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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Tips for new facetors
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<blockquote data-quote="Badge" data-source="post: 638628" data-attributes="member: 21082"><p>Natural sapphire seems so much easier to cut and polish.</p><p>Still not easy but I'm getting the hang of things more now. The remarks from both Pat Hagen and Dihusky about less being more when polishing is well and truly accepted now. And keeping everything clean seems to be helping more too. This small 1.1 carat sapphire (it started as 2 carats) which I lost off the dop doing the 19.8 degree cuts and replaced on the dop somehow turned out OK. A fairly good polish imo.</p><p></p><p>I've just received a couple of pieces of topaz in the mail and I'm sure Dihusky is the man who knows his way around topaz but if anyone else has any tips I'd be happy to take them. There seems to be a few layers on each piece. I take it the table facet should be horizontal to these layers? I'm not jumping into them just yet, because I'm sure topaz will have it's own difficulties that need to be researched.</p><p></p><p>The 1.1 carat stone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Badge, post: 638628, member: 21082"] Natural sapphire seems so much easier to cut and polish. Still not easy but I'm getting the hang of things more now. The remarks from both Pat Hagen and Dihusky about less being more when polishing is well and truly accepted now. And keeping everything clean seems to be helping more too. This small 1.1 carat sapphire (it started as 2 carats) which I lost off the dop doing the 19.8 degree cuts and replaced on the dop somehow turned out OK. A fairly good polish imo. I've just received a couple of pieces of topaz in the mail and I'm sure Dihusky is the man who knows his way around topaz but if anyone else has any tips I'd be happy to take them. There seems to be a few layers on each piece. I take it the table facet should be horizontal to these layers? I'm not jumping into them just yet, because I'm sure topaz will have it's own difficulties that need to be researched. The 1.1 carat stone. [/QUOTE]
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