• Lower quality cuts are easy to spot, because you can
see lighter colors, and ‘Windows’ within the gem. Windows
refer to the ‘Opening of facets’ within the gemstone,
making it difficult for colors to bounce off the facets
within the gem, and allowing light to pass right through
exhibiting little brilliance. Fewer windows equals more
color intensity; the perfect faceted gemstone shows no ‘Windows’ at all.
• Badly angled facets allow light to pass straight
through the gem or to be deviated to the side. Optimum
facets, accurately cut will make light travel back towards
the viewer looking directly into the table facet. The
table facet is the upper most surface of a gem to look
into it you must look directly into the gem from above.
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