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Creation of the EightStar
During this time, many extremely well-qualified cutting professionals tried to produce what Mr. Tamura wanted - but to no avail. The partners changed the business plan once again. This time they decided to begin their own diamond polishing endeavor, to try to cut diamonds that would appear perfect in the punishing FireScope.
Mr. Tamura employed Mr. Kioyishi Higuchi, an experienced cutter of colored gems and diamonds. Higuchi will be remembered forever in the history of diamond cutting as the name of the first cutter to actually realize Tolkowsky's dreams.
Mr. Higuchi was given what appeared to be an impossible task for the diamond industry - to make each diamond neither leak light nor vary from the extremely precise symmetry required to make the pattern of the eight-rayed star.
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