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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 28508, member: 25&quot;]Mostly you don&#039;t cut them. You take a little chisel and after careful study,you hit the diamond and break a bit off. Then you use diamond dust to polish the face.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things are very hard, but they can also be very brittle, especially if they are crystals, which have fracture planes, and that&#039;s the point your physicist should have remembered. Who has not seen a diamond ring with a chipped stone in it. Hit them right and they&#039;ll shatter.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me, as an afterthought, that given the frail looking old mounts on that piece, there was a chance of the mount breaking and the diamond whizzing into the distance, and also the chance of a slip grinding the mount or frame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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