ANSWER THIS ONE>>>>Are there real diamonds in a diamond cutter?
December 19th, 2008
WitsEnd asked:
My boyfriends, ahem, ex boyfreind is an electrician….he says that there’s real diamond mineral in a diamond cutter, but this can’t be true. I have lots of diamonds on my fingers & I know that a diamond is a mineral, so how can it be theses rare & expensive minerals are used to make builders tools?????
My boyfriends, ahem, ex boyfreind is an electrician….he says that there’s real diamond mineral in a diamond cutter, but this can’t be true. I have lots of diamonds on my fingers & I know that a diamond is a mineral, so how can it be theses rare & expensive minerals are used to make builders tools?????
Surely it’s called a diamond cutter because of it’s shape or something????????? Well
Who here has learnt about diamond cutters in school???????
I was wrong, I admit that
Entry Filed under: Diamonds
8 Comments
1. bec0688 | December 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
some of them do have diamonds in them. but they are ground into a kind of “diamond dust”.
2. gizmoe | December 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
Of coase it’s diamond, it just isn’t the same grade!
3. Mark C | December 24th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Sorry, but small diamonds are glued on and extend the life of the blade. Industrial diamonds are never used for jewelry.
4. JickyJack | December 25th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Yes! However these diamonds are of a commercial or industrial grade used to cut through harder objects, steel etc. You need a WHOLE bunch of these diamonds to have any thing of value.
5. TOMMY | December 27th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
yes only a diamond can cut a diamond so yes .
6. Da_Bears70 | December 31st, 2008 at 7:24 am
yes
those diamonds are very small and therefore not near as expensive as the larger ones you wear on your spoiled little fingers
7. kevrob8008 | January 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 am
Good Lord, does anyone here actually KNOW what a diamond blade is?
The diamonds in the diamond blade are man-made, very inexpensive. They can mass-produce them now, just about as hard as the real thing, maybe harder.
They aren’t natural diamonds, and they are NOT ‘glued’ on — they are embedded in the metal.
Watch the History Channel — believe it was a show on concrete (uncertain — might have been diamond mining — too long since I watched), discussing cutting techniques and how the development of man-made diamonds (for cutters) changed the concrete/masonry construction industries.
Please don’t post answers if it’s incorrect info, too misleading. If you don’t know, then admit you don’t know. At least that way we know you’re just trying to help and aren’t sure, so it gives all of us a research line to work with.
And by the way, jewelers cut real diamonds from rough into their final faceted form with METAL tools — how do you think the first diamonds were ever cut? And today they have lasers strong enough to burn serial numbers into the diamonds.
[my comments are NOT directed toward the asker]
8. fuzzykjun | January 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
he is right!! small diamonds and diamond dust has been used for decades on tools and many other ways,, not just for jewelry!! all those diamond coated saws you see on TV do have reall diamond dust on them!! where have you been since you where born?? not in school!!