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2. Rio Grande (company) - Wikipedia

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   Rio Grande, a Berkshire Hathaway Company since 2013, offers jewelry-making supplies. While specializing in silver findings and fabrication materials, the company also provides metalsmithing tools and equipment, jewelry displays and packaging products, jewelry workbenches, casting machines and kilns, soldering and welding torches, gemstones ...

3. Cut (gems) - Wikipedia

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   A gemstone desired to be used in jewelry is cut depending on the size and shape of the rough stone, as well as the desired piece of jewelry to be made. As a general rule, a cut gemstone will reduce the mass (in carats) by about 50%. [1] Among the several techniques used to work with gemstones are sawing, grinding, sanding, lapping, polishing ...

4. Granulation (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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   The metals used in granulation are usually gold and/or silver alloys of high purity – alloys below 18 kt. gold and sterling silver being unsuitable. With each technique, the process begins with the making of the granules themselves. [2] The granules are made from the same material as the base to which they will be affixed.

5. Stonesetting - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known technique of attaching stones to jewelry was bezel setting. A bezel is a strip of metal bent into the shape and size of the stone and then soldered to the piece of jewelry. The stone is then inserted into the bezel, and the metal edge of the bezel pressed over the edge of the stone, holding it in place.

6. Royal Asscher Diamond Company - Wikipedia

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   The original design had 58 step-cut facets, a small table, high crown and steep pavilion with cut corners. An accurate description would be a cut cornered square emerald cut diamond. Also known as square emerald cuts, Asscher cut diamonds are roughly square in shape when viewed from above but have cut corners for more light to enter the diamond.

7. Diamond (gemstone) - Wikipedia

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   Neither of these changes makes the diamond appear any larger, and both greatly reduce the sparkle of the diamond. (A poorly cut 1.0-carat (200 mg) diamond may have the same diameter and appear as large as a 0.85-carat (170 mg) diamond.) The depth percentage is the overall quickest indication of the quality of the cut of a round brilliant ...