Diamond Cut

flatter cut, but the diamond is still highly faceted. Marquise cut diamonds comes in different length-to-width ratios.

A modern round cut brilliant diamond stone has 58 facets, or 57 if the tiny bottom facet, the culet, is not counted. A exception is the princess cut, which is a square diamond with pointed corners.

Diamond cut simply refers to how well a diamond is cut to achieve maximum carat size and brilliance, means the glittering fire and sparkles popping from the diamond when you turn your diamond in the light.

Four factors are actually involved in a diamond cut, proportion, finish, symmetry and polish.

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Diamond cutting is a real art. Imaging to create this unique piece of a a fabulous princess cut diamond out of a semi transparent stone which looks like nothing before and afterwards all this glitter and fire of light.

Diamond cutting was probably first performed on the Indian subcontinent by some creative people. European traveler to India got the basic idea from the Indians but it was not until around the sixteenth century that anything sophisticated was done probably because no effective material existed to to cut and polish a diamond.

Early attempts to cut diamonds were called rose cuts because they somehow followed the pattern of a rose. That means triangular shaped facets cut in a pattern on the top of the diamond. The bottom of the diamond was left flat for mounting.

Only in the 20th century the diamond cutting technology started to be available reflecting light in various. In the 21th century computer modeling is often used to help determine the cut of a diamond. Modern diamond cutting is a symbiosis of art and science.

In the Diamond mine they are just a simple shiny little rock, 98 percent of the brilliance of modern cut diamonds comes from the cut not by the clarity, means the cut of the diamond is very important. The cut or the creation of diamonds as a piece of jewelry includes 3 factors.

First is the proportions of the diamond cuts relative to the whole diamond stone. How is the polishing of a diamond and third the symmetry of the diamonds facets. This three parameter determine how the light is reflected out of the cut diamond.

There is a certain international terminology used around diamonds. Its the table, crown, crown angle, girdle, pavilion, pavilion depth plus pavilion angle. The top most flat part is called the table. The largest diameter of the diamond is called the girdle. This top part of the diamond from the girdle up to the table is the crown and crown height. The crown angle means the depth of this part of the diamond and the angle from the girdle up to the table.

The part of the diamond not visible when you looking down at a diamond is the pavilion, this is from the girdle down to the bottom of the diamond, the bottom of the diamond is usually pointed. The distance from the girdle down to this point is called the pavilion depth and the angle from the girdle edge to that point is the pavilion angle.

The diamond is finally graded as good, very good, excellent. Another parameter important to a excellent diamond cut is the symmetry of a diamond, this is the shape, size and the proportions of the facets.

Some other important diamond parameter are, have all facets a consistent shape? Do the points of one facet align perfect with the next facet? Are the lines of the cuts straight or ? Are the facets flat? These more or less define the value of a modern cut diamond.

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