7 main - 50 facet round?

[Cehrabehra]

I was looking at a site for colored gems a while back and the cutter had several he'd done with only SEVEN mains and I thought they looked fantastic - they still had wonderful symmetry but not the 8 main symmetry... it looked more like chaos but at the same time, ordered chaos. I thought it would be interesting to know if this would work in a diamond... has it been done? Having only 7 mains also has the added benefit of being a bit chunkier. But I don't know what it would mean to other aspects of the cut... I have seen hex diamonds and they're pretty cool looking but what I liked about the 7 was that it lacked that rigidity... not sure how to explain it but I'm sure I've used enough words to get my point across lol

Diagem? Anyone?

 

[marcy]

Do you have link to one cut like that? It sounds interesting.

 

[stone-cold11]

Probably the crystal plane of diamond is not conducive to a 7 main cut. Other gems are easier as all other stones can be polish with diamond dust but diamond against diamond, wrong orientation will result in a longer, if not impossible cutting time?

 

[Cehrabehra]

excellent point stone cold.... don't know why I didn't think of that. Would love to know if you are *absolutely* correct because I still fantasize lol

I'll see if I can find a pic

 

[Cehrabehra]

Okay, I had a hard time uploading both pics...

I know this isn't round or a diamond... but it is 7 mains and I think it's lovely