Engagement Rings : Diamonds are known for their sparkle
One of the first things that people will say if asked to describe a diamond is that they sparkle.
Imagine a diamond for a second.
The image in your mind will display a sparkling stone beaming out light and color.
Diamonds are known for their sparkle.
As a purchaser, how do you buy a diamond that sparkles?
The factors involved in a diamonds value and its characteristic features are usually classed as follows.
Color, Clarity, Carat, and Cut.
In this article we will deal with Cut.
The cut of a diamond refers to two things.
The shape and the quality of the cut in regards to its proportions.
The shape of the diamond is a varied affair these days due to the amount of custom cuts on the market, but the standard and most common ones are the Round, Princess (square), Heart, and Emerald (rectangular).
Other cuts include, Baguette, Trillion, Cushion, Ascher, and the list goes on.
The shape will have an influence on the sparkle of the diamond and the way it display the light to the eye of the observer, but most have been optimized and perfected over the years to ensure all the major cuts provide maximum results.
The second factor in cut is the facets.
The facets are the faces of the diamond creating by carefully and accurately placed angled cuts on the outside of the diamond.
Take a moment to imagine the diamond as a set of mirrors all positioned to bounce the maximum amount of light from each other in an upwards direction to the eye of the observer.
If all the mirrors are perfectly positioned the maximum amount of light will follow the best possible path up to the top of the diamond and will then perform a color and sparkle display for the observer.
If the mirrors are off a little then light will follow a path away from the top and exit out of the sides or bottom of the diamond, thus resulting in reduced sparkle due to lost light.
This is primarily how a diamond sparkles.
When choosing a diamond that will provide the maximum amount of light display (sparkle) you should be sure to get the best grade of cut you can.
Cut is graded as such.
It is graded from 000 up to 10.
000 being absolutely perfect cut, basically unbeatable, 0-00 is excellent, 1-2 is a good cut, and so on until you get into the higher numbers that would be something like a beginner to diamond cutting would produce.
Obviously the better the cut the higher the price tag, so do not be disappointed if you can not raise the funds for a 000 cut, it is similar to buying a Bentley of diamonds, not everyone can do it, but that does not mean that anything lower is vastly inferior, it just means it is not of the highest grade in the world, but certainly not the lowest.
Any sales associate trained to sell loose diamonds will be able to inform you about the cut of the diamond you are viewing and any diamond over 0.50 carat weight that is of decent quality or better usually has a diamond certificate that records the cut quality, color grade clarity rating, and proportions of the diamond.
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