Everyone who has come through the Faceting Academy doors has heard the stories. About the appraiser whose mentoring set the cornerstone of my approach to faceting as: “maximizing the tradable value in every rough”. By now, I think some might suspect he was myth I created to anchor certain ideas in the minds of students.
But the stories are all true …
In 2010, I started a video project of interview sessions with people who had influenced my approach to faceting – starting with Reggie Olson. But, life happened, I got sidetracked, and the video files became lost in a hard drive crash. And, in 2018, the man, my friend and treasured mentor, was himself gone.
In March, 2023, while cleaning up a stack of old hard drives, I found unknown backup copies of the interviews with Reggie. The contents of those conversations will be on this page – some publicly available, and some reserved to site supporters and registered students.
The conversations will cover:
Who is Reggie?
About Appraisals …
State of the Colored Stone Industry
(for members:)
Advice to Faceters (what to change / improve)
Pricing Custom Stones & Making Sales
Perception of Value & How to Create it
Introducing Reggie Olson
About Appraisals
State of the Colored Stone Industry
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