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Making of “Precious N semiprecious”
Gemstone
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The journey of a fine
cut gem stone from its origin rock to its destination the beautiful
neck, arm, and ears is a rigorous and interesting path. It starts
it journey from rocks where it has only name, to the factories where
it gets its shape and size and the fire. It is simply the best example
of the craftsmanship and imagination of mankind, which has created ample
of beautiful artifacts excavated from the earth. |
Please
tour my factory and see how a dead stone
transforms in to
a lively cut gemstones.
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1.
Rough From Rocks
The roughs at rocks are big in sizes and
are present with many other
similar stones. There they
are sorted out and are graded according to there
properties.
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2. Marking
Of Rough
The rough is then marked
to get chipped into different size and
quality.
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3.
Chipping Of Stone
Marked rough get chipped down on the basis of marking
and the color gradation. |
4 Gradations Of Chipped Stone
This is most important, decisive and crucial part of the gem stones
making. Here the sorter sorts the stones, for its shape i.e. round,
oval, drops, bell, etc and size i.e. 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, etc. Colors
i.e. light, medium, dark. |
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5. Cutting n Polishing
After sorting the chipped stone, now comes the turn
to give them desired shape n size. Here highly skilled artisans
facets, carves, and polishes on the running wheel.
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6.
Final Gradations Of Faceted Stones
Now it is the turn of final sorter to sort out and make grades of
these faceted stones on the basis of its facets, transparency, opaqueness,
translucency, color density, chipping, and cracks.
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