one from almost a year ago... jade is super fickle when it comes to lighting.

Hello Jadies!! Been years since i last posted (2017, to be exact - glad to still see familiar names like JKP, Cyanide Rose and berniechocolate! ) and kinda took a hiatus from jadeite for a long while.. however am back with a bad jadeite fever since end of last year and have not been able to stop LOL..

Just wanted to share some of my pieces that i mainly buy to collect / wear occasionally when the mood comes up thanks for letting me share and hope to continue seeing lovely pieces that everyone has been raking in!

Side note to those Jadies based in Singapore - anyone has done buffing (抛光) locally and can recommend shops? I used to go Chinatown but the guy i went to closed down :/ have some beads that have uneven edges/ slight roughness where the opening is and its making me nervous that the beads keep rubbing against each other! TIA

Such a gorgeous selection! I'm especially envious of those glassy bangles and that round cabochon ring! So pretty!

 

[rileygirl]

 

[Ashekyu]

Hi everyone! I found this piece at a local thrift shop. I've noticed they have loads of real stones there (and are unaware), so I picked this up. Its very heavy, ICE cold even after keeping it on... whether its Jade or not, its at the very least a real stone.

I'm curious what other stone this could be if it isnt jade? Hardness tests I've done with other stones/steel tells me it has a hardness of at least 5.5, and is not above 7. Curious what everyone's thoughts are!