Will it Fit?
The fundamentals of L/W, P/W, C/W: Topaz: Finding the Cleavage & Orienting
Beginner Stuff
Postings in this category are for the newer faceter, and open to the public.
Learn to Dop and Transfer with Epoxy
Learn how to dop & transfer with epoxy.
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About Faceting Competition
For the 100th Time Navigating the Rabbit Hole
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For the One-Hundredth Time
About Faceting Competition Navigating the Rabbit Hole
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Paths to Excellence
Although I don’t do competition faceting, people often ask how they can improve the things on which competitions are judged, mainly meets and polish. What I think they’re really asking for is a map of the pathway to excellence. We get good at whatever we measure. So, the first step is to define what “excellence”
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Tucson Show Report 2014
Welcome to the Tucson Show Report 2014, and our sharing of the adventure and my take on the event, the locations, the market, and more. Hope you enjoy. This year, we went even earlier than usual, and took advantage of the “quiet before the storm” that is usually the Tucson crowd. Only this year, that
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Top Ten Tucson Tips & Tools!
It’s that time of year again – to get knee-deep in rough precious stones and cutting art from every corner of the planet. To get down and swim in it. To see more crystals and sparkling stones and rough than I thought was in the world – before I first went to Tucson. Every year,
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Private Faceting Instruction
Another faceting question from the Mail Bag: Do you do any one on one facet instruction? – Joseph Hi, Joseph, Thanks for asking. I can do one-on-one coaching for people to learn faceting. But, for two reasons, I don’t do much of it: Learning to facet is pretty time-consuming. People who attend the Resident Training
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Mail Bag: Rolled Girdles?
More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: I enjoyed the videos. I just knocked a small Sunstone off the dop while working on the crown, and superglued it back into the molded epoxy. Like you superglued into the dop wax mold in your video. I believe that alone was worth the price. And I intend
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Mail Bag: Which Faceting Machine?
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 and cut precisely? I don’t want to spend a fortune so any advice would be
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