@@stuartgems7593 a quick question, do you cut a part of a larger rock to suit the shape of the gem you make? or do the rocks come in suitable random shapes that you search and salvage?
@@trippcailean9594 The artisan is the one still making the gems but the process of painfully spending much time and concentration on getting the cuts right is removed by using a programmed machine.
Yes but, if you go look at the royal jewels in London, most of the older crowns and jewelry pieces have gems without much luster due to inaccurate angles of grinding that reduces the light refraction.
Just imagine how stones in the Georgian and Victorian eras were cut! No matter how the technology advances however, the skill of the artisan is critical and the value of that will never be diminished.
@@rickrolls3786 Post and peg (jamb peg)? Yes, most of the native cut junk is still bashed out that way. I used to buy them cheap in bulk to use as preforms for my own faceting efforts.
Wow! I always loved jewelry and all types of gemstones and after watching this video, I now have a higher appreciation for them and respect for those who are involved in creating beautiful pieces each step of the way. Thank you for sharing, this was very interesting!
I think this is my new favorite cut for gems. I never found princess cuts to be all that pretty and I'm so glad people are more open minded with different cuts for rings now! Your video was wonderful and a great example to show someone that, even with the machines to cut gems, it is still a human-operated process and time consuming.
One thing about RU-vid is that it turns up videos like this where it might be something you didn't realise was interesting till you see it done to this level. Great to watch craftsmen turn out something like the Gem just seen.
That was a really cool and thorough demonstration. A little more technical detail would be interesting - for example, how you set the parameters on the dop holder machine to get the right incremental change of angle for each facet, and how that has improved over time when people used to do it by eye.
I think I gained a liking for precious and semi-precious stones after both having had Geology classes in uni, as well as having collected Synthetic Opal D&D dice. To see everything that comes into play in order to give form and polish these gems is awe-inspiring. This is beautiful artisanship.
Beautiful work. It's amazing seeing something so precise coming out of something so rough. Do you think you could do a video on how the angles and dimensions of the facets are calculated?
@@stuartgems7593 Yes it would e great to watch a video on how you calculate the angles, and dimension. An while doing that video; if you could also tell us about the dials on the grinding arm, and what the equipment you're using does. Thank you for the upload; an looking forward to more informative videos. Best of luck to us all in 2021
@@stuartgems7593 That would be amazing! Another good one would be how you decide what cut/style to use for each gem and why. The last is something I've always wondered. Part of it is just the saze and shape of the rough, but there's always that other reason for using...say an Asscher over a square Emerald, or something like that. :)
I am studying gemology, maybe that's why the algorithm brought me here. Thank you for amazing work! And also thank you for helping me memorizing that cerium oxide is quartz polisher, I think I'll never forget XD
Stuart, thank you for taking the time to make this video. You have educated thousands of people to know how these gemstones are made. Your video was explains so much, is well organized and very educational. And your skill at making them is amazing!!
My goodness, I had no idea that this was the process for cutting gemstones. It certainly takes a lot more care and patience than I imagined. And this was a very large gem. Cutting a very small gem must be painstaking.
Randomly got interested in gem cutting type stuff and this video was the first time I got exactly what I was looking for. Great craftsmanship and editing skills! Super enjoyable to watch.
Searched for this on a curious whim, it's amazing to me how each face on the gem was cut and polished by hand like that. The way the light reacts when reflected against each face was also mesmerising. You also have a really relaxing voice, it made it a captivating and calming watch
As a layman, I was not expecting anything from this video, but at the end of the video my mouth was wide open, my gosh that light ! Then I subscribed and hit that bell icon.
As a Portuguese person, I never knew we had our own gem cut, I have to say I absolutely love the end result! I clicked on the video for the beautiful gem and left having learnt a bunch of new things, thank you so much for sharing the process!
@@DeathGrandMaster Let me guess, you're Brazilian and all that you know about our history boils down to us going there and stealing your gold while ignoring everything that we have given back like culture, language, buildings and cityscapes, among many other foreign items. I also have to reinforce that Portugal was the FIRST country in the world to abolish slavery and it also swiftly ended colonialism, which is why Brazil, along with South American colonies that belonged to Spain, was made independent so early when compared to all other colonialized countries in the world. It has been 198 years since Brazil's independence, having happened in the 7th of September of 1822. To put it into perspective, there are ex-colonies that were only made independent around 1990, Portugal had given every single one of their colonies independence by 1975. It had only stayed that long due to a militar dictatorship happening at that same time (fascism in europe) because as soon as it was overtaken, the colonies were given their well deserved independence.
@@FXFGamer Esse aí foi vítima dos golpistas republicanos de 1889 que deturparam toda a história anterior do Brasil. O que não conseguiram destruir, substituíram, como foi o caso do dia do descobrimento (22 de abril) substituído pelo dia de Tiradentes (21 de abril) dito herói, que de herói não tem nada, apenas mais um revolucionário ambicioso que se tivesse sido bem sucedido teria, muito provavelmente, instaurado uma republiqueta aos moldes hispano-americanos. Mais recentemente a leitura marxísta dialética, terminou de desgraçar a coisa toda, tratando a história em ciclos econômicos e colocando a ideia de explorador versus explorado em toda a história do Brasil. Agora, eu sou partidário do Reino Unido Portugal, Brasil e Algarve, quiçá incluindo Angola como Estado autônomo e tornando-nos, portanto, um Império Tri-continental! Divagação minha, eu sei, mas seriamos uma das nações mais poderosas do mundo.
