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Emerald Cut Diamonds
Emerald Cut Diamonds- This is an eight-sided step cut diamond with a rectangular outline. This cutting style gets its name from a common cutting style that's used for, you guessed it, Emeralds. Emerald gems are cut from long pencil-like rough crystals. This cutting style gives the best weight retention from the Emerald rough and when diamonds were cut in the same style to match up with the beautiful green Emerald center stone, the Emerald Cut diamonds looked pretty good also, so it became available as a diamond shape. This shape was particularly popular during the Art Deco period. When I see Emerald Cut diamonds, I think of the old movies from the 30's.... these diamonds can be very elegant. This is not a brilliant cutting style, it is a step cut style which means it has long narrow facets. With a brilliant cutting style there are many small irregular shaped facets on a curved surface around the diamond... so a round brilliant cut will be all "blingy", and yes.... blingy is a very technical gemological term! The step cut facets on these diamonds are fewer and much larger, so there are broad flashes of light as the diamond moves.  For classic Emerald Cut diamonds, look for a length-to-width ratio between
1.30 and 1.40 to 1. There are also some variations in the amount that the corners are beveled... I've seen some corners just barely cut and others that have been cut back quite a bit. There really
isn't an exact guideline to follow here... if the length to width along with the amount of bevel that the corners have seems to work together, then that's all that matters. The prongs are usually
placed at the cut corners so once the diamond is set it will change the look by covering the corners.
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