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ATTN: Jewelers: Can a diamond be polished & leave faceting..
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Re: ATTN: Jewelers: Can a diamond be polished & leave faceti
If the abrasions from years of wear are light to moderate a re-polishing of the facets will cause the diamond to lose only a tiny bit of weight. It won't have any effect on visual size and unless the weight loss makes a critical weight range change, such as from 1.00ct to 0.99ct, there will be no real value change. You can't casually polish a diamond and that'swhy it is so durable in the first place.
If the abrasions from years of wear are light to moderate a re-polishing of the facets will cause the diamond to lose only a tiny bit of weight. It won't have any effect on visual size and unless the weight loss makes a critical weight range change, such as from 1.00ct to 0.99ct, there will be no real value change. You can't casually polish a diamond and that'swhy it is so durable in the first place.
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Re: ATTN: Jewelers: Can a diamond be polished & leave faceti
Nope - like OldMiner says, it's the durability of the diamond working against you (in a way) - the hardness that keeps a diamond from getting scratched by the random things you encounter in daily life also makes a soft chamois cloth completely and utterly useless for anything other than wiping grime off the surface. But, seriously, repolishing a center stone is not a big deal - for a mid-range stone, you're talking about maybe a couple of hundred dollars.
iluvdiamonds2|1296699891|2841472 said:So if you repolish you lose carat weight, so the facets have to be all redone??I mean, can't they just buff it with a soft chamois buffer thing or something?
Nope - like OldMiner says, it's the durability of the diamond working against you (in a way) - the hardness that keeps a diamond from getting scratched by the random things you encounter in daily life also makes a soft chamois cloth completely and utterly useless for anything other than wiping grime off the surface. But, seriously, repolishing a center stone is not a big deal - for a mid-range stone, you're talking about maybe a couple of hundred dollars.
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Re: ATTN: Jewelers: Can a diamond be polished & leave faceti
A skilled cutter will be able to "refresh" the stone while leaving it's personality.
One area that such a cutter can actually improve old stones is the girdle.
In many cases that's where you'll find damage.
Also older stones may have non polished girdles.
By cleaning up the girdle, and polishing it the stone gets just a little brighter.
Unfortunately a shammy won't do the trick. Now if you got a Shammy-WOW.....
A skilled cutter will be able to "refresh" the stone while leaving it's personality.
One area that such a cutter can actually improve old stones is the girdle.
In many cases that's where you'll find damage.
Also older stones may have non polished girdles.
By cleaning up the girdle, and polishing it the stone gets just a little brighter.
Unfortunately a shammy won't do the trick. Now if you got a Shammy-WOW.....
Hello there. I have a 1.88 ish carat old miner with TINY nicks only visible under 10x magnification on the crown facets. I’m an obsessive person (probably because I work with microscopes all day) and was wondering if I should have a minor repolish but I’m concerned about it changing the visual appearance (it’s already cut very shallow) and whether it’s worth doing at all as I’m never ever going to sell it. I’m just concerned with it looking visually smaller or it negatively impacting the optics of the stone my making it shallower by polishing the top. Would either of these things happen if I had it repolished?
Thanks for your time
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