I'm not sure if the topic is right in here, but I thought it fits quite good in here. Tough, I'm a beginner but I know more or less what I want to find out. If you like you still can move the Topic.
The second thing: I'm no native English speaker, so I have to say sorry for any mistakes!
My problem or question:
I'm working on a design for a unique ring. I'm happy with the results but there's still a diamond missing for it.
I searched every wholesale website and anything I could find about different cuts. Sure, the usual cuts are expensive... but not that unique according to the amount of cut stones. So I looked quite a while for the more unusual new branded cuts. I had to find out they are so special it's impossible to get them anywhere, at least loose ones.
Now a couple of days ago I found a website where they cut custom shapes. I like the idea very much, but I don't want that much a completely unusual "shape" (they offer e.g. letter shaped stones) just a unique cut according to facets on a "normal" shape like a round stone or a simple polygon.
I already had an idea, found the gemcad software... and failed hopelessly on getting it work on my linux computer. Searching for information on the angles of the facets I found this topic:
So it looks like there are people in here, who know what they're doing! Some good news for me...
So I would like to ask if it makes any sense to develop a new cut. Sure it's possible, just the question is if it would look good without working on it for years (as I read about some new branded cuts), how much and how difficult work this is or even if someone would be able to help me with this.
I think one of the questions will be what a cut I think of, so I try to describe it (if not clear, I would add some drawings later).
I'm thinking of something like the royal asscher cut as a pentagon with two (or more if necessary) extra facets on each corner of the crown and the pavilion to get some star shape look through this.
I hope someone has the knowledge if this idea makes sense and if this is so, if it would look good or if the stone would loose any sparkle due to inappropriate angles and loss of light. I would like to get a mix of sparkling parts in the stone and some clear (star) shape in contrast to that.
I live in Germany. I'm sure a diamond cutter could do this... the question is if it would look good or if it would be a lot of money wasted. I made a quick sketch of my idea (with gimp). Not good, not even symmetrical... just a two minute pic so everyone can imagine more or less what I'm thinking of. Crown on the top, pavilion on the bottom of the pic.
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G_T wrote:
The pentagon in the culet won't be pentagonal but 10 sided based on the diagram. Just FYI. Gerald PS - And of course the facets radiating from the corners will not have straight edges but segmented curves.
Good observation. That is where GemCad or real faceting comes into play as a reality check.
For a start you need a tang with a five fold click system, thats a special order unless you want to cheat by hand and eye or use a copper tail tang. draw a square in a pentagon and two facets are on the corner wings are close to the harder cutting sections of the diamond. Not impossible but not fun thats all im saying. I love a challenge. I cut a pentagonal barion many years ago just for the fun of it. Took three days.
Heres a quick mark up of your design in GemCad. Its different and perhaps not ideally suited for cutting diamonds in, but the scintillation is kind of interesting. The culet tier didn't add to the performance of the design, so I left it out.
Cheers, GR
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