When do I use brilliant cut, and when step cut?

Many jewelers don’t know the answer to this question. They think that if the center stone is brilliant cut or step cut then the side stones must be the same. This is not so. The same way you understand that a round stone (brilliant cut) can be set with tapered baguettes (step cut) on the side. So can you put step cut trapezoids on the side of a cushion cut. Depending on the taste and the look the customer likes.

Sruli Oster.

Director, American Fancies Sales Dept. 

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