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Handpiece faceting machines trace their roots to late-14th-century diamond-cutting tools. While diamond-cutting handpieces evolved steadily into modern designs, colored-stone handpieces experienced cycles of popularity and decline. Today, handpieces are the least common gem-cutting machines, used primarily in Sri Lanka and to a lesser extent in the Czech Republic, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Russia—and occasionally in the United States.
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