Egg cuts
A facetted gem the size of a hen's egg is often used in fiction as a description of a gemstone of imense value.
Hence many have tried cutting egg shaped gemstones. Both round and facetted style.
The Smithsonian in Washington DC has a 7478 carat big quartz egg
with 240 facets on display.
But many have cut
smaller eggs with great results
Here is a small collection of some of these cuts. Some are online available, others must be bought or lend.
Cut | By | Date | Remarks |
In the
following, the pictures are screen dumps from either GemCad or
GemCutStudio showing the outline of the design. Designs with a Dvue number is available from facetdiagrams.org as long as they are open. On Facetdiagrams.org there are several designs listed with an egg shaped girdle outline. But they still have the traditional pointed pavillon and crown with table - or checkered. I don't count them in this overview. |
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Step Cut Egg's |
Jón Olaf Svane | 2012 | One example done in the step style. The step cut is easily modified to your requirements |
Portuguise style Egg's |
Jón Olaf Svane | 2012 | One example done in the portuguise style. This is fairly easily modified to your requirements |
Sumner Olsen Egg I |
Sumner Olsen | Sumner Olsen had a webpage, where he displayed his facetted Eggs - 14 most beautyfull
gems generally quartzes. The page now is gone. He also gave 2 recipies for eggs he'd cut. |
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Sumner Olsen Egg II |
Sumner Olsen | The second design Sumner Olsen offered on his webpage. | |
Egg And I |
Larry Grillet | This design I once picked up from the web. | |
Twister Egg |
Jeff Ford | Nov. 3. 2002 | From USFG Faceterslist Yahoo Group |
Silicon Egg |
Jón Olaf Svane | Oct. 17. 2015 | From Picture of Jeff Ford's Silicon Sphere on USFG Faceterslist Yahoo Group |
Rose Egg 480a-80 |
Bob Keller | 1999 | On USFG weppage they have a Design page where Bob has
several more or less ostentaciuos Egg designs for download. Bob also maintains his "Bob's Rockshop" which occasionally isn't accessible, where his designs also are available. This is one build of triangular facets in a Rose cut style with "only" 480 facets. Another (Rose Egg 624a-96) has 624 facets. |
Rose Bead 224a-96 |
Bob Keller | 1999 | On "Bobs Rockshop", Bob has several more of these more or less ostentaciuos Egg designs
for download. This one build also of triangular facets split vertically in a Rose cut style with "only" 224 facets. Another (Rose Egg 480c-64) has 480 facets where every second triangle in each tier is vertically split in 2 triangles. |
Royal Egg |
Jim Summers | From New Mexico Facetor, Nov 92 and Angles, Nov 92 p7. | Done in the style of Sumner's Egg I, but almost twice as many facets (769). |
Sunburst Egg |
Jim Spence | Originally from Seattle Faceting Design, Aug 94. Facetdiagrams.org# PC01.526 | An intirely different design, but the original is close to a sphere. |
Quartz Egg |
David P. Hartley | Lapidary Journal, November, 1968. | Modification of Sumner Olsen's Egg I, but each tier is not directly between the previous. |
Eggscalibur |
Jerry L. Capps | Lapidary Journal, Downloadable Projects, as downloaded June 2002 | |
Eggscentric |
Jerry L. Capps | Lapidary Journal, Downloadable Projects, as downloaded June 2002 | |
Eggson |
Jerry L. Capps | Lapidary Journal, Downloadable Projects, as downloaded June 2002 | |
FacetDesigner Egg |
Anton V. Vasiliev | May 30th 2004 | Part of design package with FacetDesigner program downloadable from www.polymetric.com |
In DataVue2 - and now Facetdigrams.org - list several Egg designs. | |||
Bucky Easter Egg |
Robert Strickland | Facets, May 1993, P4 | Facetdiagrams.org# PC01.498 |
Egg 96 |
Robert Strickland | Unpublished, Feb. 6. 2014 | Facetdiagrams.org# PC01.633 |
Egg 96 B |
Robert Strickland | Unpublished, Feb. 8. 2014 | Facetdiagrams.org# PC01.634 |
Egg Over Easy |
Robert Strickland | Unpublished, Feb 9. 2014 | Facetdiagrams.org# PC45.121 |
Easy Egg |
Wes Korman | Facets, June 75, p5. | Facetdiagrams.org# pc01.132 |
Opdateret March 11th 2019