"Old Style" Cuts with modern standards.

[Brillig]

Okay. People on here often claim that their brand of modified brilliant has superior scintillation due to the aditional facets (i.e. leo or solasfera). The regulars usually counter that more small sparkles aren''t necessarily "better" than fewer larger sparkles. I was wandering if anyone has ever taken this a step in the other direction and produced diamonds with less than the 57 standard facets. I know historically diamonds have been cut with as few as 9 facets (can you imagine?!?). But has anyone in the past couple decades, with modern techniques and proportions, tried something with fewer facets? In my head I have an image of a 33 Facet stone with TONS of contrast and HUGE sparkles.

 

[strmrdr]

I''m working on it but if any of them ever gets cut who knows :}

Diamonds evolved for a reason and that reason is the move in indoor lighting from candles and torches too brighter and harsher electric lighting.
Its about too change again too cft bulbs.
Will diamonds follow? very well could and likely will long term.

 

[WinkHPD]

Date: 4/2/2008 4:40:31 PM
Author:Brillig
Okay. People on here often claim that their brand of modified brilliant has superior scintillation due to the aditional facets (i.e. leo or solasfera). The regulars usually counter that more small sparkles aren''t necessarily ''better'' than fewer larger sparkles. I was wandering if anyone has ever taken this a step in the other direction and produced diamonds with less than the 57 standard facets. I know historically diamonds have been cut with as few as 9 facets (can you imagine?!?). But has anyone in the past couple decades, with modern techniques and proportions, tried something with fewer facets? In my head I have an image of a 33 Facet stone with TONS of contrast and HUGE sparkles.

Yes, those cuts probably are much better in larger sizes, as at the average size of most diamonds that we sell they would be very busy and havig smaller flashes of dispersion than can be detected by our human eyes. For us to see the dispersion, the ray must be longer at the point it impacts the eye than the width of the iris of the eye, otherwise we see it as white light rather than dispersion.

I don''t know, it could be killer, but it could be too large and too monochromatic, you would have to ask someone with more kowledge about this than I have. I do know that large single cuts become pretty boring, at least the ones that I have seen as you need some quantity of virtual facets to make things pop.

If you have a few extra hundred thousand running around we can cut a few for you to see what they look like...

Wink

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 4/2/2008 7:47:56 PM
Author: Wink

Date: 4/2/2008 4:40:31 PM
Author:Brillig
Okay. People on here often claim that their brand of modified brilliant has superior scintillation due to the aditional facets (i.e. leo or solasfera). The regulars usually counter that more small sparkles aren''t necessarily ''better'' than fewer larger sparkles. I was wandering if anyone has ever taken this a step in the other direction and produced diamonds with less than the 57 standard facets. I know historically diamonds have been cut with as few as 9 facets (can you imagine?!?). But has anyone in the past couple decades, with modern techniques and proportions, tried something with fewer facets? In my head I have an image of a 33 Facet stone with TONS of contrast and HUGE sparkles.

Yes, those cuts probably are much better in larger sizes, as at the average size of most diamonds that we sell they would be very busy and havig smaller flashes of dispersion than can be detected by our human eyes. For us to see the dispersion, the ray must be longer at the point it impacts the eye than the width of the iris of the eye, otherwise we see it as white light rather than dispersion.

I don''t know, it could be killer, but it could be too large and too monochromatic, you would have to ask someone with more kowledge about this than I have. I do know that large single cuts become pretty boring, at least the ones that I have seen as you need some quantity of virtual facets to make things pop.

If you have a few extra hundred thousand running around we can cut a few for you to see what they look like...

Wink

put a properly angled 1ct single cut in candle light and it will blow away the RB.
Put them in bright spot lighting and the RB will look like it has more life.
as always it comes down to lighting lighting lighting lighting lighting.
We finally found 2 things today to disagree a little on :} lol