Watermelon Rise: Faceting Design Diagram
Successful tips and guide on Faceting Designs. A Faceting Design Diagram by Jeff R. Graham that presents various cuts, this one is called "Watermelon Rise".
Sunstone (Feldspar, Bytonite, Labradorite, Spectrolite, Orthoclase)
Watermelon Rise (SUN3.JRG)
By Jeff R. Graham
Copyright 2006
84.4% Light Return
Angles for R.I. = 1.54
55 facets + 12 facets on girdle = 67
1-fold, mirror-image symmetry
96 index
L/W = 1.000 T/W = 0.609 T/L = 0.609 P/W = 0.457
C/W = 0.165 H/W = (P+C)/W+0.02 = 0.643 P/H = 0.712 C/H = 0.257 Vol./W^3 = 0.218
PAVILION
CROWN
Addition # 11 - Cut in refractive indexes 1.54 to 2.14 with no changes. Depending on the color zones C5,C6 may be omitted and cut a larger table. This works very well in about any colored material but I designed it for pale watermelon.
Detailed faceting instructions by Jeff Graham available at The Rock Peddler
