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This is a new design that has 198 facets that I thought was going to be a challenge to cut, but was much easier than I anticipated. I would have uploaded a video, but haven’t figured out quite how to do that yet.
This is from a new community that is all about faceting gemstones. If you are in to lapidary of any kind, subscribe!
That cut is phenomenal, how did you do it?
The design was based on originally trying to achieve a swirling affect, but I ended up with this when I was designing it in gem cad studio. I loved the render and decided to try the cut.
For those that don’t know how gems are cut, there are a couple of different style machines, I use what’s called a mast style from Ultratec. A stone is cut based on index(position around the circumference) and angle and is cut by grinding the stone down on different grit laps. For this stone I used a 260, 1200, 3000 and finally 60,000 diamond.
Overall this stone took about 5 hours to cut.