Diamond cutters can help you evaluate the cost and benefit of cutting a polishing a diamond.
If you take a raw stone to a diamond cutter, the cutter may collaborate with you as a business partner, to cut and polish the diamond based on the combination of the raw stone that you contribute and the skill the cutter contributes to the venture. Or simply charge you a fee.
If you own a stone that you want to re-cut for some reason, you can ask a qualified diamond cutter whom you trust to give you an estimate of the fee and of the value of the resulting, re-cut diamond.
When a diamond is cut, the dust is collected and used to polish diamonds.
Diamonds are the hardest mineral known, so only diamond dust can polish a diamond and only diamond-tipped tools can cut a diamond.
Diamond dust is released, since a diamond is 100% carbon. Diamond dust is used industrially to cut and polish diamonds and other materials.
Diamond fragments separated from a diamond stone during the cutting process are collected and used to cut and polish other diamonds.
A diamond polishing wheel used by a diamond cutter uses diamonds to polish and hone the gem-quality diamond's cut.
A diamond that has been graded by GIA in three areas: for excellent cut, polish and symmetry. They are elite diamonds
To remove visible scratches from a diamond, a diamond cutter can either re-cut the stone, or polish out the scratches if they are not deep.
No, the cuts on a diamond are very precise. When mined and unprocessed diamonds are cloudy looking. The cut and polish bring out the color and brilliance of the stone.
A piece of Diamond that has not been cut and is able to be cut with a chisel.
Cut it out or soak it in nail polish remover. This may cause damage to the hair, depending on how much treatment is needed. Generally, the hair should recover well.
Diamonds are mined, washed, sorted and sold to diamond cutters. Cutters plan the cut, cut the stone, polish it and sell it to people who use gemstones in diamond jewelery. You can read more detail about these steps, below.
A gem-quality diamond is already a gemstone, before it is cut, based on its colour and its clarity. The diamond cutter's goal is to preserve as much of the raw stone's carat weight as possible while achieving the highest quality cut possible. Typically, about 60% of the raw stone's carat weight is lost in the cutting process. Diamond cutters use other diamonds to cut and polish raw diamond stones. As well, sometimes lasers are also used.