Thankyou ❤️
Thanks! I deffo recommend it. Certainly a step up in stone quality from the usual gem-shop bins I dig through for rough!
Cracking job, love the colour
Lovely work
Stunning work. I'm a big fan of picking up cheap tumblestones and seeing if I can find a gem in there
Oh damn that's pretty! Nicely done to the both of you!
I have several stones with wandering girdles - this still looks great regardless!
Absolute chonk! Beautifully done.
It can indeed! Brittle stuff and stuff with cleavage planes can do it if you're not careful.
I am not careful.
Stunning work, and a lovely story
Teeny tiny peridot. It was a very cheap bit of rough for around £1, so I'm amazed I managed to get anything out of it at all. Still, I'm happy with the result and have a bit more experience with stuff that needs Aluminium Oxide to polish. Design is Emerald by Justin K. Prim
A heavily included bit of green tourmaline (my first!) in a simple square cut. You can see the different colours through different angles, which I didn't realise before I cut it! Design is Square Cut by Justin K. Prim
My first stab at a spinel. I think the cut is probably not great for a stone this size, and I'm not sure if it's hazy due to a bad polish, the weird design, or the stone just not being super clear. Design is Time Portal by Andrew Brown
Social media keeps trying to sell me faceted moss agate jewelry, so I had a stab at cutting some myself. The stone is a bit too thick with moss (I can now see why the ads are for stuff that is tiny!) but it was a fun experiment.
Square citrine I've cut. This guy threw from the dop a few weeks back and I've only just got round to actually finish it. Should have pulled the corners in further, as this would have allowed me a smaller table and better optics.
I had an offcut from my Smith Bar, so I did a simple brilliant cut to make sure that I could actually get a proper polish on the aquamarine crystal. Turns out it was definitely something with my technique in the last stone.
Had a crack at the Smith Bar, by Jeff Graham. Usually I'm fine polishing beryls but this guy just wouldn't behave, possibly due to the extreme angles I needed to do.
I've been faceting since October last year and finally got the guts to do a frosted design. The colour is a bit washed out - it's greener in real life, but mobile phone colour correction always kills it. One day I'll figure out how to actually take nice pictures of gems.
Design is Frost Star Hex by Andrew Brown
This is what we call The Good Stuff. Amazing job