Faceting

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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 don’t 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.

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Thread: Faceting Resources (self.faceting)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Crylos to c/faceting

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Let's post links and descriptions of our favorite resources and vendors.

Rough and Synthetics

Joe Henley Rough - Natural and Synthetics (US)
Turtle's Hoard - Synthetics (US)
Tom's Box of Rocks - Synthetics (US)
Western Gem - Natural (US)
Gems of East Africa - Natural (EU)

Lapidary Supplies

Lightning Laps - Laps, Polishes and Tools

Designs

Ultratec

Adjust swing alignment on platen - Does your stone cut deeper on the outside vs inside of the lap? This will help fix that.

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[–] Crylos 2 points 8 months ago

I’ve used dental wax for years to hold the stones to the dop and it does a good job as long as you don’t use too much force when cutting. The key to using the wax is to make sure you heat both the stone and dop enough for the wax to adhere. You can tell that has done so when the wax edge no longer seems to curl under and instead seems to have a clean line with the surface.

I’ve used super glue as well depending on the situation… but the cure time and difficulty in getting it off the dop and cleaning the stone of the residue makes it not worth it in my opinion.