Stefan Austermühle,

General Manager of Gemrock Peru 

I need to be clear straight from the start of this blog article. I am terribly picky about quality in hearts. Correctly done its just such a beautiful shape. And if one knows what’s possible it just pains the heart to see all these crappy and badly done so-called crystal hearts around.

This may sound arrogant, I understand. But bare with me for a second and read through this blog. I believe that you will come to the same conclusion like me: a lot of what’s out there for sale doesn´t actually deserve to be called a heart. And it could be so much better.

Let’s have a look at what I don’t like in a crystal heart:

Palm stones with a dent?

This kind of shapes I can see more and more often in the online sales. To me this is anything but a heart. Maybe “Triangle” would be the best name to call it. But it could also be a palmstone with a dent in it, who knows?

Apart of not having a heart shape at all, additionally its just too flat, which is why I do insist: its a palm stone.

Distorted triangles

One should never say “It cant get worse”, because it can. This is a real triangle now, a distorted one on top of it. 

Triangle Micro-dents on top

Clearly shows that this manufacturer did not bother about buying the right tools. He just grinded a triangular top dent into the heart using a wheel. To me that looks better than the previous examples, but cant qualify for good quality.

The Arrow-style heart

We start getting to a design that actually looks like a heart. But for my taste the shape is too straight towards the tip. Remembers me to an arrow point rather than a heart (but I said previously, I am just too picky)

If it wasn´t for the scratch….

This is actually looking like a heart. They made a nice upper cut and tried to make the upper curves round and smooth. The reason why we only find a few of these type of hearts in the market is, that its not that easy to make such a nice round upper cut with a straight diamond wheel. If you dont really know how to do it right it comes to what we see in this heart: the area of the upper cut gets all scratched.  So, yes – nice try.