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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:17 am 
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Great maialetto,

I'm a big fan of your designs, they tend to suite the shapes I like to cut. Great to hear it works for garnets as well.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:58 pm 
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I have two slightly different versions... for garnets I use slightly different angles, but it should not make any appreciable difference.

This is on (a good) garnet:
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I like it in amethyst as well:
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This is the one I use for quartz and such. But it should be perfectly OK also with garnet. You might want to double check, tho. I don't remember why I have two versions around, maybe I wanted to rise the crown for the garnet...
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It's very easy and fast to cut. That's why I cut it ~4 times. :)

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:24 am 
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Wow maialetto, that really is attractive at both ends of the ri scale.

Thank you very much.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:29 pm 
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Well it's time for my yearly post haha
Here are some of my more recent cut stones

1.49ct Oregon Sunstone
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1.75ct Oregon Sunstone
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Same stone as above but with a circular polarizer rotated 90 degrees to show the interference caused by the stone having a twin plane
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4.62ct Peach Tourmaline
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2.51ct Aquamarine
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3.51ct Mahenge Garnet
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Ametrine Icosahedron
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Another view of the Ametrine
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Very nice Jordan.

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Wow!! Wonderful stones....!!

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That twinning plane is very cool, there even seems to be some facet doubling at the topmost edge of the stone!


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Here's a couple stones that I finished off this month, was hoping to get two more done but they aren't cooperating with the materials or the schedule I have. Pictures aren't so great due to issues with wear on the film coating (that should be internal) on my phone camera's porthole :x.

7mm watermelon tourmaline. There's a chip on the girdle and another just out of the way of the pattern, but the rough was a good price even with the flaws. I rarely see these cut any more and wanted to add one of those classic melon gems to my collection.
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8mm Dark Indian garnet. Done in Marco Voltolini's Fiorello. Gives off tons of red flashes in yellow lights and sunlight, and isn't bothered at all by attempts to block light around it. The flashes are bright enough that I had to wait until evening to get a decent photo of it! It's still too dark to have the scintillation or patterns that the ray-trace shows, though.
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This stuff has much better clarity than the rhodolites I have, and it's definitely softer than CZ. Maybe a traditional scissor cut is in order...


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My first post on this. Picture of yellow sapphire before and after cutting.

The sapphire was handed down through my wife's family and given to me 10+ years ago by my grandmother-in-law due to my interested in collecting minerals. A year ago I started faceting and my wife wanted me to try to make something out of the stone. I probably should have waited to hone my skills but it didn't turn out terrible. It's obviously natural with a bit of silk. I turned out whiter than the specimen was yellow. Ended up 10.2 carats, mixed cut.


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Is the pic of the finished stone in black and white?


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Barbra Voltaire wrote:
Is the pic of the finished stone in black and white?

Hi Barbra
I does look b&w because it's was on stainless steel. It's very light yellow and silk can be seen much clearer with the camera with this shot.


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Here is my first post Tucson stone. It is a 13.2 ct. amethyst, 14.6 mm. wide with concave facets on both pavilion and crown sides to add a little extra sparkle and further mask some slight color zoning.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:58 pm 
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A whole page of eye candy, beautiful stones maialetto and thanks for another design.
Jordan those are all stunning.
Stones look great shifter, I'd really like to see that garnet in full sun.
kensington, I'm shocked at how nice that turned out from looking at the rough, I bet grandma in law is tickled pink over that one.
Mary that is unreal, seriously gorgeous.

Thanks for the pics, Jim


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Keep up the good work folks! Here are a few of my more recent stones.

1.60ct Amethyst
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1.10ct Tangewizi garnet
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2.29ct Natural blue topaz
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More on the way,
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 11:59 am 
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Well, it's been years since I did my last stone so I'm still getting back into the swing of things.
The meets and polish on this one could have been better, but I'm still happy with how it ended up looking.

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11mm. Done in green flame fusion sapphire.


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