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Understanding Nature
EightStar cutters must learn many intricacies in their training, and they must start with the most crucial: developing a feel for the diamond.
Like wood, diamond has a grain, or arrangement of crystals, that allows working in only one direction. The cutter must first learn to go with the grain. This alone takes three months, as the cutter begins to understand the physical nuances of the stone. And this has important ramifications later on.
The cutter's goal is to produce that perfect eight-rayed pattern in the finished diamond. But there is a paradox to this process: while each diamond must display the same pattern, it cannot be simply stamped out.
Diamonds are created by nature and no two are alike. Each stone must be cut according to its own unique elements, with the unique challenges it presents. Only by paying close attention to a diamond's individual properties does the cutter see how to exactly place the facets in the stone.
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