Every day we strive to meet the highest standards forcutting and polishing each diamond in our care."
A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE DIAMOND
Every employee at Twara Diam is accountable to the process of creating beautiful diamonds. The artisans involved in the planning, sawing, cutting and polishing of a diamond are entitled and expected to halt the process if they see an opportunity to compel more brilliance, more value from a diamond.
MAKING BEAUTY
To create the finest gem possible from each rough stone, Twara Diam draws on generations of craftsmen and diamantaires’ proven technology and more than forty years of experience.
TOGETHER, THESE INFORM THE STEPS WE TAKE TO TURN a ROUGH stone INTO a shiny POLISHed diamond:
Sorting
Each gem begins as, quite literally, a diamond in the rough, one of many in the packets Twara Diam receives from its portfolio of ethical suppliers. Our rough diamond planners measure each rough diamond and assess its potential mainly according to its size, shape, clarity and colour. If a diamond could be part of our Flawless collection, we direct it there for special care. If the diamond is merely gorgeous, it is forwarded to the experts in our planning department.
Planning
Here our skilled artisans begin the work of considering what will emerge from the rough. The planner is the architect of the diamond and will consider many options for what shapes and sizes could result, what colors may imbue the diamond and where minor inclusions might be retained or excised.
"If this diamond is worth gifting the person i love?"
Sawing
Here almost all of our rough stones are sawn into one or more diamonds, in accordance with the planner's vision, by computer-aided machines. In contrast to the old image of a cutter with a hammer and cleaving chisel, state of art tech lasers operate noiselessly and precisely, painstakingly flashing atom after atom from the stone. Our diamond sawing operation requires careful work to set the stone perfectly in the machine and program the necessary cuts. Our cutters are also looking to the future, continually experimenting with new methods and tools to make the process more precise and efficient.
Shaping
In the shaping of a diamond, also known as 4P process, it involves the shaping of the base of a diamond, by which it more or less receives its basic form of polished diamond. The circumference of the cut stone forms the shape of the girdle, which is the narrow band that encompasses the edge of the plane separating the crown and the pavilion of a polished gemstone. 4p process can be done manually but most is done mechanically today. More modern cutting methods involve laser beams
Polishing
Finally for polishing, we use the hardness of diamonds as the ideal tool for smoothing a 4p processed stone, You ask how?, we use a ceramic wheel, coated in industrial diamond grit, and an electronic lathe that is monitored by our hawk-eyed artisans. While the name bruting suggests a blunt process, shaping requires the utmost care to ensure the proper amount of contact between the diamond and the wheel also known as scaife. A coolant solution, poured continually over the diamond during this process, keeps the diamond from developing burn marks or even miniscule fractures that could adversely affect its resulting size or clarity.
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