Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:42 pm
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Precision Gem wrote:
A Mahenge Garnet that is 2.00 carats. Design was made on Rej's new program.
Beautiful Gene, and you have no idea how happy/weird it makes me feel when I see that someone used my tool to help create beauty like this. Sometimes I forget that I'm not just making a simulation, and that people will actually use it to cut stones. I mean I use it all the time to plan cuts here, but when other people across the planet are using it, well that's different for some reason... Anyway this made my day.
Now I'm curious, did you plan it to arrive at exactly 2.00ct through Caedmon's calculator tool in my app or is it just a coincidence?
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:40 am
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bobsiv wrote:
Here's a few slightly different stones, both cryptocrystalline quartz!
Beautiful cuts and colors! I like faceting cryptocrystalline quartz too. You should also add some orange chalcedony to complete your color palette, one of my favorites. And then the purple, and...
In addition to getting the fine/expensive material (chrysoprase, "gem silica", etc.), when I visit gem shows I'm always looking for the odd homogeneous piece in the trays of tumbled material. Last time I even scored a pure white "agate". Still have to cut it, tho.
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 12:43 am
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Some absolutely gorgeous gems been posted lately! Rej, is your software going to available to the public? I would love to check it out. In the mean time here is a recent pretty Aussie parti sapphire I recently completed. Would liked to have kept that one. Turned out 2cts. Happy faceting everyone!
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:23 am
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Jamie, that's a beautiful parti, so clear! I was meant to go hunt my own in Inverell next week but the weather looks like it's going to be shocking ...
I'll PM you some links if you're interested in testing the app, it'll go public when all the bugs are gone.
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:29 am
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Would love to have a test of it Rej! They have had some funky weather down Inverell way of late. Some rippa storms too. Glad you liked the parti Rej and Dave!
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:57 pm
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Hi Ephsea, This one isn't from our claim in willows but from rubyvale. We rarely get this type in our claim but it does happen occasionally. We get alot more greens mainly and some rally nice yellows and green/yellow partis. Glad you like the cutting.
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:18 am
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Here's a new design I came up with - entirely designed in Gem Cut Studio (I still think Arya's 'GemRej' moniker is cooler ) It's called Hypnotize, it was design so the color/brightness moves side to side as it rocks - since it's meant to go into a pendant in a particular orientation (I haven't actually finished a pendant for it yet ). No idea how this type of design could be accomplished before the real time rendering that GCS allows...
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Both cut in synthetic sapphire - the design was meant for higher RI, but seems to turn out well in other material. It's already been cut by someone else (in Amethyst) who asked for the design - which I think is really cool!
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:25 am
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I remember relatively many years ago, a cutter giving me the advice to buy a small phrenite cut stone. It was before the big find in Mali, and cut phernites (I think the rough available was mainly from Australia) were -relatively- expensive. I didn't buy it because it was kinda ugly... The situation changed quite a lot.
Today I cut this large one. Since it's "lime" yellow-green, the idea for the cut was very easy.
Very difficult stone to photograph... It has polished rind, sanded pith, polished segments, and sanded center. Good for a cocktail ring, maybe?
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:14 am
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maialetto wrote:
HA!, great idea Marco. I have a piece of "facet grade" Aussie stuff I've been meaning to have a crack at as well, this would be a great design, although I have doubts on my ability to polish the round. What do you think about adding thin frosted lines between each of the wedges to separate them?
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 3:07 am
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I thought about adding frosted lines as you suggest. The material is just translucent, I was a little hesitant at adding them, since they are bound not to stand out too much, and they are not that easy to cut, if you want to do them properly. The angle setting MUST be perfect or the lines will be of uneven thickness. It gets more and more noticeable when lines are very thin. That's also what sets a "hanami" cut well executed apart from the not that well executed one: thin and perfectly even frosted lines separating the petals.
In that cut I should have added 10 of them. If I'm not careful and I make them thick, I risk to have too much frosted areas around, to my taste. Hair-thin frosted facets also tend to leave crumbly edges. And that phrenite seems already crumbly enough. So I basically chickened out and played safe.
ADDED: polishing the round is so easy! Set the quill in freewheel position, and rotate it gently between index and thumb. Done.
Post subject: Re: Off the dop - post YOUR latest creation
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:21 am
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Hi Mary
I love your amethyst! Well done - it is beautiful! As we all know, amethyst is the birthstone for February - perhaps we should all cut more amethysts this month!
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