MW’s Himalaya Tourmaline

This is the case of a medium-pale pink Tourmaline from the Himalaya Mine in California.
The provenance helped make this stone worth giving nice treatment, though it was small and had some flaws and inclusions.
This is the story of that stone’s path from rough to faceted gem.

The case study includes the following steps:

• White paper study
• Back lighting study
• Side lighting study
• Immersion with back & side lighting **
• Polariscope study for rough evaluation **
• Saw trimming with details
• Precision preforming with details
• Testing Hyper Edge lap
• Special tips for pencil / rectangle stones **
• Design to kill C axis and alter reflection pattern
• Polishing on Diamatrix lap & Voodoo Polish
• Transfer release with wax
• Testing Dreamer lap
• Polishing Table on Diamatrix with Voodoo
• Finished stone review of retained inclusion **
• Details about hiding retained inclusion **

Site members, view the second video below, with more complete details on the bolded items in the list above.