Gemstone Faceting Diagrams and Technical Cutting Information


Diagrams for use in faceting a wide variety of gemstones.

The Three Muses Gemstone Design

The Three Muses Gemstone Design

The Three Muses gemstone is a faceting design based on the number 3. These notes, diagrams, and instructions will show...
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The Gemstone Butterfly Cut

The Gemstone Butterfly Cut

The Gemstone Butterfly is a stunning design for a custom-cut gem. Our step-by-step guide will show you how to facet...
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The Hayek Cut for Gemstones

The Hayek Cut for Gemstones

The Hayek cut is great for light to medium-colored gem rough that’s blocky but not square enough for an emerald...
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Frosted Stars: Variations on Star-Cut Gemstones

Frosted Stars: Variations on Star-Cut Gemstones

“Frosted Stars” are variations on classic five and six-pointed star-cut gemstones. Learn how to facet these gem designs and make...
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The Fan Shield Gemstone Cut

The Fan Shield Gemstone Cut

The Fan Shield cut will bring out the brilliance in gems with deep color saturation. Learn how to cut this...
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The Pentafan Gemstone Design

The Pentafan Gemstone Design

The Pentafan is a unique cut designed for larger gems with deep color saturation. Learn how to cut this design...
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How to Add Sparkle to an Emerald Cut

How to Add Sparkle to an Emerald Cut

Add sparkle to an emerald cut with a new cutting technique. You can apply this design to gemstones with standard...
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Hammers: Guest Designers, Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Hammers: Guest Designers, Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Gem cutter Daniel Starr gave his “Hammers” gem design to the faceting community. Here, he describes his design and gives...
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Stripes and Blades: Guest Designers, Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Stripes and Blades: Guest Designers, Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Gem cutter Daniel Starr gave his “Stripes and Blades” gem design to the faceting community. Here, he describes his design...
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Simple Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Simple Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Simple Heart gem design is ideal for small stones. It only needs the bare minimum number of facets...
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Memory: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Memory: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

All animal lovers have lost a friend at one time or another. Jeff Graham created “Memory,” an intermediate-level gem design,...
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Mistress: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Mistress: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

The Mistress gem design by Jeff Graham looks like a princess cut but works well with light-colored stones. Learn more...
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Chinese Checker: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Chinese Checker: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Many square gem designs lack appeal because they’re not very bright. Jeff Graham’s Chinese Checker cut combines good light return...
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Pin Wheel: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Pin Wheel: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Inspired by the classic children’s toy, Jeff Graham’s award-winning Pin Wheel gem design is easy to cut and makes a...
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Signature #4: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Signature #4: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

The Signature #4 is Jeff Graham’s favorite trillion cut for light-colored gemstones. This popular design is also fast and easy...
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Utopia: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Utopia: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Utopia gem design is a large Barion pear cut for light to medium-colored stones. Learn about this advanced...
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Rose Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Rose Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Rose Heart gem design has a lot of steps but not many facets. It’s fast and easy to...
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Heart Squared: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Heart Squared: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Checkered hearts make popular gem cuts. Jeff Graham’s Heart Squared design works well with any medium to light-colored material.
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Updated Rainbow: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Updated Rainbow: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s original Rainbow gem design has always been popular. However, inexperienced faceters have found it very challenging. This updated...
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CheckMate – Reflector: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

CheckMate – Reflector: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s CheckMate gem design is a great choice for quartz or beryl earrings, especially for large stones in medium...
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Brilliant Pear: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Brilliant Pear: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Brilliant Pear gem design will produce a pleasingly shaped stone, ideal for novice faceters. Professionals will also like...
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Smith Bar: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Smith Bar: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Smith Bar gem design is easy to cut. One Smith Bar gem has even found its way into...
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Cornered: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Cornered: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Cornered is a checkerboard cut suitable for gem material that’s too dark or large for a standard design....
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Gram Easy Emerald: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Gram Easy Emerald: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Easy to cut, the Gram Easy Emerald by Jeff Graham will maximize gem yield. This design and its cutting sequence...
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Simple Portuguese: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

Simple Portuguese: Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams

The Portuguese cut works wonderfully for very deep gemstones with high refractive indices. Jeff Graham’s Simple Portuguese, a modification of...
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Gram Prince: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Gram Prince: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

A rectangular redesign based on A. Nagy’s classic princess cut for diamonds, the Gram Prince by Jeff Graham works well...
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Gram Princess: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Gram Princess: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Introduced in 1960, the classic princess by A. Nagy was an economical cut for flat diamond crystals. However, this popular...
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Button: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Button: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Inspired by faceted shell and mother of pearl buttons from the Roaring Twenties, the Button design by Jeff Graham is...
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Sonoran Snowflake: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Sonoran Snowflake: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Want to cut a gemstone the size of a door knob? Jeff Graham's Sonoran Snowflake gem design is for you....
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“B” Still My Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

“B” Still My Heart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Due to the single-fold symmetry of heart gem designs, most hearts can be tedious and time consuming to cut. Jeff...
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Tzar: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Tzar: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

The Tzar gem design by Jeff Graham works best for large, light-colored stones. This cut will make a very interesting,...
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White Asterism: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

White Asterism: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Danburite is a beautiful but underappreciated gemstone. Jeff Graham's White Asterism cut can take full advantage of this gem’s qualities....
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Blue Ice: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Blue Ice: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Blue Ice gem design is easy to cut. It performs well for gems with low refractive indices like...
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Blink: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Blink: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Blink cut is a great design for tourmalines. When viewed straight on, every facet reflects light, but if...
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Light House: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Light House: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

A “Money Cut” is a gem design that’s fast and easy with great performance. That’s what Jeff Graham’s Light House...
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Tic Tac: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Tic Tac: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Tic Tac gem design is ideal for earrings. It shows an interesting “X” pattern on the crown. Learn...
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Mumble: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Mumble: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

"The Mumble" by Jeff Graham can be cut with or without a table and is well suited for medium to...
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SweetHeart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

SweetHeart: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s SweetHeart cut shows great flash and dispersion. It’s a good choice for novices trying to cut their first...
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Aqua Cisir: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Aqua Cisir: Online Faceting Designs and Diagrams

Jeff Graham’s Aqua Cisir cut is ideal for quartz and beryl gemstones and has exceptional flash and yield. Intermediate and...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Gram Lone Star

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Gram Lone Star

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Gram Portuguese

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Gram Portuguese

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Easy Does It

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Easy Does It

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: First Wave

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: First Wave

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Angel Cross

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Angel Cross

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: 4 Way Stop

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: 4 Way Stop

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Three Wise Men

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Three Wise Men

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Round Brilliant Dome #2

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Round Brilliant Dome #2

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. A Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this is...
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Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Noel Oval

Online Faceting Designs & Diagrams: Noel Oval

Information and guide on Faceting Designs. An Online Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this...
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