High-quality gemstone faceting is the way of the future
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:03 pm
This is most certainly true. Those native cuts look pathetic, and I can't begin to tell you how often people in the trade have told me they had a fine gemstone that they had to send out for re-cutting to make it look its best, because of shoddy native cutting geared toward maximizing the size of the stone, at the expense of its beauty, which adds more cost to the gem that the seller has to recoup at the time of sale.
High-quality gemstone faceting is the way of the future
Posted December 01, 2017 | By Victor Tuzlukov
"The commercial realities of gem-cutting means there is little emphasis placed on high-quality gemstone faceting. Victor Tuzlukov discusses why this is detrimental to the industry and its future.
Today there are not many well-faceted gemstones on the market. Aiming to obtain as great a carat yield as possible from an irregular piece of rough, using various methods to squeeze one of several classic cuts out of the gemstone while bypassing visible inclusions at the expense of symmetry, a gem-cutter aims to give a gemstone a finished look.
Since each carat is real money, gem-cutters and sellers shut their eyes to optical defects. As a result, most gemstones that leave the hands of these gem-cutters have a ‘window’ in which any objects in a gemstone become visible. The area around the window looks dark, hence it reflects the surroundings, and the angle of the side facets near the girdle is too big. Such an approach to gem-cutting has become the norm.
This is curious because the main task of a gem-cutter is not to make a gemstone more beautiful with a desire to save its weight but to make it ... "
http://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article ... the-future
*I corrected a typo in the third paragraph from moey, to money*
High-quality gemstone faceting is the way of the future
Posted December 01, 2017 | By Victor Tuzlukov
"The commercial realities of gem-cutting means there is little emphasis placed on high-quality gemstone faceting. Victor Tuzlukov discusses why this is detrimental to the industry and its future.
Today there are not many well-faceted gemstones on the market. Aiming to obtain as great a carat yield as possible from an irregular piece of rough, using various methods to squeeze one of several classic cuts out of the gemstone while bypassing visible inclusions at the expense of symmetry, a gem-cutter aims to give a gemstone a finished look.
Since each carat is real money, gem-cutters and sellers shut their eyes to optical defects. As a result, most gemstones that leave the hands of these gem-cutters have a ‘window’ in which any objects in a gemstone become visible. The area around the window looks dark, hence it reflects the surroundings, and the angle of the side facets near the girdle is too big. Such an approach to gem-cutting has become the norm.
This is curious because the main task of a gem-cutter is not to make a gemstone more beautiful with a desire to save its weight but to make it ... "
http://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article ... the-future
*I corrected a typo in the third paragraph from moey, to money*