Cutting a First Gem on the CutKit™1 Faceting Setup with a Vevor Machine 

ONE OF US ONE OF US. xD

Yup, it is basically dykem

Absolutely! I made this design in Gem Cut Studio which is incredible software for designing and rendering gem cuts.

If you need good polishing compound I recommend gearloose battstiks/diastiks 100% they are really nice to use. Faceting is pretty time intensive, especially at first, but fun and rewarding too (plus you can listen to audiobooks)

We have the kit in our webstore at store.turtleshoard.com, and the information is collected at www.facet.ing

Thank you so much. This is definitely the ground floor entery point to this trade. Thank you for the quick response. Hope you post more videos soon. God bless.

Other oils work too, though I'd avoid vegetable oils that can go rancid

@@AngryTurtleGems Thanks :)

I know people who facet professionally but it can be a challenging business. Most people do it as a hobby, maybe occasionally selling a stone here and there. It can be a lot of fun.

@@AngryTurtleGems Drats. Okay thanks. I would enjoy doing something like this full time, but I need enough money to live. I've done too many things that turned out to not sell enough to be profitable

@LeonardGreenpaw the nice thing about the Cutkit is that you can dip your toes in rather than committing several thousand up front

@@AngryTurtleGems yea. But the time to learn the different geometries. Plus various supplies will add up. And knowing myself, i will also go through the trouble of making the rings and necklaces for the highest profit margin... and then not know where to sell them! And i don't have enough money to start a whole jewelry shop without the assurance of sales

We have them available on our site TurtlesHoard.com and all the info is up on www.facet.ing

Ir is YAG (Yttrium Aluminum Garnet), a type of lab created garnet grown for use in lasers

@@AngryTurtleGems Thank you! They look really interesting, but also very artificial

@frakkx3491 that is part of what I like about this material--it wasn't made to imitate something natural, it's just its own thing, and the gem usage is totally incidental.

If you facet gems full time you could be called a gemcutter, lapidary/lapidarist or a faceter. Many people just do it as a hobby or maybe a side hustle rather than a job.

It depends a lot on material. YAG is fairly cooperative but other materials like quartz might not always cooperate. With the copper lap I found going very slow and having a very light charge was important for getting a good polish--a higher charge led to scratching.

Thx, sorry how make light charge I don’t know 🤷‍♂️:) I take sandpaper 80 grid and make scratches,then take 8’000or 50’000 pandenium and since you used nothing 😢😊used “amethyst”

@makumeganeyt9628 80 grit is very coarse and in addition to leaving deep scratches it will also leave small cracks right under the surface (called aubsurface damage). It is important to cut through that layer with intermediate cutting grits like 240 and 600. Amethyst may not polish well with diamond anyway, quartz can be touchy and prefers oxide polishes.

@@AngryTurtleGems Thanks, I meant the lapping tool for copper and tin disk I make 80 griid scratches in the disk to deepen the polishing paste into these scratches and nothing works with polishing. I don't understand why. I do everything like everything in the video, but nothing =) and cut strips.

​@@makumeganeyt9628 don't score laps, it's not necessary and could be the cause of your polishing issues.

Buying a US-made machine is a great idea if you can afford it, but there are many people who would love to try faceting but can't sink $5000 or more into getting started. Put another way, for some people telling them they have to start on an expensive machine is the same as telling them they can't facet. The US companies that once filled that starter niche (Lee, Graves, MDR etc) are all out of business now. While this setup isn't as good as an ultra tec or facetron it is definitely a viable starting point and it will let you get started without spending a fortune.