It's pretty well matched to a Smith Bar if you wanted to do it all as one big stone. Everyone loves pixels!
Dyntrall
joined 1 year ago
Cheers! This was another gem show bargain bucket, aimed at new agers, find. I can't complain too much for the amount I paid!
Ice clear polish, and perfect meetpoints too! Fantastic!
I've used the AlOx lightning lap because powders hate me
I've been so impressed with the LL pads that, outside of bonded cutting disks, I don't use anything else. Your milage may vary, though!
Quartz is definitely a bastard. The only thing that helped me was getting hold of a couple of lightning laps - https://lightninglap.com/ - the 3k resin bonded lap polishes like an 8k, and then a CeOx resin polishing lap from them.
I've never figured out how to get a satisfying polish with anything I have to apply to a lap, it just becomes scratch city.
Stone looks lovely though!
It's a super fun cut to do!
It's Trioptic Blast, from this free book: https://facetingdesigns.com/beginnerbook/ I wanted to do something very simple for a stone I'm not used to cutting, and it came out way better than it should!
Fantastic work! It took me at least 6 months before I could get a finish like that!
Top stuff! What diagram did you use? I'm looking for a nice meetpoint based cushion cut
This is shaping up to be a great one!
Ooh that's gonna cut a nice stone. I'm working on my first peridot, and it's horrible and packed full of inclusions, but I'd rather make mistakes on something cheap while I try a new material.
Woah damn, I need to step up my game