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Education and Training Area

543 – Materiais

Upcoming Trainings:

20, 21, 22, 23, 24 ofFebruary 2023

Goal:

-The course aims to enable trainees to cut Diamondsin the brilliant cut with grade ofexcellence  through the main techniquesicing and cutting instruments, without supervision or assistance.

Recipients:

- General public namely jewelers, goldsmiths, geologists andprecious stones, other stakeholders in the sector.

Access Conditions:

- Frequency ofDiamonds and Rough and Lapidated and Fancy Course 

Duration:

35 Hours - (Initial learning course)

Advanced Expert Course:

6 to 12 months - Budget under. Query

Possibility of customized duration intervals,  until the apprenticeship program has been completed.

Schedules:

- Work 10:00h - 18:00h

Coordination and Management:

Prof. Antonio Lino | Eng.

Trainers:

Sergio Garcia | Master Lapidary DIALAP

Pedro Garcia | cutter

Certifications:

-Institutional Diploma

-Certificate of Professional Training

Household:

GemsValue

Training Center and Gemological Laboratory 

Rua Pascoal de Melo Nº7 2nd FTE Left

1000-230 Lisbon-Portugal

GPS 38.73121,-9.13557

Investment:

Value: 3.900.00 euros

 

 

Theoretical-Practical:

- Adaptation to the Lapidary loupe;

- Knowledgeof Tools and the care to be taken with them;

- Books, Software and copies; 

- Brilliant and other important cuts

- Route of the Rough Diamond – Cutting Phases

Notion of the need to prroe in diamonds;

- Creation of Lapidary factory

- International graduation labs and graduation criteria and Triple X diamond Reports

Practices:

- Planning / Planning: study of diamond optimization, use of Sarine software, marking of cutting planes and observation windows;

- Cutting: traditional saws and CNC Laser Green Diamond Cutting Machine;

- Pre Thinning Waist / Initial Bruting;

- Preparation / Blocking: work of the 8 main crown facets and 8 breech facets that occur in different directions due to the atomic structure of thethe Diamond;

- Waist thinning / final bruting: traditional lathes and Bruting Diamond Machine MEC;

- Adaptation to the cutting plate;

- Faceting and Polishing transformation into Brilliant cutting / Brillianteering: working with new facets

(Pavilion 8 fundamental facets + 16 lower half facets)

(Crown 8 fundamental facets + 8 stars + 16 upper half facets)

- Quality Control of the cut: verification of proportions, symmetry and polishing: traditional method and application of Sarine.

 


 

CUTTING COURSE
OF DIAMONDS | CUTTING AND POLISHING

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