When you have yowza-wowza cabochon material, you want it cut into a really yowza gem and put into equally wowza jewelry. Which pretty much means you need to design and construct custom stone settings for these stones one at a time, because no two are quite the same. Its facets precisely directing light inside and out to maximize a transparent gemstone’s spark and sparkle potential, a faceted gem is usually highly symmetric. Faceted stones are also likely to be calibrated into standard sizes and shapes. The most dramatic translucent or opaque cabochons, by contrast, are cut to display their visually…
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