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Learn how to dop & transfer with epoxy.
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About Faceting Competition For the 100th Time Get GemCAD Software Get Gem Cut Studio Software Official USFG Rabbit Hole Design USFG Single Stone Competition 2024
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About Faceting Competition Navigating the Rabbit Hole
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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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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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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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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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More faceting questions from the Mail Bag: I am faceting an Aquamarine with optimized angles using your Catamaran design from 2003. However, using GemRay to optimize the angles for the best figure or Merit, the weight fraction gets reduced from .663 to .488 which is a large loss in yield. Neglecting the issue of yield,
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