So, in my last post someone asked me if I still had the stone I first cut. This is it, a plain piece of quartz. It's pretty large measuring in at around 18.5mm or just under 3/4 of an inch in diameter. The standard brilliant cut is not a hard cut, and is a great cut to start out with. If you make mistakes it still turns out nice.
One of the biggest mistakes I made on this stone was not properly aligning the stone on transfer, and ended up with the crown being lopsided from the pavilion. You can see in the above picture how I cut out the girdle on one side of the stone. I could be self critical about this stone and point out half a dozen things I did wrong, but why bother? That was many many many moons ago, and I don't make those mistakes nearly as often. 😜
