The cut
Inside the Colombo lapidary
The cut decides what a stone finally looks like on a hand, so it is the part we would rather be judged on.
Rough to certificate, at the wheel
Cutting to hold colour
Ceylon rough is often light. A stone cut for weight goes pale, while a stone cut for colour stays royal blue face up. Our cutters work to the colour, which costs carats and earns the difference in price.
Matching at the wheel
Pairs and suites are matched while they are still being cut, across colour, tone, outline and crown height together. Matching after the fact is why so many so called pairs never sit right in a finished earring.
Calibrated programme
Standard millimetre sizes, cut to a stated tolerance and repeatable batch to batch, for houses running production lines. Tell us the size and the volume and we will quote a schedule.
Custom cutting and recutting
Send a brief: a shape, a window of dimensions, a colour target. Or send a stone that was cut badly the first time. Both are ordinary work here.
Shapes cut in house
What we will tell you about a stone
- Item ID, carat, shape and exact millimetre dimensions
- Colour description, and where it sits against the trade names
- Treatment status, in full
- Origin, to the field where we know it
- Which laboratory can certify it, and how quickly
Schooling at the wheel
Six days with a master cutter
In August 2026 the founder spent six days at the wheel with Mr. Sarath: close to thirty five years of cutting behind him, and a name the leading coloured stone traders know well. Among the names he works with is the gem trader and collector Vladyslav Yavorskyy.
The subject was weight. Reading a piece of rough, orienting it, and planning a cut that holds carats without letting the colour or the proportions go. It is the exact discipline this page describes. His work is on Facebook.
