mk1 Posted January 18, 2012 Report Posted January 18, 2012 n68375 One of my other obsessions..... A little something I cut in my spare time.
mguerra Posted January 18, 2012 Report Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Faceting How do you learn to do that? Looks like a cool as hell hobby!
mk1 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Faceting It is something that can be self taught or learned at a local lapidary club, if you are so lucky to have one nearby. You would probably be very good at it. look around the following sites: www.gemologyonline.com especially the "lapidary corner" Also, the still up, but now out of business (Jeff Graham R.I.P. was a controversial fellow but a good cutter) www.faceters.com If you are still interested I will help you. I taught myself....from a book and with a few internet/email advisors.
Firemonkey Posted January 18, 2012 Report Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Faceting What material is that? At first i thought it was a chunk of smoke wood, and thought, man, it would be hard to toss that in the fire! now...be honest...how many of your minds initially processed the title of this topic title as face sitting
mk1 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Faceting face sitting....hehehe That is a pink tourmaline. Tourmaline comes in every shade of every color. When I get home tonight I will post some more stones. Some uncut ones as well. And the machine I use to cut them. My wife is a jeweller (besides running my practice and raising my kids....) we have quite a garage. Poor car sits in the driveway.
mk1 Posted January 18, 2012 Author Report Posted January 18, 2012 Re: Faceting Some from the archives.... I have been at this for 4-5 years now
mguerra Posted January 19, 2012 Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting Oh no, oh no, oh no, NHTIOD...
mk1 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting Oh no' date=' oh no, oh no, NHTIOD...[/quote'] I will bite. What is NHTOI?D
mk1 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting Milling machine for cutting waxes for jewelry
mk1 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting faceting machine for cutting stones
quedog Posted January 19, 2012 Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting Nice work, MK1, that pink tourmaline is awesome. I did some faceting several years ago and have some of Jeff's books. A little one came along about 9 years ago and things like faceting have moved to the back burner for the past few years. Maybe I will be able to pick them up again soon.
Paswesley Posted January 19, 2012 Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting @mk1: The stones are beautiful! What do you think of this 57,500 carat emerald? It will be auctioned off soon. See link below. Are you putting in a bid? Would it be more cost effective to divide this 25 pounder into smaller gems, or is it worth more as it is? http://www.ksby.com/news/giant-emerald- ... in-canada/
mguerra Posted January 19, 2012 Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting NHTIOD? See: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2994&hilit=NHTIOD Or search "NHTIOD"
mk1 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting Ah, I see..... And where do I get help for this? Is there a 12 step program? Or does Prozac help? And here I thought I was suffering alone
mk1 Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Posted January 19, 2012 Re: Faceting As far as the 25 pound emerald goes, it is hard to say without examining it closely. It may be poor enough quality(based on TV images) to be more of a collectors oddity. Or it may have large nearly clean gemmy areas that could have tremendous value when cut as medium to large high quality stones. Crummy emerald is common. Albeit not in 25 pound chunks!
mk1 Posted June 11, 2012 Author Report Posted June 11, 2012 Re: Faceting been a while...but have done some hobby stuff lately!
mguerra Posted June 12, 2012 Report Posted June 12, 2012 Re: Faceting I repeat myself: that is so cool! Seriously in danger of falling ill with NHTIOD. That's actually something I would do on a cold housebound day. But we only get one of those days a year here in Central Texas. 364 days I'm out cycling, fishing, golfing or flying. So maybe less risk.
Cookie Posted June 14, 2012 Report Posted June 14, 2012 Re: Faceting If the pink tourmaline is for sale, please PM me... I live in Asia, typically use one of two very good jewelers in Hong Kong, but that cut is pretty amazing...my wife would likey...although she just got a new ruby for our anniversary last week, so she really doesn't "need" anything right now...still, I know she'd like that one... The great thing about tourmalines is that they come in so many different colors...that is a shade of pink I've not seen before...very cool.
mk1 Posted June 14, 2013 Author Report Posted June 14, 2013 Re: Faceting My wife and I also make custom jewelry......
