Hi to all
A new P.S. thread spreader here!
If you’ve heard it all before, my apologies, but as much as I dig for old threads, I fail to find anything that quenches my need to understand the basic principals that separate machine and hand cutting techniques of diamonds.
3 months ago, I set out to buy a diamond.
3 months later, I’m glad I didn’t.
I dread to think what I would have purchased back then!
I’ve learnt so much in this time and I must offer many thanks to all that have passed on information through the various forums and mediums of information on the web.
Going back to the question, my confusion is this:-
I hear that diamonds can be cut by machine or my hand.
Being an engineer, I have a feeling that the term “by hand” maybe some what misleading, so I’d like to drop a layman’s analogy in here.
If I chose to sharpen a drill bit on a grinder, I will hold it with my hands. To me this would be hand cut, but possibly someone may choose to class this as “free hand”.
Now if I decide to use a tool that will hold the drill and angle steady, whilst offering it to the grinding disk, I would personally class this as machine cut, but others may think differently.
If I casually threw the drill into a big funnel, went for a cuppa tea, cut my toe nails and returned to find a good-as-new razor sharp drill bit sitting at the other end of the contraption, I’d class this product as an automated machine cut drill bit.
So by this subjective view of cutting, what do you guys in the industry describe and prescribe as hand and machine cut?
And knowing this information, if I was to tell you that I have come to the conclusion that the cut of the diamond is my number 1 priority, simply because I want a performing diamond, is there any real advantage of one method over another? As I see it, the diamond either performs or it don’t. Which ever way we get to this standard shouldn’t matter; accept for maybe the romance of having a skilled craftsman working on your gem.
But then again, being an engineer, as much as I have great admiration for such ever-decreasing craftsmen, I feel that a machine, if designed and used correctly, can consistently achieve more accurate results.
What are the basic options for cutting Diamonds, what are most common and, of course, which option is the most valued and why?
Maybe you think I’m talking out of my a**e. However, I’d still be very, very grateful if anyone out there felt qualified to comment did so.
Thanks in advance.
A new P.S. thread spreader here!
If you’ve heard it all before, my apologies, but as much as I dig for old threads, I fail to find anything that quenches my need to understand the basic principals that separate machine and hand cutting techniques of diamonds.
3 months ago, I set out to buy a diamond.
3 months later, I’m glad I didn’t.
I dread to think what I would have purchased back then!
I’ve learnt so much in this time and I must offer many thanks to all that have passed on information through the various forums and mediums of information on the web.
Going back to the question, my confusion is this:-
I hear that diamonds can be cut by machine or my hand.
Being an engineer, I have a feeling that the term “by hand” maybe some what misleading, so I’d like to drop a layman’s analogy in here.
If I chose to sharpen a drill bit on a grinder, I will hold it with my hands. To me this would be hand cut, but possibly someone may choose to class this as “free hand”.
Now if I decide to use a tool that will hold the drill and angle steady, whilst offering it to the grinding disk, I would personally class this as machine cut, but others may think differently.
If I casually threw the drill into a big funnel, went for a cuppa tea, cut my toe nails and returned to find a good-as-new razor sharp drill bit sitting at the other end of the contraption, I’d class this product as an automated machine cut drill bit.
So by this subjective view of cutting, what do you guys in the industry describe and prescribe as hand and machine cut?
And knowing this information, if I was to tell you that I have come to the conclusion that the cut of the diamond is my number 1 priority, simply because I want a performing diamond, is there any real advantage of one method over another? As I see it, the diamond either performs or it don’t. Which ever way we get to this standard shouldn’t matter; accept for maybe the romance of having a skilled craftsman working on your gem.
But then again, being an engineer, as much as I have great admiration for such ever-decreasing craftsmen, I feel that a machine, if designed and used correctly, can consistently achieve more accurate results.
What are the basic options for cutting Diamonds, what are most common and, of course, which option is the most valued and why?
Maybe you think I’m talking out of my a**e. However, I’d still be very, very grateful if anyone out there felt qualified to comment did so.
Thanks in advance.
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