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Sounds like I'd work. I actaully have a few recipes that tell you to cut in diamond cuts.

Wouldn't that leave you with diamond-shaped rings? Because if you were to think of it in a linear way, 2 passes with the wires in opposite directions would yield diamond-shaped rods. (doing it in a pot with the using a knife that reaches the center would be this scenario--linear diamond-shaped rods--with the ends connected). You would still have to make some kind of vertical cuts.

I think It would work well if you have a narrower one like Wayne's, except with diagonal wires. Then you would have to make passes perpendicular to each other across the plane made by the top of the curd.

I think this is making sense to me... I hope this is making sense to someone other than me too... Can anyone else visualize this?

I get it, Mark. Good visualizing.

I see what your saying. That would happen if you cut in a circle. You would have to turn the cutter to go north and south then east and west for example to get diamonds. I am using a retangular shaped pot so that would make it easier I guess.

Yes, and actually, I was thinking the chafing dish you use would be good with the square I proposed earlier in this thread. (the one where the handle moves 90 degrees to make a knife that cuts in both planes). That way there aren't vertical cuts in with the diamond cuts. It's the only drawback with the diagonal-wired idea as far as I can tell. Not that it is a major issue.

I actuall started one last spring that fir in my chaffing dish in both directions but got side tacked for about 6 months due to family emergencies and darned if I know where I put the thing. I know it was that safe place I can never find again. 

After I went and bought a rectangular 40 liter pan to use Wayne's style curd knife, I see Nitai's round idea.
If the round part were woven like I did my mill, and horizontal wires on the uppers, 1 push down and 1 twist, all curds would be cut nicely!

Looks good to me!