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I Cut a Raw 10 Carat Montana Sapphire Into a Beautiful Gemstone

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I take a nice 10 carat rough Montana Sapphire and cut it into an amazing faceted gemstone. The rough piece was found by someone at the Blue Jewel Sapphire Mine in Montana.
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@jansalomin 6 месяцев назад

I'm surprised that channels like these that show the whole process and are really down to earth aren't more popular.

@will0ughby 6 месяцев назад

I watch these videos when they hit my recommended. Thanks for reminding me to hit subscribe!

@JulyEmerald 6 месяцев назад

That's because people won't shock and awe😂😂😂

@jojodancer5701 5 месяцев назад

Try, black opal direct...

@claudiosaltara7003 3 месяца назад

@@will0ughby 7:04

@DaughterOfDrakes 4 месяца назад

I'm not an expert or anything of course but I gotta say, I kinda liked how it looked better before the heat treatment. That super gentle blue with the slight cloudiness kinda reminded me of a sky with some wispy clouds or something.

@joshwiggin9372 6 месяцев назад

I never thought I would spend my Saturday night watching videos on gem stone cutting. Well done! Please keep them coming.

@MattsCornerofGemCutting 6 месяцев назад

I really liked seeing this stone go into a beautiful ring! I know a lot of people are going to ask about the value of the sapphire. Value on stones like this depend a lot on who it selling it and I'm not an actual appraiser, but I'd estimate the value of it cut and after heating to be somewhere between $1,000-$2000/carat. Before heating, maybe $800/carat. The piece is 4.62 carats.

@JulyEmerald 6 месяцев назад

You do some really good work and just got yourself a new subscriber🎉

@user-ez4dz8xs2k 6 месяцев назад

Sir I have more rough diamonds

@fwiffo 6 месяцев назад

I just found a >9 carat stone in some Eldorado Bar mail-order gravel. It's a pretty nice sky blue color, but has some silk and will need heat treatment. Also, it's got some pretty big fractures down the middle. At what point do cracks make a stone impractical to facet? It's big, and has a nice crystal shape, so I'm confident it would be an impressive stone if it's possible to cut it. But if it's probably just going to fall apart, I'll just keep it as a mineral specimen. (I realize you can't evaluate a stone without seeing it, but I can send pictures if you're curious).

@andnowi 5 месяцев назад

I prefer unheated. Is this unusual?

@iolightning 4 месяца назад

Heat treating is such a gamble. Yes: color is richer, clarity generally better, and I'm betting the owner is pretty happy with the result. But... as a collector, I love brighter "sleepy" or silky sapphires, and an unheated Montana over 4 ct is incredibly rare. Well, even a heated one is incredibly rare! Thank you for sharing your process for weight retention while maximizing beauty. It really shows how an expert gem cutter uses science, art, and experience all together.

@ron.v 6 месяцев назад

A gorgeous cut that was even prettier after heat treating. Thanks.

@zelousfoxtrot3390 6 месяцев назад

Spent the whole video wondering about heat treatment... That is beautiful, and looks great. You did a wonderful job, and I bet they are very happy.

@ArtemysNyx 5 месяцев назад

wow the final ring looks amazing. def the right choice to heat treat to get that blue color.

@israelp6068 5 месяцев назад

Amazing! Never knew these tools existed to show you how the gem will look before you cut it and how you're able to adjust it to get the perfect cut desired. My dream job is to work in the gem/jewelry business one day. Thank you for sharing this wonderful knowledge 🙏🏽

@LakeOuachita 6 месяцев назад

Wow! Gorgeous stone, awesome cutting...and the heat treatment made it pop!

@hugotorrado3948 3 дня назад

Very difficult trade, you master the cutting of precious stones, thank for the video. Best Regards.

