{"id":32,"date":"2007-05-29T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T07:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondsandopals.com\/blog\/very-thin-girdles\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:45:59","slug":"very-thin-girdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/very-thin-girdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Thin Girdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GIA will give any round diamond a maximum cut grade of &#8220;Very Good&#8221; to a diamond with a &#8220;Very Thin&#8221; girdle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The girdle is the middle part of the diamond between the crown and pavilion. It doesn&#8217;t affect the light return of a diamond, unless it is &#8220;unusual&#8221;, and a smaller girdle, usually means a bigger spread &#8211; which leads to a diamond looking a lot bigger.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Diamond Diagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/images\/diamond-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Diagram\" width=\"362\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very thin or extremely thin girdle will be more prone to chipping, especially if the crown angles are shallow. Therefore the durability of the diamond is weakened, hence the &#8220;Very Good&#8221; grade.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst buying a diamond with a very thin girdle may seem to be an attractive proposition &#8211; a bigger spread and cheaper price due to a lower grade, one must consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How big the crown angles are.<\/li>\n<li>The setting &#8211; for example, a pendant may be less prone to force on the sides.<\/li>\n<li>Whether you trust the setter not to chip it. Remember, a setter may only be paid $20 or so to set your diamond, and the risk of setting a diamond with a very thin girdle seems disproportionate to how much they are getting paid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GIA will give any round diamond a maximum cut grade of &#8220;Very Good&#8221; to a diamond with a &#8220;Very Thin&#8221; girdle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diamonds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}