A Look at Cutting Gemstones (A Postscript to the Tiffany Diamond Feather Saga)

Someone asked me why we keep cutting big important gemstones over time, making them ever smaller. I didn't have a good ready answer so I did some homework.
Link to full Tiffany Diamond Feather project: thetiffanydiam...
Link to Justin K. Prim's KZbin channel: / justinkprim

[@bulldogklaus47]

Professor Bird: Over the course of the last month, I've watched every single video you've posted to this channel. I am neither a designer nor a student of design but have found each lecture indescribably captivating. It's baffling how you've made content such as this available for free but I am immensely grateful that you have. The way you've distilled such extensive research into presentations which even those outside the profession can appreciate is truly remarkable. Had I been exposed to this material in my undergraduate studies, I may well have chosen a different profession. Many thanks from a new admirer.

[@OsUltraBug]

Absolutely incredible professor. At this point I've finished binge watching all of the videos on this channel from the last year and a half. I'm not a design student but merely someone interested in design and specially industrial design. Your passion and effort put into these lectures on youtube is insane and I wish I had as good of professors in university as your students do. Your work deserves more recognition and I hope that through KZbin you might still be able to afford a couple of Ross Lovegrove's MUON KEF speakers. Thank you very much for continuing to educate the new generation with such beautiful and cativating presentations.

[@ShowandTellknitting]

The engineer in me is fascinated by the machinery you've shown at 27:15. Simply astonishing what great minds can think up. As usual, an intriguing burst of information, Matthew Bird!

[@bthedwards]

Another fab video - thank you!!

[@ClearArtInternational]

Thank you very much.

[@glitteresque]

Thank you so much for your great content.

[@ammiller3911]

A feast for the eyes and mind! I wish I had professors like you when I was in college 15 years ago. Mine had 100 page bullet projections with a zillion words and 1 picture and voices like vacuum cleaners.

[@horace146]

Fantastically good channel. What a find.

[@candybox5360]

Oh my. "Smear new technologies". That's a quote for the ages. And considering we are inside the foyer of our own mass extinction event, it's a bit late for that sentiment. If we could have learned that lesson a century ago , or even 50 years ago. 💋

[@dacuzbuzz]

Terrific research and topic!

[@soniashapiro4827]

Thanks for posting videos on KZbin. They're wonderful.

[@urbansalvation4410]

Hi Prof, can u teach about this topic about design and culture. how design even started, how culture move/shape the design world, how design have shape culture and improve the world. basically the who big bang. Love your work. big fan from Singapore.

[@jeffreymontgomery4091]

I love alot of the rectangular shaped cuts. That Kimberly Diamond had me drooling. I also love those truly rectangular pieces, with the longer ones being called bars....

[@jamesboekbinder3967]

As always, rich, extremely well-presented and thought-provoking. The why behind the work gives a whole new perspective on it.

[@0therun1t21]

I'm so happy I found you, subscribed! I'm about to fall asleep so I just dropped by to tell you how much I love your channel. I will be back asap! ...I shouldn't have looked up at the video, wide awake now. Ugh discipline, I have to sleep, I will be back! ...And I'm back! (I watch ads because I can't afford anything else, btw). I'm in awe of the technology and minds that made the all diamond rings possible, you also told me why I've never seen a jamb peg before. I learned a more than that just now.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Should have mentioned that Paltrow got fined for her healing yoni egg scam.

[@itsdavidsantana]

I so appreciate all your marvelously curated content 🙏

[@bertdion44]

Thank you,, very nice and interesting!!

[@lisad1993]

"The smear of technology"

[@FrankTichnor-un4td]

Tanzanite

[@katrussell6819]

What is Paste? I mean in jewelry. Glass? Or early resin?

[@HistoryofID]

The name is confusing, for sure! It is glass. Cast into the shape of a gemstone and then polished, or cut and polished.

[@TonyBologna5]

LOVE IT!

[@fritzg2475]

Professor, you mentioned your instagram but I cant find it, There are many people that share your name.

[@HistoryofID]

So sorry!!! I am @Pasigraphy there.

[@fritzg2475]

@@HistoryofID Got it! I am abitare_designconstruction

[@fritzg2475]

@@HistoryofID I have rediscovered what I learned in architecture school i the 80's and discovered even more!

[@jackofsuit]

Always love your videos.

[@Opal_Spectrum]

'cutting' stones was 1 of the earliest skills of 'modern 'humans' and go back 100000 years.

[@patappleton6285]

Hey Prof, where does one draw the line between being inspired and merely stealing some dead designers design ? So what happens, you create a unique desk designed out of eliminating clutter, e.g I sit at an 8 foot long table with so much clutter I can't draw so the junk on the table gets put on a chair which gives me the idea: have a lower and upper level of the 8' long table so I keep the clutter at arms length yet have a clear space to draw on A3 size paper. But then what happens if Paul Frankl's great, great grand kids want to kill me for plagiarism cause he thought of it 200 years ago. Do we have to develop a square wheel because someone else designed the round ones ???

[@canadiangemstones7636]

There is very, very little that is new. Zero chance of somebody suing you for building a table! (Unless you put a a Marvel or Disney character on it and sell it.)

[@pistolannie6500]

Just a little correction on some Inaccurate information u gave. In all the instructions God gave Noah....taking gemstones aboard The Ark....is NOT... mentioned ANYWHERE in The Bible! God sent ANGELS aboard The Ark w/Noah and His family...THEY provided the Needed LIGHT, calming of the animals, & keeping Noah's family safe. Noah had No need for the jewels. They would have been mere useless stones to them.

[@HistoryofID]

Right you are! The bible merely mentions an opening (a window). It is in the Talmud that stones are described. Also sometimes translated as window, and even as just plain old noon. Language is so flexible....

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Lol who takes silly old fairytales so seriously?