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More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: I have been looking at the Graves Mark I and noticed you use a Facetron. What is your opinion of the right machine for a newbie that will allow me to use gemcad … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: Like your site Someone asked you about pricing and you did the usual dance around it, as you should! But please post something about earnings, since no one mentions what part-times or full-times … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: Recently I have had some interest from a local jeweler in purchasing some of my faceting work. To date I have only sold a few stones to friends/family and I was using the … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

I’m happy to announce that the UKFCG (United Kingdom Facet Cutters’ Guild) has an official US presence now (Me). For some time, I’ve been telling American Faceters that the UK Guild offers a very top-quality newsletter, as well as some … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: I have a quick couple of questions I hope you have time to answer for me. My bother-in-law brought back some Australian opal from his six month trip in Australia. Some of the … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

This just in from the mail bag: Please advise the best sequence for cutting and polishing. Should one do all of the cutting, pre-polishing and polishing on each facet row before moving on to the next row or polish in … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

This question came in from one of the Mentoring Program members this week: Many of them (jewelers) dislike faceted girdles, because those hard sharp edges make setting the stone difficult, especially with Sunstone. I think this is true, if the … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

This is just in from the mail bag: I can't thank you enough for recommending the 600 cutting lap and BA5T to pre-polish with 3,000 diamond powder and then to use the BA5T for the final polish with 50,000 mesh … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

This just in from the e-mail bag: I started to facet this piece of Sunstone yesterday and  when I used the 600 lap this strange surface appeared on this particular facet and it wouldn’t polish away, any idea what or … Continue reading →

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Offered by The Faceting Academy - Learn to facet precious gemstones!

I just received another e-mail from someone asking about re-cutting a native-cut stone. Someone apparently offered to re-cut the stone, and: "it would likely only need the pavilion facets straightened out, and the the bulges removed from underneath ... so … Continue reading →

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