I cut the Montana Sapphire that my daughter found after getting it heat treated 

Your daughter will cherish that beautiful work of Natural Art combined with your talent, her luck in finding it, and just plain ole Dad gifts getting her out in nature and showing where the real gems come from.

I couldn't help but think since his daughter found this sapphire, how marvelous it would be to set it in a ring for her to wear- especially for her wedding, something blue!

How sweet that your daughter found it and that you cut it for her- omg! 💙 you could mount it in a ring 💍 for when she’s older - it would be so special 💙

How beautiful this sapphire has turned out! and how happy and proud your little Daughter must be to have a Stone she found her self and Daddy cut it!! I like your cut, it feels to me like a little Flower of 'Forget-me-not'.

Your daughter found a gorgeous sapphire which was made more meaningful because you cut it for her. It will become a treasured piece of jewelry that she can hand down to her future children. The story behind how she found it and how you cut it will add not only to the story of how she found it, but to make it more meaningful and special because her father cut it so that it could be set in a ring or other piece of jewelry adds to its history and why it is so special. When I was 7 years old my Aunt Carol ,who is my Dad's older sister and who I'm named after, had a special ring made for me. She had a diamond from her engagement ring set into a special ring that she had made for me. I was completely surprised and a bit overwhelmed by such an amazing and meaningful gift. I treasured it and I never took it off. One night after dinner my two younger sisters and I were going to take a bath before going to bed. Dad told me to put the ring on his dresser before getting in the bathtub. It was the last time I saw my ring. I had forgotten to go get it after getting out of the bathtub and it was a day or two before I remembered to go get it only to discover that it wasn't where I had placed it. I immediately went to ask Dad about it thinking that he might have put it in a safe place, but he was just as surprised and shocked that it wasn't where I had put it and where he had seen it that night. He removed everything from the top of his dresser and then he went through each drawer and it was gone. I cried buckets full of tears because I was crushed that it had been lost/taken from me. I still have the ring box to came in. Many years later Dad told me what he thought had happened with my ring. He thought that one of my older siblings had taken it in order to buy drugs because they were drug addicts. The diamond was a half caret and virtually flawless. He made me promise not to tell my Aunt that it had disappeared because she would have tried to replace it which would have been quite expensive given the size and quality of the diamond. I was crushed by its disappearance as it had been the most special gift that I had ever been given up to that point in my life. I still don't know for sure which of my siblings took it because I have 7 siblings and two of them couldn't have done it because my brother had passed away before I was born and the other one was married and hadn't been in the house for 9 months and most of the other siblings were to little to have taken it and done anything with it. Plus they didn't become drug addicts until they were much older.

i always wondered how these were cut. your video popped up in my feed....and i enjoyed watching the video immensely. thank you!

That sapphire turned out sooo gorgeous!

Wow! The colour from the Final Cut is stunning, and the visible colour zoning through the pavilion is a beautiful feature. I’d love to see this through my loupe.

Your daughter must be so proud of both of you. Beautiful gem.

Family heirloom now. 👍. Beautiful.

Its amazing to me to see how beautiful a rough stone can turn out... i will definitely be watching more of your videos...

Wow!!! Amazing cut I love the hexagon shape.

I have 1 Montana Sapphire but not as beautiful as that one. Although I have a bag of Rough Sapphires and Garnets from up there in Montana that I searched for, I have always wanted one like the one you cut, because it is my birthstone. Your daughter will always cherish it, fof sure! Cheers 👍

Tons of fire to that stone it carries light beautifully

May God bless your daughter for finding this piece. She will become good at finding more gemstones in the future since you are teaching her more about them. Stay blessed and may God bless all of you and the rest of your family in all you all do.

Very, very nice, the whole story, from go to woe! Everybody’s happy, especially your lucky daughter. So glad she’s enjoying the great outdoors too.😊

Fascinating to see how a stone is cut. Thanks for showing us.

This was the first video of yours that I watched. I am really glad I found you, this was amazing and so interesting to see how you cut a sapphire! I would love to try this! Thank you for sharing this wonderful skill and art!

I was looking through the comment section ,and might I say,what an awesome bunch of people your subscribers are. So I subscribed too caus I’m hooked now 😍😍

What a beautiful gesture and that stone is the MOST beautiful I’ve ever seen

Nice! I've always wanted to do this kind of stuff. I used to buy sapphire dirt every once and awhile from Gem Mountain, but the ability to get some good gemstones dropped off dramatically after my first purchase. Thanks for the show of how you cut your sapphire!

THat turned out beautiful, far better than I expected from what the rough looked like. great job.

I think I may have just found a new hobby! Thanks Mat!

Wow. That's some beautiful find.

Excellent looking gemstone. Very nicely cut. I'd love to get my hands on a couple good sized rough stones to cut myself. :)

She’s so f*****g ADORABLE 😭😭

Wow that is stunning!

Wow, that turned out gorgeous!

This was wonderfully educational! Beautiful work cutting the stone - many congratulations to your daughter on her exceptional find!!!

That's absolutely gorgeous!

STUNNING SAPPHIRE!

This is so fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing your talent. I appreciate it very much.

Talent and Nature at it's best! Congratulations!

