Beryls are my favourite gem stone species, this was such a treat and privilege to watch you work and creating a stunning faceted heliodore using an historic pattern. 🌞
Gorgeous , love it !! To avoid heating the stone and removing the wax with acetone, I usually put the dopped stone in the deep freezer for 15 minutes and the wax falls off bye itself. A very fine cut and beautiful piece.
An Absolute delight to watch. Thanks for breaking down your thought process for us all to see. There is so much that the Old Hand knows that the Green Horn cannot even see unless it is laid out as you have. Cheers mate~
I can’t understand why Heliodor is so little known and appreciated. It is lovely and I have several pieces of daffodil-colored Heliodor. This was a beautiful video, and your voice is soothing. I find that watching faceting is calming, unless it’s opal, in which case it’s almost scary. Watching artists create workarounds is fascinating. We bought a piece of glass art we had seen made specifically because the artist had to fix something gone awry. It’s the best story we have for a piece of art in our collection. Your finished stone is breathtaking.
Thank you. Yes its strange considering how popular emerald is. Same stone, different color! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I think the workarounds and problem solving are also a fascinating part of any makers art. Glad you feel the same :)
Wow, no idea how you managed that hand piece, I'm still on my 6 days Justin Prim video watching binge in anticipation of my VJ arriving end of next week. If only I could crate you up and ship you over to Australia to teach me!
This video was so cool! I am seriously considering starting to learn faceting soon, and your videos about the Sterlings had almost fully convinced me to try a hand piece machine instead of a mast machine... this video just totally sold me! The flexibility to account for variations makes the whole experience seem more zen and pleasant. I really enjoyed watching you account for that hole at the end, and you were right, you can't even tell. Beautiful, so impressive!
Just found your channel on YT. Really amazing waynof editing and explaning the faceting process. One question: I've seen that you published a book regarding faceting; Where can I buy it?
Hello. Thanks for the kind words. I keep trying to push my ability to express the faceting process in an interesting and attractive way! As for the book, you can find it here www.magusgems.com/product-page/the-secret-teachings-of-gemcutting
@@JustinKPrim I saw that the expedition to my country, which is Italy is quite expensive. Do you have a contact with an european shop which can sell this book? Or maybe do you sell the ebook? Is it on amazon for example? THANKS!
@@matteoobertoprospector sorry. It’s a small project and the shipping is expensive. If you wait until next year we will have a bunch of copies in France and can ship from there.
@@JustinKPrim perfect, may I write my contact to you in private? So we can stay in touch when that time arrives. I love collecting and reading faceting books, here in Italy I am a gold and gem prospector, moreover I am building my own lapidary laboratory.
This video was awesome! Do you always start with the crown. I learned to start with the pavilion to guarantee I have enough depth, as the crown is less critical if you are left with a slightly more shallow crown. I would love to hear your experience with the difference, as you are master and younger facetor compared to me.
Yes since switching to the Handpiece machine, I always cut crown first. Proper preforming solves the problem of having enough depth because you make sure there is no window before you start faceting. Crown first also let’s you have a really easy transfer because it’s flat table to flat dop. Maybe most importantly, when hand shaping ovals, cushions, and fancy shapes, where there isn’t a faceted girdle, it’s much easier for your eyes to see and balance your mains with a flat table in the middle than it is on the pavilion side. The culet point sticks up so much that it sort of messes with your eyes and makes it hard to see if the facets are balanced. Actually that was also the case in this stone. When balancing my outline shape in the video I use the shape of the table a lot to confirm perfect symmetry, though in this case a culet point would have been easy too, since the girdle could have been faceted afterwords. You can’t do that with smooth girdle cushions and such though. Also it’s not super intuitive on how to make a step cut pavilion when starting with a culet point. Hope that makes some sense.
True. No need to sweep during cutting. On this machine if you do you add in slight left to right angle irregularities on the facets. On polishing I sweep a lot.
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