How To Cut Gemstones - Sapphire 

Your're welcome. Cheers Cliff

Thanks Lisa. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks Edward.

Thanks Adam.

Thanks Talli......

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Thank you jpdemont .

Because that color is usually heated to about 1000°F, to turn it blue, especially Montana, "Blue," ones. I prefer stones the way they are, as both faceter and wearer.

Thanks Donna...Happy faceting. Regards Cliff

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What’s your favorite local mine ? The spokean bar by Helena treated me nicely

@@nicklabellarte2390 I've been to Blaze N Gem's mine and classified 10 buckets of concentrate which is the closest I have come to actual mining. I've also been to Gem Mountain which is more touristy and basically a pay dirt site with a store, and wash stations, but it's not at the dig site itself. This is the site where they can heat or cut your gems locally, but they also send away. We actually got more curable gems at gem mountain which is the rock creek deposit than at Blaze's. I think it was just unlucky with the concentrate with Blaze. Only 2 small cuttable gems in 10 buckets. A little discouraging.

That was the first stone on my new Poly Metric machine. 23 BIG & LONG facets. One would think with that few a facets the stones would not sparkle as they do. I'm currently finishing a piece of rose d' France in that cut. It is fairly easy to do compared to some of the fantastic doorknob sized beauties Cliff creates ; ^ )

This gem looks so much better in real life. If I can get hold of a clean Herkimer diamond with no flaws I will facet it and video it. Thanks for watching

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Thanks for watching. Shame you have to sell your gems. I must go to Tassie one day and find some Sapphires. There are not too many half decent sapphires in Victoria. Cheers

@@VintageTimeGems There is one good place here in Tassie for Sapphires I have a small jar full . I do have a couple of vegemite jars full of nice topaz.

Thanks John. I enjoy watching Rookie Rockhounding. That a Aussie channel.

Hi Tam, I would begin to learn how to facet a girdle on a SRB, it will look so much better. The "French Star" is exactly the same as what is referred to as a "The French Diamond Cut". It's difficult to source some of these early designs. I'm looking for a French Rectangular Design with specific pavilion cuts, but I have yet to find the design I'm after. Some of these earlier designs are really fun to facet. Regards Cliff

@@VintageTimeGems ohhh that french rectangular sounds interesting. Much luck in finding what you are searching for. Hmmm I wonder if my mentor may have or know more about what you are looking for. He has been cutting stones since before I was born and is a wonderful gent of 80 plus years.

Hi Mark your right about fossicking. I do fossick, but Sapphired are over a1000 kms away in Queensland. What's in Victoria is to small to facet. However, the citrine and smokey quartz are nice in Victoria. Topaz is my favourite gem and Zircon comes close second followed by Spessartite. I can be contacted at vintagetimegems@aol.com

@@VintageTimeGems G'day matey ,First time viewer to your vids good job and you have brought back some very good memories and yep you're right some of the best gems are located in Queensland , Ruby vale and Sapphire QLD to be precise. I lived in Emerald for 7 years and 40 kms away was the fossicking area , mostly in Ruby vale. Got some great Topaz over the years , one was cut by a professional cutter in that area and once he finished , i had it appraised and it was $AU 14,000 , i have dozens upon dozens of gems from Topaz to Black Stars , i even have one Star which is shaped like a Great White Sharks tooth , very rare , so i am told. Anyway great video and thanks for the info. Cheers matey. Regards Eric

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Yes, I would actually think this is a golden sapphire...Thanks for watching

Thanks...There will be more vids with the 64 index wheel....

If you check out a table of "Gemtones critical Angles" you will find that gems with a high refractive index will also suit designs that have a refractive index of 1.54. The problem is gems with a low refractive index cannot be faceted when the culet facets are cut below 41 degrees, then they will not refract light and appear see through (windowed).

You will have to wipe the oil off else you cannot see the scratches....I use toilet paper. Polishing is the most difficult. Learn to polish Topaz...It's the easiest.

You can get it heat treated to get the color you want but it has to be marked as treated

Around 0.8 carats

8000 diamond grit pre-polish then a 50,000 diamond grit for final polish.

Hopefully I will get to Tsavorite some day. It is expensive to purchase. Cheers