cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/502239

This is a new design that has 198 facets that I thought was going to be a challenge to cut, but was much easier than I anticipated. I would have uploaded a video, but haven’t figured out quite how to do that yet.

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    • Crylos@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      The design was based on originally trying to achieve a swirling affect, but I ended up with this when I was designing it in gem cad studio. I loved the render and decided to try the cut.

      For those that don’t know how gems are cut, there are a couple of different style machines, I use what’s called a mast style from Ultratec. A stone is cut based on index(position around the circumference) and angle and is cut by grinding the stone down on different grit laps. For this stone I used a 260, 1200, 3000 and finally 60,000 diamond.

      Overall this stone took about 5 hours to cut.