That was so amazingly cool.

Fascinating work and gorgeous sapphire.

the light is crawling around the gem. amazing

Very nicely done.

That stone is an eye popper! Have yet to find any close to that! Have a bag of sapphires I should do something with eventually, but nothing that cool!

WOW! you are very talented, it turned out beautiful

You better save that for your daughter now. She did find it. Nice job cutting it

That's a beautiful cut ❤

Nice to see someone go out looking for stones with his daughter and doing the cutting too. I used to go out to one of the few places in the Netherlands with my dad to look for pyrite mostly, there's not much else in the ground here. Maybe some celestite

What a spectacular gem, and that cut really does accentuate it wonderfully.

Your amazingly talented!!! Love the deep color!!

Love your talent! Beautiful cut to a beautiful stone, and a beautiful daughter's good eye!😊

Great cut!

That stone turned out great!

Amazing results!!!

I hope you save this lovely stone for your daughter.

Fascinating work. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and gift with us.

Absolutely stunning! What a keepsake for your family. Such talent as well.

Amazing. I had no idea how these beautiful gems were cut.

The process was amazing to watch and what a fantastic result. Thank you for sharing the info and making these videos!

She must feel like a million bucks in the world. Moreover, this is unaffordable because this has a memory with it. Beautiful stone.

Stunning!

This must be the most beautiful cut I’ve ever seen!

Beautiful stone and work congratulations!

Really outstandingly beautiful!! Great talent.

WOW! Stunning!

It did turn out to be a lovely stone. have some beautiful medium dark blue color and looks pretty clean at least on the computer screen. Nicely done sir.

That was awesome, Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely beautiful ❤ I have a lot of patience but I don’t think I have this much patience wow. You do amazing work!

HI! This was Very interesting, and Sapphire turned out Really Nice. Thanks!

That’s gorgeous!

Stunning Matt. I wonder if you are going to make a necklace for your daughter out of all the pretty coloured gems you both found. That saturation of the Montana Saphire is glorious.

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for the hard work uploading etc. Thanks.

Wow, this is stunning!

Amazing work! Thanks for sharing

Beautiful ice rose 😮

ooh, that's a really beautiful cut

Am impressed that it only takes super glue to hold that Dopp stick on. The best this side of Brooklyn and the Amsterdam diamond cutters!

Well, there is my biggest heated Montana Sapphire for this year!

Great job!!!😊

What a beautiful stone.

Nice work, beautiful stone….👍🏻😎

What u do is amazing!!!

Beautiful!

Damn that stone looks way nicer cut. You did a great job that stone is gorgeous! I'd love to see what you were able to do with the rest of em.

This is fascinating!

You do a beautiful job one wouldn't expect perfection because the stone itself is not you know it's not been cut perfectly to begin with so a little lopsidedness is to be expected but it's beautifully done the way you've done it I'm speaking as somebody who used to be in this business and no longer is my hands don't work anymore so I can admire the work of others, you do very fine work, your daughter is very lucky.

nice finish

I saw a documentary on gem mining in Sri Lanka. The heat treatment was done over a charcoal brazier, the man entrusted to do it was considered the most important member of the mining to sale process.

So beautiful! ❤️

That looks amazing. I’ve always wanted to learn how to cut gems

Gorgeous!

Gorgeous!!!

So cool!! Very beautiful. 💎

That was super interesting. Thx for sharing.

Lovely job, very nice video

Zoning out on ytube.... then I saw this video !! 😊❤It's so cool amazing 👏 just subscribed 👍👍

I've always wanted to hunt for Montana sapphires, but I just can't travel, unfortunately. So I finally broke down and ordered some mail order gravel. I didn't expect it to be cost effective to get a bunch of rocks in the mail, but I found quite a few gem-quality sapphires over a carat. I can't cut them myself, but it's worth the money to have them send them out to be cut (and some heat treated). It's not a retirement plan, but it's a ton of fun, and if the value of the stones at least offsets the cost of the gravel I can have more fun more often. I'm trying out all the different sources of mail-order sapphire gravel. So far Gem Mountain's cowboy boot and mega jug (which are concentrated gravel from their wash plant) are the best fun/$. They have literally hundreds of sapphires. They're mostly small, but the mega jug by itself had over 2 dozen facetable stones over a carat. The Eldorado Bar (and Spokane Bar) concentrates have a lot fewer tiny stones, but so far I haven't found anything big (the biggest was 2.6 carats, which is only slightly bigger than the biggest Gem Mountain ones I've found). My favorite I've found is a weird purple one that is also somehow orange sometimes. It's barely 70 points, but it's cone-shaped so maybe it'll have enough yield to come out as more than a speck.

I thought from the thumbnail you turned a sapphire into a D20 lol.

The bright yellow sapphire would be lovely as a single stud for asymmetrical wear. Set it in white gold or platinum with a surround of even smaller clear stones like white topaz, cubic zirconia, moissanite, or another diamond alternative and it would be lovely.

Enjoyed the video! Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your experience ✌I am learning from your videos 🙂

This is fascinating to watch.

beautiful stone

That gem ended up gorgeous!

Amazing!!

I'm pretty sure I have that same polo. Costco for the win. Great work on the stone by the way!