@awesomeFrost 4 месяца назад

beautiful cut. The heat treatment really brought out the dark blues of that sapphire. the cloudiness might have worked out in their favor if they enjoy a deep navy blue

@fwiffo 6 месяцев назад

I'm having a lot of fun searching through Montana sapphire gravel. I don't cut gems myself, so I just (today) sent a parcel back to Gem Mountain to have them cut (and some heat treated as well). It'll be a bit of a wait, but I'm excited to see how they come back. I loved the natural color of this one, but it was pretty cloudy, so I think I would have gone with heat treatment too.

@katharinatrub1338 6 месяцев назад

Math, what a Beauty of a Gem you pulled out of your Magic Hat! I am in Awe! Yes, I love the way the Table became kind of a marquise Shape (sorry for my vocabulary). I am fascinated, hypnotized by watching you cutting Stones! Greetings from snowy Quebec.

@christinewebb1485 5 месяцев назад

When I 1st moved to this area a girl I worked with had a pink stone set in white gold. I asked what stone it was & she said a Pink Sapphires from her father's mine. It was amazing to visit with her dad when we went there.

@sandrapicton6349 6 месяцев назад

Gasp! What a beautiful stone you created, it looks gorgeous in its setting.

@pamelah6431 5 месяцев назад

God created the stone. He just cut it. :)

@nancyhainline2517 4 месяца назад

Wow. Have gone thru nuckets and buckets from Spokane Bar Mine. The sapphires I've retrieved have been small and fractured. Congratulations on a lovely find.

@slackwatters9604 6 месяцев назад

Haven't cut a sapphire over one and a half carat cut. Crappy part is that thing went flying and I can't find it. Beautiful work

@rochelem3872 6 месяцев назад

Yes you will :) It'll be sitting on your work bench one day, you'll see 🍀

@interestings7866 6 месяцев назад

Yo the cad and 3d work is awesome! So cool to see that process before you start cutting

@Gprince2121 6 месяцев назад

Dude, I love your channel, please Keep making videos. I’d really like to see more on the process of you designing the facets on the computer. Great work 👍🏻

@sproutingresilience4787 6 месяцев назад

Yay more Matt’s corner! I watched all of your videos when i first found your channel and was disappointment when there wasn’t more to watch!

@wigtea5620 4 месяца назад

That was the best stone I’ve ever seen

@iiniijewelry 4 месяца назад

Nice work! I live in Montana and am good friends with a lot of the local sapphire mines. Good people.

@mused1019 3 месяца назад

u have such a beautiful eye for this... im always watching.....😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

@user-do5hd7zb4x 4 месяца назад

Thank you! Have been wanting a gents white sapphire ring for approx. Three years. According to a book on mysticism the white sapphire us supposed to render special powers to piceans. Hence have been hoping to design a ring and find a nice big ten carrot white sapphire for myself. Your vidio has given me hope that in Montana I might find such a stone. Thank you for your beautiful vidio!

@Freerunx3 5 месяцев назад

I thought the gem looked a little weird but the ring designer really brought it all together and made it look awesome.

@denisecaster1251 6 месяцев назад

❤It actually turned out very pretty after the heat treatment! What a nice surprise! Very nice cut by the way!❤

@user-yu7qj4gw2u 5 месяцев назад

I can’t wait to see you cut the pink sapphire you found!! I’m also curious about that big, long one you said will make an incredible emerald cut!

@lil_jeweller 5 месяцев назад

I would like to watch you cutting a rough diamond 💎

@zac_m_c_glass 6 месяцев назад

Been blowing glass 10+ years now. Holding out for my $6-7k ultra tech lap. This end goals. Mostly w glass, but of course, gems as well.

@kdkrueger112 6 месяцев назад

Really enjoy these videos. Beautiful work

@kimical88 2 месяца назад

Very interesting. That machine is awesome.

@shreekantdeshpande2596 3 месяца назад

Sir, Aaj Aapane option selling ka poora raaj (Benefit) khol dia, thanks lot.

@user-rm3tm6mn6k 4 месяца назад

Like your work 😮

@sorayaya3080 6 месяцев назад

Really liked seeing the process of creating the diagram Gorgeous work as always!

