Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced..

This is a picture of my 17DS with Diamond Cantilever on macro lens. 
Re-tipping this cartridge is a very bad idea and it will be inferior compared to the oiginal! Gemstone cantilever and nude diamond is one piece as you can see. SoundSmith can only drop a glue to fix his diamond on it, think about rigidity of this combination compared to the original @tketcham  

I know pictures can sometimes be deceiving but your cantilever looks much more hefty than my Karat D3 by the naked eye? Your stylus looks very sharp.

This is 17 DS version, pretty rare one, here you can read what is the difference between DS and conventional D versions.  

Here is an interview with Dr.Tominari of Dynavector Systems with a nice story about his Gemstone cantilever.  

@bill_k I’m not 100% sure, but some other manufacturers claimed their diamond cantilever/stylus is one piece of gemstone.

I can add few more pictures of my 17DS

Anyway, nude diamond is not glued on cantilever like retippers can do. It’s another story.

Not sure how many of you ever seen modern solid rod boron cantilevers and how the nude diamonds actually mounted on them? Expecially after re-tipping. You will see a huge amount of glue around the nude diamond, this is the only substance that hold the diamond. Laser mounting style and Hollow Pipe Boron cantilevers are no longed available for any cartridge manufacturers. 

If someone will glue a brand new stylus tip on Karat 17DS then you will see a huge amount of glue on the cantilever around the diamond, also the diamond can be totally different in shape/size.

As you can see there is no glue around the diamond on my original Karat 17DS.

I can’t see any glue on my Karat 23RS Ruby.

Those original Dyna diamond or ruby have much less glue even compared to the pressure-fitted Ortofon Replicant-100 diamond on my SPU Royal G mkII.

There is no visible amount of glue on Victor X-1II cart with Beryllium cantilever.

This is what i call a perfect stylus/cantilever combo.

Let me find a picture of re-tipped cartridge, you will be shocked