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I'm a big fan of things natural as they came from the earth but a mate gave me a chunk of bi-coloured blue-orange cristinite so I thought I'd give this design a lash - "Cleopatra's eye".
It's about 11mm long. My gem photography skills are improving but I've still got a ways to go - the "stone" is perfectly polished and without any inclusions (as you would expect man-made stuff to be), it's not easy to take a photo of how a faceted gem looks in real life, the camera often wants to see things wrong that don't actually exist.
I think this design will turn out more useful than I originally thought. You can afford to waste a little bit of man-made stuff that was given to you but you don't want to waste good natural stone just to get a particular shape. But upon examining a lot of quartz crystals that I have (many from Lowmead), a lot of them are not perfectly hexagonal through the cross-section but a are slightly squashed toward the ends - a perfect shape for this design.
I think this would look good in a nice piece of amethyst, perhaps set into an Egyptian-style setting.
What I reckon would look awesome would be this design in a good-sized pharaoh's eye sapphire - so long as the shape of the rough was close enough so as not to waste valuable sapphire.
It's about 11mm long. My gem photography skills are improving but I've still got a ways to go - the "stone" is perfectly polished and without any inclusions (as you would expect man-made stuff to be), it's not easy to take a photo of how a faceted gem looks in real life, the camera often wants to see things wrong that don't actually exist.
I think this design will turn out more useful than I originally thought. You can afford to waste a little bit of man-made stuff that was given to you but you don't want to waste good natural stone just to get a particular shape. But upon examining a lot of quartz crystals that I have (many from Lowmead), a lot of them are not perfectly hexagonal through the cross-section but a are slightly squashed toward the ends - a perfect shape for this design.
I think this would look good in a nice piece of amethyst, perhaps set into an Egyptian-style setting.
What I reckon would look awesome would be this design in a good-sized pharaoh's eye sapphire - so long as the shape of the rough was close enough so as not to waste valuable sapphire.