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Frank[_13_]

On 12/12/2010 12:24 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:58:18 -0500,
wrote:

On 12/12/2010 1:49 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:40:07 -0500, Tony Miklos
wrote:

I'm wondering if the cost of diamond tipped blades and bits may rise in
the near future. One of the biggest fastest growing fad in jewelry is
"chocolate" and "black" diamonds. In the past most all brown and black
diamonds ended up on tools. Now they are getting good money for them in
jewelry stores.

Actually most of the diamond tipped tools people here use are often made
out of such small "scraps" of diamonds that maybe there won't be a
difference. But in heavy industrial applications that use sizable
diamonds to cut with could find some real competition with jewelers.

There never has been a shortage of diamonds. The "gem grade" are just
price controlled by the company that sells 99.9% of them.

Plus, I believe, lot of industrial diamonds are man made.

Gem quality can be manufactured, cheaply, too. Their only "flaw" is that
they're too perfect. It's scaring the crap out of DeBeers. They're trying to
force manufacturers to mark the diamonds as such. DeBeers is about the
sleaziest business on the planet. I've been boycotting them for decades. ;-)

I wasn't sure of the quality but knew industrial grades were cheap to
make. GE scientist told somebody I knew that they could make diamonds
out of any carbon source, even peanut butter.

There's still a lot of cutting and faceting involved in jewelry so it
will never be dirt cheap.

It would be funny if someone made diamonds out of carbon dioxide and
touted them as good for the environment because they reduced pollution.
DeBeers would have a **** fit