About Diamond Jewellery - Cuts, Clarity and Colour:
Kabod Gold Studio offers a selection of white and yellow gold jewellery, diamond jewellery as well as titanium and silver jewellery designs. We are situated in Tzaneen in the Limpopo Province and we render our services nationally. We make use of a streamlined computer designing process. This enables us to provide our clients with high quality 3-dimentional images of their designs. This process is called the Roland Process.
Diamond Cut:
Cut is the human contribution to a diamond's beauty with important effects on each of the other ‘C's’. The cut can both enhance colour and hide inclusions to bring out the special beauty we prize in diamonds. Cutters must visualize a diamond’s potential from the rough stage and plan the work to produce the most valuable combination of characteristics. In terms of the 'Four C's', cut includes a diamond's style and make.
- Style can mean the basic pattern of the facet arrangement, the shape of the stone or both.
- Make means proportions and finish.
Most diamonds have one of three basic facet arrangements: brilliant, step, or mixed.
- Brilliants have facet patterns that radiate from the centre of the stone towards the edge, and that are triangles or combinations of triangles.
- Step cuts have concentric rows of facets parallel to the girdle.
- Mixed cuts have a combination of brilliant and step facets (usually the crown is cut in one style and the pavilion in another).
We feel cut is the most important characteristic of a diamond when purchasing and therefore our diamonds are chosen from the very good to excellent category.
Diamond Colour:
A diamond is the only gem in which an absence of colour means it is more valuable, with the exception of rare fancy colours such as blue, pink and red diamonds. Diamonds in the normal colour range are graded and evaluated by how closely they approach absolute colourlessness. The less colour the higher the grade, and the value.
We highly recommend buying diamonds in the colourless range of D, E, or F, as their brilliance will still sparkle out of the bright lights.
Diamond Clarity:
Clarity refers to the diamond’s nature of being free of natural inclusions or blemishes. Blemishes are external scratches, small nicks and chips and parts of rough crystal surfaces left on the finished stone. Inclusions are internal - other mineral crystals (or diamond), feather (breaks), or traces of distortion in the crystal structure. Inclusions normally have a greater impact on grade, value, beauty and durability than blemishes. The flawless diamonds are the most highly prized.
We encourage you to choose diamonds in the clarity range of Flawless to SI1, though naturally cost is influenced when purchasing a flawless diamond.
Diamond Carat
A carat is a term referring to the weight of a diamond. One carat is equal to 100 points of diamonds, so the weight of a half a carat is 50 points and quarter of a carat is 25 points. Studying the size of the hand can determine the size of the diamond. However, the desire of the wearer to have a certain size can override this.
We recommend that you go as big as you would like but not to compromise too much on the quality of the diamond with the cut, colour and clarity.
Quality and excellence are HIGHLY important to us.