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.
This cut is called a pear (or teardrop) and was a commission for a co-worker. I was still learning the techniques for taking photos/videos of stones so this isn’t the best quality shot. However, when this stone was in the outdoors with sunlight, it absolutely showed off a ton of red fire.
Garnets are my favorite stone 😍 I'm really excited to facet a whole bunch of them when my machine arrives - probably going to be one of my first stones!
Garnets can be tricky especially the really color saturated ones. See my next post about the loss of a stone. 🥲