Talk:Akhavan - Defiance

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Note: This diagram is one of an ongoing suite of stones. <put link here once I'm done with the suite>

Earlier this year, someone posted a thread in the forums about how the older, more conservative high-end European dealers will refuse a stone that has the table outline not match the girdle outline. I think that's some raging idiotic bullshit, the same type of idiocy that continues these pseudo-Portuguese factory cuts on things like rectangular cushions. (Sorry Jason - I know you like them, but I really, REALLY hate those...) So, as an act of open defiance, I wrote a design with the two most incongruous shapes possible - a triangle and a circle.

And then I wanted more triangles, so I put a triangle inside a triangle, inside a triangle. The reflection pattern even makes the triangles show up against the round outline! The pattern works in any material from quartz to CZ (RI = 1.54 - 2.16), but you might want to optimize the design with quartz. The corners of one triangle have some extinction, but I feel like that just accentuates the triangularity.

As for cutting concerns, the crown may look difficult, but it's very straightforward, with relatively few concerns about overcutting.


Difficulty level = low intermediate