pattern instead of table

[Drif]

I've been playing around with some new cuts. They are cut to focus light in certain patterns and use reflectors instead of tables. The images are taken with around 10-15x (my digital microscope has a dial without markings) or with my phone and the messy desk cropped out so be nice ...

What do you folks think?




I did post some of these in a wrong forum (Sorry PS)

I'm a collector with a cutting hobby. None of these are for sale.

Thanks

 

[Arcadian]

Interesting! I can barely cut food much less gemstones But I'd be interesting as to how you came up with your design

 

[Drif]

Hahaha, I can barely cut food either.

Pretty much three different ways to get these designs...

1. Most often, recently: I sit with a blank page in a composite notebook, keep the angles within certain parameters (critical angle and such) and start cutting out inclusions. Then I turn the pattern symetrical. Yes, this is sometimes wasteful, but it's fun for me and it's my rough. muhahaha. Joking aside, I keep track of every cut in the notebook and have tweeked them over time.

2. Sometimes, normally if I paid a bunch for the stone, I'll follow a pattern from the web. Sometimes I mess up those patterns and then 'build' that through multiple iterations.

3. This is new to me but where I'm heading:
A. Look at the color
B. Match the color to sound wavelengths through music theory
C. Find a sympathetic wavelength in the visible light spectrum
D. Cut a pattern that matches the resonance frequency of that pattern

It turned out pretty nice in the red gem above. I can't wait to cut some more with this pattern.