@JBBrickFanatic 6 месяцев назад

Just found your channel! I’m loving the content. Keep it up!

@gemmaology781 3 месяца назад

Unpopular opinion but I love the cloudy greenish/grayish/blue of the montana sapphires 😍

@jennyblew 3 месяца назад

It's my niece's engagement ring!

@lewisgraham4235 4 месяца назад

Remarkable faceting skills. I use a VJ machine, I hope my cutting can get to your level.

@chasetoncain 6 месяцев назад

this is such a cool video i love watching the process! i noticed on a previous video that you use super glue to secure the stone and then wait about 12 hours for the glue to cure and i wonder if you’re familiar with CA glue? works the same as super glue, comes off with heat or acetone but can be sprayed to set instantly. it costs a decent bit more (i like starbond medium the best) but it might be worth looking into if it speeds up your process. keep up the good work it looks awesome!

@i.c.c.c.i.abdullahibnloren 6 месяцев назад

Howdy boss I would love to have one of my aquamarines cut by you ❤ I have a lot of large aquamarine

@jenniferbutcher8393 6 месяцев назад

Gorgeous!

@janicerooke7855 25 дней назад

Amazing work ❤

@heatherjones5983 5 месяцев назад

I liked the cloudiness ☁

@junedetla3324 5 месяцев назад

Awesome. Need to get myself to the dig area this year!!

@maxwellhberger8583 5 месяцев назад

Splendid to meet you fellow Geomancer.

@laurabaker8832 4 месяца назад

Wow. That's fantastic.

@centurione6489 6 месяцев назад

I didn't know that faceting gemstones was sooo easy. 🤣

@EvXXL97 Месяц назад

this stuff is so damn cool i love watching these videos

@theelementair96 6 месяцев назад

Damn do I love rocks

@acaciaremkes5043 6 месяцев назад

Wow! That's so awesome 😮

@openperspective 6 месяцев назад

Very cool to see the GamCAD action

@nikkan3810 5 месяцев назад

I like the soft spherical warp it does with this low clarity. Would actually prefer this to a clearer stone, feels more natural.

@sodalines 6 месяцев назад

ima sucker for a dial machine. i have the digital upgrade, but i like the dial better. great cutting brother.

@Vuk_Stajic 6 месяцев назад

Really cool channel Matt!

@soHatey 6 месяцев назад

Cool to see the computer program aswell.

@John-uz4et 6 месяцев назад

This might sound dumb but do gem cutters get inspiration from origami? I just noticed from your videos how similar facets are to the symmetry of origami folds

@Fambamm-ib6pw 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful work 👏

@yozzgun 6 месяцев назад

It seems fascinating! Iwant to cut my own gems too. Where can i learn this skill?

@jamesmudd2227 5 месяцев назад

Wow stone looks amazing, after you cut it and it was heat treated! What is the approximate value of the sapphire after being completely finished Matt ?

@user-li2jq5lc6o 6 месяцев назад

Your heartivhing skill I am your fan

@huangxiajing9986 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful

@cheryl2103 5 месяцев назад

Fascinating 👍

@cheryl2103 5 месяцев назад

New sub here.

@zm35r2bn 5 месяцев назад

IS all right THAT IS BREATH TAKING

@jeremykelley4990 6 месяцев назад

Keep em coming!

@marcushillen8680 6 месяцев назад

I'm a new subscriber and I love the content even though I don't know much about it. On the closeups of the stone where you're holding it, your nails tend to look beat up. idk if it's due to biting your nails(I do the same when I watch soccer) or if they get damaged from what you do for a living, but honestly with all the grits and shining and polishing and every other similarity to stone-cutting, nail care would probably be a cool side hobby for a guy who works on gems to pick up. Sorry if that's offensive, just something I noticed.

@filipazor606 6 месяцев назад

Amazing work, thank you for sharing the process. Its a shame it got treated, it looked stunning as it was.

