Faceting 101 Chapter 15 Closing 

thanks for the content!

Thank you for doing these videos. They are extremely good. I look forward to starting faceting my stones. :)

fantastic

cheers mate

I'm cutting my first stone. Watching your videos has given me more confidence. Thank you for sharing your knowledge😏

Fantastic lessons for the beginner (me) lol, You have given me the inspiration to go the next step from finding stones while prospecting for gold, reading books on stone cutting, next step is the faceting machine, thank you so much for simplifying to lamon terms for a novice. Cheers mate. Len, Australia

Hi, Thanks for the vid's very well done, I repair mechanical watches as a hobby and at one swap meet I ran across an ultratec V2 machine, well I wound up with it in a trade, and its been sitting in my shop for a few years. Now I want to learn to use it,,, again thanks for the time you took to make these videos.

Arya, thank you for your time and effort in making these videos, pls keep on doing this. Could you also make a video were to buy all rough materials synth and natural. There is much out there, but its all about the prices. And what are the pro's and cons for buying compared to similar materials form other sources. TY, greetings from Amsterdam.

Great work, very short and very informative, it's really a joy to watch the whole 101 series... thanks a lot!

Great videos!! Thank you!! I do not have a machine yet but now I can't wait to get one!!

Thank you for your beginner's faceting videos! You are my hero!!!

Just watched the whole 101 series. Very informative, thank you. As a budding cutter it's given me a good insight into faceting. One criticism . You spent 15 episodes going from rough to closing and spend a microsecond on the actual finished product. I really wanted to see the conclusion.

Thanks, great initiative !

just wanted to ask if you could have one more detailed presentation on the machine adjustment, I was not able to catch all the machine details and functionality. that would be great once you got the opportunity including the tools needed and the cost.

Great education, thanks from Mick Regul. Real name George but like most American's Mickey Redmond, Mickey Mantel Mickey Stanley, Mickey Loelich, there real names are George.

This was a very very good introductory series of "how to facet" videos. I have a collection of rough stones I've found, mostly sapphires but some emerald too, and I'm trying to decide if I want to invest money and time into a machine and faceting the stones myself. Another good video to have included would have been an explanation on how to use the cutting plans or diagrams and how that translates to settings used on the faceting machine to get those cuts. Also, some talk about how long it took to accomplish each step on this stone would have been nice like "oh it took me about 90 minutes to get these 4 cuts done." I need to get an idea of how much time it will take me from start to finish. Finally, a video on breaking down a huge chunk of rough stone to facetable pieces would be great. For example, I have a 150 gm chunk of crumbly sapphire that I could break down into many many smaller facetable pieces but I don't even know how to begin. Well, that could be a whole other series of videos.

So how does a beginner select the right faceting machine?

This is a fantastic Faceting machine! Hope you can come to Singapore to open a school because Singapore is a educational hub and there a lots of government grant support! Gemstone Faceting is brand new to Singapore and strongly believed the government will be very interested. Email me if you needs help in Singapore and I will be more than happy to assist you! Gemologist Jo.