You may ask why is diamond cutting being presented last? When it's the most important category? It is simple; you have to understand color and how it affects the look of the light coming from the stone. The combination of cutting and color will make an outstanding stone.

For the purpose of this lesson, we will only be speaking of the modern American brilliant cut style of cutting. Tokowsky developed this style of cutting in the late 1930's. Today we look at this as the standard, but do accept some variations due to our preferences as customers. Remember, in this category as well as the others you choose what is important to you. To understand cutting,F you first have to be familiar with the rough diamond.

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