Fun project this week

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Damaged Rayan

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Tourmaline concave cut

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22016

The process of cutting a 4.52ct lab created sapphire cushion cut!

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Teal Montana Sapphire photographed in daylight

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I just made a ring with LuAG -- lutetium aluminum garnet, and sapphires grown for use in lasers! All three stones glow under UV light!

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Red Cubic Zirconia "Pixel Cut"

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Gemstones I cut this past week on my old Raytech-Shaw hand faceter.  Still learning, but I love this hobby so much!

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Facetime

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Lemon Quartz Portuguese Cut (10mm, 3.125ct)

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The process of cutting a lab created sapphire into a trillion cut!

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Synthetic Ruby Pendant and Earrings set

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Diamond, Jewel, and Gem Cut Line Drawings

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2005

The process of faceting a lab created padparadscha sapphire into a finished gem!

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The process of faceting a lab alexandrite from rough to finished stone!

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Voltolini's Bumblebee cut (4th gemstone)

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Faceting

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Amethyst, Alpha Round Brilliant Cut (Jeff Graham, 3rd Gemstone)

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Natural Blue Sapphire (No Treatments) 3.03ct small color patch

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Blue Sapphire 4.35ct (Vioetish Blue)

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3ct Hot pink Sapphire

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Swiss Blue Topaz 700ct+

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Natural Blue Sapphire (Heated) 1.56ct

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Star sapphire collection

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Tourmaline Collection

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Natural Star Ruby

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Ceylon Blue Sapphire Color 01 - 1.48ct

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Peridot from Pakistan using Ultra Tec Fantasy machine and V5 faceting machine!

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Perty purple!

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My mom facets stones! She does so much cool stuff!!

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Perfect cleavage. Hmm what could it be? Its not quarts. Colorless zoisite? Tourmaline? Topaz? It almost feels isometric

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Paraiba tourmaline recut!

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Rubellite Tourmaline shiny!

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2.3 ct Zircon recut for jeweler

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Commission cut - Amethyst (Canadian)

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Topaz recut for jeweler!

2008

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6.24ct heat treated blue sapphire (10mm), anyone can guess the price?

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Peach Color Zircon 12.54ct

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Yah it had perfect cleavage and is brittle but very hard 7.5+ next post will have tested with ruby

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Process of faceting a natural green Montana Sapphire

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Ethiopian Emerald 0.93ct

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Ceylon Natural Violet sapphire

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1973

1.04 ct Peacock Green Montana Sapphire precision cut in my home studio in Missoula, Montana. It turned out amazing!

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Christmas present for Mom - late post rhodolite garnet

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Faceting Amethyst

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Topaz with concave cuts, 22.96ct

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13382

Yellow tourmaline

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1369

Citrine round brilliant

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Ethiopian opal step cut gem

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2283

Rhodolite garnet SRB

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1109

Simple Heart cut

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1218

Portuguese cuts in amethyst and lemon quartz

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I cut a lab created ruby for a client, and they asked me to take process pictures for them. So here's how their gemstone developed.

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Golden Scapolite

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flawless princess cut Garnet

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Some of my recent work...

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You asked for the d20 gemstone. Know it’s in work!

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Before and after

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Neon Quartz Aphex cut set in white gold

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New Skills

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