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Clipped vs. Rectangular Corners??? |
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| P: 10/24/2005 4:47:05 PM | |
lovelylulu Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,000 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 7/6/2005 |
In an EC, could someone explain the difference? Is this just a personal preference or are there benefits to one over the other. Pictures always help the most 
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| Posted: 10/24/2005 4:47:05 PM | |
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| P: 10/24/2005 10:28:33 PM | |
Tacori E-ring Ideal Rock Total Posts: 16,087 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 8/15/2005 |
I am not an expert or anything but I thought all ECs have "clipped corners" I think radiants don't. Not sure. I personally like the angled corners on my EC. The way it is set, the prongs kind of finishes the rectangle if that makes any sense. Also stones with 90 degree corners are more subject to damage or chips so that is a major con. HTH
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| Posted: 10/24/2005 10:28:33 PM | |
| P: 10/25/2005 8:25:00 AM | |
windowshopper Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,023 Last Post: 7/25/2006 Member Since: 7/11/2004 |
Date: 10/24/2005 4:47:05 PM Well the best person for pictures is Valeria 101 (ana). so hopefully she will join in here........ If you look in a Tiffany brochure or blue book you will actually see EC's described as either EC or clipped corner EC............All EC's haved "clipped" corners to some degree. I dont know at what measurement point the definition changes. I think the difference is largely visual. I have an EC with the distinct shoulders but on the GIA report and the appraisal report it is referred to as an EC.........no other comments
Author:lovelylulu In an EC, could someone explain the difference? Is this just a personal preference or are there benefits to one over the other. Pictures always help the most
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| Posted: 10/25/2005 8:25:00 AM | |
| P: 10/25/2005 9:19:41 AM | |
valeria101 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 14,048 Last Post: 4/30/2006 Member Since: 8/29/2003 |
Pictures you say? ;) sure... I'll try to find some. The square/rectangular step cuts without clipped corners would be baguette cuts - aside the usual tiny sidestones, there are large ones and cut to the right proportions, these are spectacular! I was lucky enough to find some large, mesmerizing baguettes - a pair of about 4 cts each, and I am still trying to foget them  The tips of such diamonds could be ever so slightly 'blunted' to make them less likely to chip during setting, and some baguettes have very discrete corner facets for the same reason. On the thread linked below there is a square done like that. And this one sort of shows a bit of something on the corners too. Btw, can you believe this is I1??  1.5 cts E-I1 baguette, they say. Perhaps the pictures got mixed up! There is an entire thread about cut and uncut corners down here with some pictures on it. Now that I am thinking... one sort of emerald cut makes a compromise between the two. On some stones, the corner breaks (the rows of facets cut on the corners) do not go all the way down to the keel of the stone - so the steps around the culet are not interrupted on the corners and this shows in the pattern of reflections pretty well. Here's one like that - the corner break facets are barely there on the last step next to the keel: Just some random 0.2 worth... Ana "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." [Souren Melikian] |
| Posted: 10/25/2005 9:19:41 AM | |
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