Join Bopie's husband Michael Sackos -- international award-winning gem cutter -- as he cuts a lovely specimen of Imperial Zircon and explains its history and properties, using a unique hybrid cut style.

For Gearloose Pandimonium™ Diamond Grit Compound as seen in video --
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Bopie's Custom Design featuring this stone --
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I’ve selected a square Portuguese design called “Squartuguese 2” for this stone. This is the first time I’ve ever tried to cut the “Squartuguese 2” design. This design was created by Marco Voltolini. Marco has created a large number of designs and Marco says that he designed the Squartuguese 2 for gemstones with high refractive indexes and the Squartuguese 2 has become his favorite square design for cutting Garnets. Garnets do have a high refractive index, the Zircon has an even higher refractive index, so let’s see how this design works with Zircon!

In this design I need to cut and polish 77 facets (or little mirrors) into this gemstone. That’s a lot more facets than would be used in a more traditional ‘square step’ design which would only require 25 facets to be cut into a stone. So, I’ll be cutting three times the number of facets and hope that we’ll get a lot more sparkle out of this stone than if I just cut a ‘square step’.

In this case, I say “two thumbs up to Marco for his design!” The stone came out awesome!

- Mike

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