Polished Girdles
A Polished Girdle looks clean and smooth all the way around. No Facets, no roughness, just a clean, smooth strip that circles the outer perimeter of the stone.
After a gemstone is sawed and ground to the desired shape and sanded to remove rough marks left by coarser grits, it is usually polished to a mirror-like finish to aid light reflection from the surface of the stone (or refraction through the ...
Rough diamonds are any and all diamonds which have not yet been polished. They are often called simply "rough" in the trade, although the words uncut or unpolished are also used.
The term "rough" is used for all qualities of diamond.
Polished girdles have no facets, here the surface is smooth and well polished.
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Polished Finish : This finish gives the look which is close to platinum and surgical steel look. It is certainly far different from white or silver rather nearer to the special metallic glance.
Polished Girdle: A girdle that has been lapped or polished to yield a uniform, highly reflective surface.
Princess Cut: A type of brilliant cut fancy shape that can be either square or rectangular.
Polished slices are sometimes used in jewelry, but more often are displayed as specimens, or ornamental objects such as bookends, wind chimes, or with translucent material, "sun catchers".
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Polished Girdle A girdle which had been finely ground to a polished finish instead of the older and simpler matt finish left by bruting.
Polished Girdle - A girdle that has been lapped to yield either a lustrous, curved surface or a series of flat, polished surfaces (facets).
Polished Cutting - design technique cutting glass with an abrasive wheel, then polishing with acid or a buffing wheel.
Fire Polished beads give the same appearance as the aurora borealis but are usually less costly; the beads sparkle and shine and reflect light more readily than plain glass beads.
High Polished Finish
Also called a gloss finish or high gloss finish, this vibrant finishing technique is achieved through excessive buffing and polishing. The result is an extremely smooth, unblemished surface with a glossy shine.
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FIRE POLISHED
These glass beads start life as a pressed round which is then machine-faceted, it is then placed in a polishing furnace that heats the bead's surface and softens the facets.
Highly Polished: All jewelry is polished to some extent in order to remove the rough surfaces which are formed in the manufacturing process.
Polished Two Tone Wedding Band in 14k White & Yellow Gold $565
Beveled Edge Wedding Band in 14k White Gold $505
Round Brilliant Shared Prong Set Diamond Ring in 14k White Gold $890 ...
Polished horse brasses, whether displayed on a leather harness or hung singly, look very good against a beam or on a white wall.
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Polished Cabochons
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Rough Aventurine
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Polished & dyed bamboo coral beads
Bamboo corals are in the Family Isididae, which are octo-corals, having eight pinnate tentacles on each polyp that can be either retractile, or non-retractile.
Polished Girdle
Usually a girdle edge that has been finished to a high polish or a series of small facets all around the edge of the stone. Most girdles have a gray waxy appearance.
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Polished planes present on the surface of a diamond
Faceted girdle
Result obtained from polishing the girdle for increased reflection, such that a round diamond has 32 facets.
Polished - Most popular finish on gold, giving it a smooth finish and a bright shine.
Satin - A widely used finish on gold, achieved by dulling he surface to create a silk like luster instead of a shiny surface.
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Polished Surface
A smooth and glossy surface, with no visible imperfections.
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A polished surface; a small plane which is cut into a surface and enhances its reflection of light.
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A polished plate of rolled copper on which a design is engraved for printing. Also describes plating of copper on to other metals.
Copper wall
Term used in sugar making to describe a double row of copper pans served by a common fire.
The polished surfaces, which are known as the "facets", of a well polished Diamond will look like mirrors. The proportions of a Diamond are the key to how much light will enter and then be reflected back out of the Diamond.
fire polished
Fire polishing is a less expensive way of polishing cut glass. In this process heat is used to smooth the outer surface of the cut glass. In general, fire polished beads are faceted.
When polished, hematite has such a high sheen that long ago it was used as mirrors. Its content is iron oxide (the source of its redness in powdered form).
When polished it is similar in appearance to pearl and is extensively used for cutlery handles, buttons, buckles and other small ornamental objects.
fire polished - Glass beads that have been passed through a flame rather than buffed to smooth their surface.
Flat polished surface on a finished diamond.
Fancy Shape
Any cut other than a round brilliant or single cut.
Once polished, most diamonds are sold and traded in the 24 registered diamond bourses around the world. At this point, the polished diamonds are ready to be set into finished pieces of jewelry, which is the manufacturer's job.
