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It is difficult to imagine how this becomes this.
It takes years of experience to figure out
how to get the most valuable gem or gems
from each piece of rough.
It's a process that generally includes sawing and grinding
larger rough to produce smaller, cleaner pieces.
Now this big piece is a very big stone.
For its usability, we have decided
we have to cut it into two pieces,
so that it can be made into a polished tumbled pair.
Why tumbled, because the structure of the stone,
the make of the stone, is as such that we cannot make
into any other things.
For example, drops or drops pair, or almond shaped pair,
we cannot make out of it.
And also, we cannot make the cut stone out of it,
because it has got many inclusion, like white spots.
The color inside is in layers, that's why we cannot make it
a cut stone, a faceted stone.
So we have decided that we cut into the pieces,
and make it a tumbled polished piece.
So anyone can use as a pair for the earring.
That's why I am putting a mark upon it
at the center of the stone, and try to make a tumbled pair.
It's quite possible after cutting,
we might not get a pair.
Just because here, there is a gap.
The length and breadth of the stone is somewhat uneven.
So now after cutting, we will try
to make-- so that the structure of both stones
will be the same.
There will be a weight loss, I know.
There will be a weight loss, but I have to make a weight loss,
so that I can make the shape equal.
After some shaping, they decide to saw off thin sections
to even up the pieces.
Things don't always go as planned, however.
After sawing and more preforming,
they notice that one of the pieces
is less brilliant than the other.
As I told them, I will make a pair of that stone which
I marked and cut it.
But in the meantime, when I sent it
for the cleaning and preforming process,
I got to know that the stones are coming out different.
One is becoming more lustrous, and one
is becoming with less luster.
So at this moment, I think I have
to change my previous decision to make it a pair.
Just because it has a good luster, and the luster of this
has come down.
So i have to make this with some other pair,
and this I will probably make into a cabochon.
But gem cutting is a process.
After closer examination of the third piece of rough,
and further consultation between the two
partners and the preformer, they decide the differences
between the two smaller stones are minor,
and return to their original plan to make them a pair,
with the third larger stone as the center stone.
After this stone was cleaned and it
was going towards the shaping of it,
we partners decide-- saw the stones,
and we thought that, yeah, there are differences
between these two stones.
But this will go, in pair.
If we make pair, this will go.
Actually these three stones are from the same stone,
so we saw that this stone can also go with this.
So we planned that make this as a pair,
and this is the center stone.
So though the luster is not equal,
but the color and quality is nearly the same.
So we decided that we stuck to the previous decision
of making a pair, and also adding
this stone as a centerpiece.
Fashioning these emeralds as tumbled gems
produced a matching set, with the rich green color
that makes emerald one of the most highly prized gemstones.
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