Talk:Diamond cutting

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A grading system and automatic grading of cut quality may be found on [1] It is free for anyone to use and does not require specialized knowledge.

Dave Atlas

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• Diamond Design, Marcel Tolkowsky. Web edition as edited by Jasper Paulsen. www.folds.net, Seattle, 2001.
  Editor's notes 41-45 link to ongoing diamond cut research.

I removed the ref to User: Fplay 04:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] not necessary if....

It wouldnt be necessary to merge with diamond cut if the content of this page was replaced with information about the diamond cutting industry, its locations, etc.

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The 'diamond' aspects of this page should be merged with the diamond cut article, but the wider techniques of facet cutting are applicable to most transparent lapidary materials and need to have a separate article (which I am working on now.)

Clive Washington

As per Clive - this article can and should stand on its own. I've removed the merge tag and added a link across to diamon cut. Hopefully someone will add good information to this article to complement the others in the series. Kcordina ^Talk 14:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)