Though polished superficially, it is quite uncut, and is of an irregular pear shape. Upon four of its surfaces, respectively, the names or titles of four of the Mogul Emperors are engraved.
Highly Polished Silver Hexagon Perfume Bottle Pendant
Price $39.99 - Sold
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If well polished the luster can approach or equal that of diamond, but sphene is notoriously difficult to polish well. A well polished sphene is testament to an experienced jewelr.
smooth, polished surface, or more commonly into a series of flat, polished facets. As opposed to a dull-looking unpolished girdle.
A highly polished gemstone with a dome top and no faceting.
cabochon cut
A smooth, rounded cut which does not contain any planes (facets).
A plane, polished surface on a gemstone which allows light to enter in a stone and reflect off through different angles.
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Facet
The polished flat surfaces on a diamond. For example, a round brilliant diamond has 58 facets including the culet.
A polished surface on a diamond.
Fire
Fire is the amount of colored light reflected from within a diamond. White light entering a stone is separated into the many colors of the rainbow just like a prism.
The cut and polished part of a gemstone.
Fire
The rainbow or colors that come from light rays as they enter a gemstone.
Once cut and polished, all diamonds possess a shared set of characteristics, often referred to as the anatomy of the diamond.
Facet A plane, polished surface on a diamond or other gemstone.
Faceting The operation of placing facets on a diamond or other gem.
Facet: The polished surface/plane on a diamond or gemstone.
Filigree: A delicate metal openwork wherein fine wire is bent into spiral, vine-like, shapes and soldered into the gallery of the piece.
Proof - Highly polished dies and special plainchants are used to produce coins with a mirror-like finish. Proof coins are created by striking the coin multiple times, using higher pressure, and polishing the dies.
One of the flat polished surfaces cut on a gemstone which allows the cut stone to sparkle and reflect light. Diamonds, Emeralds, Sapphires and Rubies are normally faceted.
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Jablonex Fire Polished Czech Glass Beads
Similar to Swarovski crystals, these glass beads contain no lead.
They are used in all baby and children's bracelets.
Facet
Plane, polished surface of a diamond.
Fancy Coloured Diamond
A diamond with an attractive natural body colour. Colours range from yellow, blue and green to pink , red and black.
Culet
A small polished surface placed at what would be the point or ridge of a facetted stone, used to reduce chipping.
Cut
The specific from into which a stone is fashioned. One of the deciding factors in gemstone value.
The smooth, flat, polished surfaces on a diamond, allowing light to enter and reflect off at different angles.
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Facets - The flat, polished, cut surfaces or planes of a gemstone. Each cut is made with the proportion of the entire stone in mind.
Fancy color diamonds - Any color diamond other than yellow, brown or gray.
How diamonds are polished, by charging with diamond dust, and facetted by hand, and the machines and tables used ...
Facet - A flat polished surface or plane on a diamond or gemstone.
Fire - This is a diamond's ability to break up white light into the rainbow of colors of the spectrum, or its dispersion.
At this point, the polished gems are ready to be set into finished pieces of jewelry, which is the manufacturer's job.
Facet: A plane, polished surface on a stone.
Fancy Cut: Any style of diamond cutting other than the round brilliant or single cut.
Facet: Any flat polished surface of a diamond or gemstone. This style of cutting gives the stone many small faces at varying angles to one another.
Luster : can be polished like marble
Hardness: variable
Occurrence: found in limestone and dolomite Crystal or stone size: massive
Comments Breithauptite ... see niccolite
Brochantite ... hydrous copper sulfate
Crystallography: monoclinic ...
Cabochon:A gemstone that is shaped and polished, rather than being cut and faceted. A cabochon is most commonly oval with a convex top and a flat bottom which allows the gem to be easily set.
In jewelry making, coral is either carved into beads, cameos, or other forms, or is left in its natural branch-like form and just polished. It used to be thought that coral protected the wearer, so it was a traditional gift to children.
CabochonSmooth polished cushion like stone CameoA style of carving in which the design motif is left and the surrounding surface is cut away leaving the design in relief.
cabochon Gem or stone without facets that is highly polished and has smooth, rounded edges. (See our How To Cab online guide) calcareous Containing the compound calcium carbonate. calcic Containing calcium.
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