God touched tiny chunks of carbon, the same element that He used as a cornerstone to build all forms of life upon, and as the power surge arced from His finger to this little piece of coal, the tremendous heat organized the carbon atoms, under pressure, into a cubic, crystallized lattice structure. Some trapped other elements in trace amounts, within this lattice structure giving some diamonds a vivid color. Diamond; the hardest little stone known to man, as precious as they may be, would not be much to look at if it wasn’t also for the touch of man: The cut.
Maybe you have seen it depicted: A rough diamond, rolled around in the hand of a master diamond cutter, as he examines it for just the right place to touch with the edge of the chisel, before striking it with a wooden mallet; splitting the diamond. This is called: Cleaving. This splits the diamond along a natural plane the master cutters are able to see in the rough diamond. Yep, there is a robot for everything. The robot that cuts diamonds is called a Piermatic. It can only do up to a ½ carat diamond, so the rest, thankfully, are left to human artisans.
The fire that God injects into the diamond at the time of it’s creation, is up to the diamond cutter to bring out again. The diamond’s “fire” as it is called, is the light that is refracted by the precision cuts at the perfect angles and geometric sizes. As it bounces out of the diamond you get the “sparkle” that only this God/man creation can give, second in beauty only to the sparkle in you lover’s eyes.
The cuts are placed at angles off of the natural flat of the cleaved diamond. Diamond material is ground off by a wheel spinning at 5000 RPM. The wheel is impregnated metal, and diamond powder and olive oil are mixed and coat the wheel. As the diamond is held in and armature, sometimes glued in place, it is repeatedly touched to the grinding wheel at specific angles until the overall desired size of the facet is reached. This is the sawing process, or brutting, when it is rubbed against another diamond while held in a lathe chuck.
Angles of facets that are 90 degrees to the table, or face of the diamond will sparkle the red, yellow and orange colors. Other angles refract the cooler end of the color spectrum: blue, green, violet, and blue green. There is a clue to God’s touch on a diamond. Visible light is made up of a spectrum of wave lengths, giving us the seven different colors (three primary and four secondary) Light is made of seven colors. Seven frequencies of sound waves give us notes and music. Light refracted; like in a rainbow, God’s sign to Noah, or a diamond, God’s little treat for mankind, should remind us of Him. The diamond should also remind us of how we, God’s creation, are sometimes invited to put the finishing touches on the things he made.
