Jednakże, nie wszystkie wydłużone kształty przedstawiają muszki. Efekt muszki jest problemem spowodowanym przez człowieka i pojawia się podczas cięcia diamentów. Czasem muszki nie da się uniknąć, bo szlifierz diamentów musiał uniknąć kolejnego, większego problemu w kamieniu, a czasem jest to po prostu wynik błędu.
It’s easy to think that cutters should simply not cut bowties in their diamonds but diamond cutting is complicated work and even the best diamond cutters aren’t perfect. Krótko mówiąc, here are the several main things that can result in a diamond bowtie:
A mistake – the cutter may have cut the diamond poorly with misaligned facets.
The cutter may feel forced to cut the diamond in such a way that it would result in a bowtie because the alternative is to cut too much rough off the diamond and reduce its carat weight excessively. Na koniec dnia, while every cutter wants to craft the most beautiful diamonds possible, this is a for-profit industry and the bigger the stone is, tym lepiej.
The cutter may have had to cut the diamond this way in order to avoid bigger inclusions. Diamond bowties are unsightly, especially when they are very pronounced but they are not the worst thing that can happen to a diamond