Community for discussing faceting and gemstones.
If you are a cutter, show off your work, provide tips and tricks or ask for advice.
If you donβt cut stones, feel free to ask questions!
No selling of stones, rough or anything else. You can however post links to vendors that you recommend.
My son has really started to get into faceting. He bought a boule of hydrothermal emerald(man made) as he wanted to cut a design he made specific to emerald.
He sliced the emerald in half and gave me one half while he cut his up into the sizes he was going to facet.
I was mostly hands off with this and only really helped out when his stone popped off the dop. He did a great job!
Your son is quite talented! How much longer until you have to buy him his own machine? π
He's already planning and budgeting for his own machine. π He also has a friend who has asked him to cut something for a girlfriend... What's really funny about this, is that a few years back he didn't think this hobby was at all interesting.
Cracking job, love the colour