@@DeathGrandMaster Ayo, relax, he is not the old Portuguese guys that stole gold, he just were born in Portugal. We still have gold, but not so much. Isn't his fold, im Brazilian, but of course if Portugal didn't have stole our gold we would be a rich country
I always thought nature made amethyst beautiful in its natural rough form but you have clearly outdone her on this one sir. I will smash that subscribe button!
Yes, thanks it has taking much time and a few disasters to get ware I am but i always learn so much from from when tings do not go right it makes me a better cutter
@@stuartgems7593 Just out of curiosity how many hours of work is a piece like that? The work is self looks mind boggling...i wear glasses and am fairly poor sighted..
My dad was a successful gem businessman in the 60s through till the 90s and when I was a kid he used to show me all his gems. He passed away in 2001 before he could teach me about gems and this video reminded me of him. I do have some of his gems and I wear one of his Sri Lankan star sapphires as a ring.
that's an amazing artform. i'm from brazil and rough gems like those are practically worthless, but in your hands it became at least a thousand times more valuable.
@@warriormaiden9829 There are a few unique cutting styles seen today that are especially interesting, such as the 'Portuguese-cut'. Portuguese cut gemstones are faceted with an extra row of bezel facets, which result in more sparkle and color; this cutting style is typically seen only with large round or oval stones, minimizing waste. Princess cuts are popular because you don't need as big of a stone to do those, but they're also very DIFFICULT cuts to make.
@@MajimeTV Wonderful information, thank you for sharing! But I think you may have been replying to my other comment, the one asking about what goes into deciding what cut to use. XD
Awesome to observe. I feel privileged to witness this stone cutting. These are secrets of a select group of initiates. And I think it's amazing to have this tutorial on the www. Thanks!
this is incredible, the finished product looks so much more amazing than i could have pictured looking at what you started with. now I feel like all jewelry with gemstones in them should be so much more expensive, haha. I can't imagine how hard it would be to facet and polish something very tiny... amazing work!!!
"The pavilion of the gem is now complete and the gem is transferred to a new dock using a transfer jig" I laughed thinking, "What if after all that fine craftsmanship, the 'transfer jig' is just him smacking it with a big hammer as hard as he can". lol
This was very interesting to watch! You earned a new subscriber, and I'll definetly be checking out more of your videos! I just love stuff like this. Gemstones, crystals, all of it. It's just so interesting.
Gorgeous cut and clean work this was amazing. I only hope this goes to decorate a beautiful piece of jewelry or a jewelry box. I have seen too many Portugese cut gems used for door handels and draw pulls and it makes me so sad, why use something so beautuful for something so tacky :(
Thank you for your video, I never knew how this done. It just seems to me when your hand polishing it that you might wear some of the pattern. is the stone that that strong? Is this the way it was done in the old days with the electrical motors?
Thanks for watching! the proses is similar to the old days tho the machines have changed a lot and yes it is posable to ware away the pattern when polishing care and carful planning is needed to avoid that
Just beautiful, Beautiful Work.Thank you for sharing you're wonderful work with us. Its so inspiring. You're a wonderful teacher😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😉😘😍😎😎😎😎😎😎bye for now !!!!🤗🤗🤗
Your work is beautiful! I have a young teen fascinated with all things geology...any advice on how to learn the art of gem cutting? Is it apprenticeship based or are there degree or certificate programs for this sort of thing?
@@aminad6903 Hi, there are places where you can take a course in gem cutting and lapidary clubs is also a popular place to learn it depends on where you live if it is available, not many apprenticeships on offer Gemmology is the study of the identification of gemstones and you can do a degree in that lookup Gem-A and GIA, and rockhounding is the hobby of looking for and collecting gems and minerals
@@stuartgems7593 Hi! Wonderful work. I was wondering with the gem going from 90 ct to 30 ct, is anything done to try to save the sanded off material? Or how do you best minimize that loss in the planning process?
@@anonymous6687 noting is done with the dust, yes the best way minimize that loss in the planning process I will go into this in more detail in upcoming video
@Stuartgems what a craft my man! You have learnt to create beauty from the earth, wonderful! This is the first video I searched for how are gem stones cut & it answered all of my questions, thank you. :)
@@stuartgems7593 I wonder if the grinding disc would be affected by the metal. I'd assume that it'd be just fine, given the hardness of Amethyst? i'd love to see how sharp a mirror polished blade edge would be
There was something in the background music that was grabbing my attention but I couldn't tell what it was... Until it hit me. Star shopping - Lil Peep. Rest in piece bro
Wow that’s a lot of waste. I mean incredible job, but I never realised quite how much of a gem is lost when you cut it. Literally a third of the original size?.!!!?!!???!!?
The value only comes out from the cut, otherwise it's simply a stone. A lot of thought goes into which design is best for the individual gem. It may seem like a loss, but without it we could never witness that bling bling
I’m blown away what fantastic results after all your hard work… Although you make it look easy I guess very few people achieve such results… I too would love more videos on the machine & how people can copy your process after all this should be shared
Never thought I would be genuinely star struck by a gemstone... I guess theres a first time for everything! Stellar work man, what an incredibly satisfying result!
it is very hard to cut and you need quite a time to grind a noticeable layer. Basically, they pick the gem up from the wheel and check it a bunch of times per fascet. In such conditions it is hard to overdue unless you are impatient
Hi, having no knowledge of how this kind of thing is done, your video was rather like watching magic happen right in front of me, thank you that was fun to watch.
I was always amazed at how perfect these craftsmen worked the gems and diamonds, i never thought i could do but i can see their tools are well designed for the job, as long as you have a stedy hand, good eye and plenty of time i reckon after a couple of jems i could do just as good a job as this guy, i wish i would have looked into this when i was young i know i could have been a good gem/diamond cutter!
