This was written for the Lynchburg Gem and Mineral Society. It contains a wealth of information about faceting and especially the Graves faceting machine
50 Minute Read
This column was written for the Lynchburg Gem and Mineral Society. It contains a wealth of information about faceting and especially the Graves faceting machine.
This column will be devoted to ideas submitted by members who are stone cutters – from tumblers to faceters. If you have a problem or have solved a cutting problem and care to share your solution, this is your column – please submit your ideas to the editor or myself. The title for the column was suggested by a problem that had me stumped to the point of giving up faceting: it is the topic of the first article.
Observation:
I was just about at my wits’ end: I had to re-cut a pavilion of a large pink Afghanistan topaz a third time to eliminate scratches which seemed to show up for no reason. I replaced my Master Lap with other laps and polish compounds which worked for a while, then the “scratches from hell” returned, ruining my attempts at perfection. (Hence, the name of this series of articles Scratches from the Master Lap!)
Problem:
City water has sediments in it: sand filters…
When you join the IGS community, you get trusted diamond & gemstone information when you need it.
This column was written for the Lynchburg Gem and Mineral Society. It contains a wealth of information about faceting and especially the Graves faceting machine.
This column will be devoted to ideas submitted by members who are stone cutters – from tumblers to faceters. If you have a problem or have solved a cutting problem and care to share your solution, this is your column – please submit your ideas to the editor or myself. The title for the column was suggested by a problem that had me stumped to the point of giving up faceting: it is the topic of the first article.
Observation:
I was just about at my wits’ end: I had to re-cut a pavilion of a large pink Afghanistan topaz a third time to eliminate scratches which seemed to show up for no reason. I replaced my Master Lap with other laps and polish compounds which worked for a while, then the “scratches from hell” returned, ruining my attempts at perfection. (Hence, the name of this series of articles Scratches from the Master Lap!)
Problem:
City water has sediments in it: sand filters…
This was written for the Lynchburg Gem and Mineral Society. It contains a wealth of information about faceting and especially the Graves faceting machine
Please become a member to read this entire article and gain access to hundreds more like it. As a member, you'll also get...
