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 historical and training materials that are of very good value. Flattery has apparently earned me an honorary title as well as giving me the honor of hosting some of their quality content for FREE.
I’ve just uploaded five representative articles to the new UKFCG page that we’re hosting for them, so please check out the content, and then become a member so you get the full magazine. I also recommend the training manual and the back issues of StoneChat as well. A great library for any level Faceter, for a very reasonable investment. (I do NOT receive consideration for promoting these things – I just sincerely believe them to be good.)
I’m finally getting caught up after a very wild first half of year, which saw the passing of my best friend and business partner, Ken Newnham. Ken’s son, Chuck is now running the Juniper Ridge Fire Opal mine, and fee digs are still on. They are producing some very nice material up there this year, and I recommend you go there if you can.
Lots of interesting and great things coming down very soon. I’m about to schedule an important conference call for members of the Mentoring group – including some new business fast-track tools and techniques that offer AMAZINGly fast and easy sales opportunities and immediate cash flow for anyone who works it right – even if you don’t have a good inventory of stones yet.
More coming soon!