@AneesMuhammed-mb4qz 6 месяцев назад

Thanks in advance. What is the procedure that how to identify which face is used for table?

@user-li2jq5lc6o 6 месяцев назад

Bro I am sridhar from Bharat your demo is extraordinary

@mablegray4141 6 месяцев назад

I have a plastic container full of little rocks that look like that...how do i get them polished up

@mahmodyahmady7280 6 месяцев назад

Colors some pieces black , brown , orangish grey and there pieces color pink , red about 20~50 carat with kimberlite stone

@LindaLanglitz642 6 месяцев назад

Exquisite!

@drake2421 6 месяцев назад

Hey Matt ! That's an amazing work you do ! Congrats! I wanna ask how you learn stone facetting, because I wanna try and mabye learn for doing it as a professionals. I begin to watch a lot of videos about facetting and I begin to understand how it works but finding a facetting machine is pretty expensive (I'm in France btw).... What's your advice and tips for begining as the hobbyist I am😀

@cliveb9771 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting !

@user-rc3dm1gv5g 4 месяца назад

Nice sir

@dawndare3949 6 месяцев назад

Fascinating

@acetydesfrancisco-hm9up 6 месяцев назад

Esse corte é fantasia? E safira não poli igual rubi, disco de cobre?

@Elena-gs2bv 4 месяца назад

Excellent🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

@davidkerr4137 6 месяцев назад

So I'm aware there are different colours of sapphire but do all blue sapphires need to be heat treated to get the classic sapphire blue look?

@adrianvaldez9102 14 дней назад

How did it turn blue in the end? Because of the heat treatment?

@valyncdk 6 месяцев назад

thanks for sharing your process! what lap are you using for the 600 grit? and what cutting laps do you suggest?

@robertrobbins5759 5 месяцев назад

Would you be interested in cutting another big quartz crystal like the one you did in the video

@Dogfoodsoup79 6 месяцев назад

Very cool to see the process. How long, approximately, does it take you to do a gem?

@danno5645 5 месяцев назад

I’m curious what you charge to facet a gem of the size. I’m interested in getting some gems faceted in the future.

@annhans3535 Месяц назад

How it looked so blue at the end?

@user-zl2nk2fy9t 3 месяца назад

l have one like this. what is this stone. name. how much price it can sale?

@scottpolo688 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful stone especially after heating! I was under the impression that if you heat a sapphire after its cut you have to repolish the facets …… does not appear to be the case with this stone?

@Mike.The.Jeweler 6 месяцев назад

most heat treaters will have a lap on site and they'll re-polish as a fee with the treating, much cheaper and easier to re-polish a stone rather than fully cut one from rough.

@amandagawith4822 4 месяца назад

How many different kinds of sapphires are there ?

@roseanneatkinson3022 6 месяцев назад

Do you cut stones for other people? I love your videos. I have a 1.3 ct of Tourmaline. Is it too small to cut?

@adrianasanches1683 4 месяца назад

Essa pedra é água marinha?

@laurenholloway4430 4 месяца назад

How much u charge to cut sum stone i have.

@user-gl8yv5uj7r 6 месяцев назад

شكرا لك انك رائع ❤

@Damonnanashi 6 месяцев назад

Well, I WAS going to ask what colour you thought a heat treat would give, but it showed up as i was typing it.

@Bikerack2 5 месяцев назад

I'm just curious to know what the gem is worth in dollars.

@Saywhatohno 3 месяца назад

where can i send the stone to get heat treated?

@54321Judith 5 месяцев назад

Why did the color change so dramatically after being heat treated?😲

@Wearestarstuff84 3 месяца назад

The cloudiness is caused by a mineral called rutile. The heating process reaches a temperature that is too low to melt sapphire, but high enough to melt the rutile. Once the rutile reaches the right temp, it diffuses into the sapphires crystal structure and produces the brilliant blue color.