Talk:Diamond cutting

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A grading system and automatic grading of cut quality may be found on [1] It is free for anyone to use and does not require specialized knowledge.

Dave Atlas

citation[edit]

Diamond Design, Marcel Tolkowsky. Web edition as edited by Jasper Paulsen. www.folds.net, Seattle, 2001.
Editor's notes 41-45 link to ongoing diamond cut research.

I removed the ref to User: Fplay 04:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

not necessary if....[edit]

It wouldnt be necessary to merge with diamond cut if the content of this page was replaced with information about the diamond cutting industry, its locations, etc.

Comment

The 'diamond' aspects of this page should be merged with the diamond cut article, but the wider techniques of facet cutting are applicable to most transparent lapidary materials and need to have a separate article (which I am working on now.)

Clive Washington

As per Clive - this article can and should stand on its own. I've removed the merge tag and added a link across to diamon cut. Hopefully someone will add good information to this article to complement the others in the series. Kcordina ^Talk 14:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More information on wastage[edit]

It would be nice to have more information comparing previous techniques with modern ones. There's an existing sentence

"Even with modern techniques, the cutting and polishing of a diamond crystal always results in a dramatic loss of weight; rarely is it less than 50%."

which is tagged for a citation. The citation would be useful, but even more useful would be a description of how older techniques differed. What the weight loss was. Maybe even...what if scenarios. E.g. a citation about what would have happened if the Koh-i-noor had been cut with modern techniques? Piano non troppo (talk) 14:24, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A more general description of "cutting" is needed[edit]

It seems to me that the term "cutting" when applied to diamonds is not the same as its use in everyday language. I may cut a loaf of bread and this is very different to cutting a diamond. In the diamond industry "cutting" seems to mostly mean grinding and polishing and I think this needs to be said.194.176.105.153 (talk) 09:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]