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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 211483" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Did my first partial step cut last night, a "Squaretugese". The finished stone is not all what it should be but it looks very nice nonetheless. </p><p></p><p>I've never attempted a step cut before simply because the look of a full step cut just didn't appeal to me all that much. But a step crown with a non-step pavilion can look fantastic!</p><p></p><p>But the confusing thing for which I can find no instructions - when we cut the steps, do we simply <em>estimate</em> the width of each step and cut it accordingly? There are no obvious points to cut to that I can see, the only ones left a second tier ridiculously wider than the first. So I just ended up matching them up by eye. Is this how we are supposed to space steps in a step cut?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 211483, member: 2976"] Did my first partial step cut last night, a "Squaretugese". The finished stone is not all what it should be but it looks very nice nonetheless. I've never attempted a step cut before simply because the look of a full step cut just didn't appeal to me all that much. But a step crown with a non-step pavilion can look fantastic! But the confusing thing for which I can find no instructions - when we cut the steps, do we simply [i]estimate[/i] the width of each step and cut it accordingly? There are no obvious points to cut to that I can see, the only ones left a second tier ridiculously wider than the first. So I just ended up matching them up by eye. Is this how we are supposed to space steps in a step cut? [/QUOTE]
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