I have checked many faceting videos as I tried to learn the art....and honestly....This guy over here is the most detailed and insightful......it is thru his videos that i have been able to cut my first gem....He gives ALLL The details....the other videos dont guide well....they are so shallow...Thank you sir and God bless you.
Really cool series. Thanks for sharing. I had never realized just how much skill and work goes into faceting. I guess Im gonna need more than my bench grinder and dremel tool for this
Visited a gem mine and mined some stones and had them made for a memory. It was a beautiful experience and was very excited to see the finished product. I'm amazed at this craft. Wonderful and awesome. Thank you for these excellent demos.
MoreGems.com do you ever make a mistake and end up severely injuring your hand with those blades? Your hand is really close to them when you’re sanding the stone
Loved the video, two stones which are a couple of my absolute favorites. But that grinding... 😖... like nails on a chalkboard. I still gave it a thumbs up.
What a safe door! Kid=candy store. Your imagination must be consistently stimulated if you have so many stones to choose from! Thank you for those of us who may be lucky enough to get one of your pieces of work.
It is great! Always something new! We actually have 3 websites you can purchase our gems from if you're interested... www.MoreGems.com (various loose colored gems), as well as our tanzanite website www.TanzaniteJewelryDesigns.com, and finally our opal website www.OpalLust.com .
I use 5 minute epoxy and will heat the metal dop to 200+ degrees and the epoxy melts, thus making the removal easy. I know some stones cannot be heated, but you are only going to heat the dop which will come off before the stone heats up. I do wait overnight as the 5 minutes is only setup time and it doesn't harden fully for 4 hours or better. Temperature makes a difference with the epoxy. The lower the slower.
I always find it soo difficult to preform the area where I put the dop on the table. Like I have a pretty small stick of tourmaline and it's always ends up slightly slanted. Are there tools for this or is it just practice?
Attempting to facet a teapazoid shape 2.00 m x 3.08m x 1.25m dot is 1.10m you help me realize my glue may of went over the edge of the stone but what have you found to be the best epoxy for doting
Do gem cutters ever specialize in one ( or few ) stone? Or, can a gem cutter cut any stone? Do you ever facet diamonds? Or is that a specialized gem cutter?
Some do specialize but most cutters do a variety as the process is very similar for most gems with the exception of diamond due to its hardness. Diamond requires specialized equipment
hi, I been looking for refractol... I only found some on etsy and they won't ship to canada (I'm waiting for an answer about that) in the meantime i'd like to know where I can buy or If I can make some on my own. by the way, thank you for making all these videos, they're a big help. i'm a newbie to stone cutting (been cutting opals) I made some cool looking pieces but with your techniques I bet i'll be making much better quality stones, faster too. so thanks a lot. :)
Hey Jonathan! Thanks for watching! We've just started using wintergreen essential oil, which allows us to see into many stones. Refractol does seem more difficult to get, and may be a bit hazardous if used improperly. This essential oil basically makes a foggy surface clear. The closer the refractive index of the oil is to the stone, the easier it is to see into it. You can get it on amazon, the one we bought was by Majestic Pure comeceuticals. Hope this helps!
+matt kermani Thanks for watching! You can try gravescompany.com - You may be able to get it direct through them, or they'll send it to a distributor near you.
It's highly variable, it just depends on what step you're on during the cutting/polishing process (the lap you are using), the material you are cutting, and how much material your trying to cut off, and the speed of the lap.
Excellent instruction...but next time, if there is a next time, use a lavalier microphone. The "fingernails on the blackboard" screeching of the lap grinding makes my hair stand on end, and often overpowers what you are saying, teaching. A lav mike would solve both problems....
+MoreGems.com I was so intrigued by the process and really enjoying your thorough instruction that I completely tuned out the “nails on the chalkboard “ lol. Gemology was my least favorite subject in school, but maybe that’s because I didn’t have a teacher like Steve. Your love for this work is contagious and shines through. Thank you so much for generously sharing. I’m learning so much 😊😊
When that 'nails on a chalkboard' sound was going on the first grinding, my teeth literally started to hurt and my mouth started to water! like my ears told my brain I was at the dentist! Needless to say, I'm REAlly sensitive to some sounds.
How do I get involved in the gem cutting profession? I'm currently working in a pharmaceutical environment (legal please let's not go there) where my attention to detail is perhaps mis-employed, or not valued. (I'm the as$@*le who retains 4 points from nought) I think this kind of chemistry might be more "my thing"; yet I don't want to redo a masters.
Buy a cutting machine and start cutting! You can look to see if you have any local lapidary groups near you. They may be able to help you get started. Steve started out as a wholesale gem dealer, then started his own retail store where we now cut the gems, design the jewelry, and manufacture it all in house.
I do think it would be advantages to viewers, if you check the writen sub text with the words being spoken. Schist, Dop, other misses are important to the Faceters. I had to stop Faceting because what I was reading, because of the distraction of my Faceting Machine, I read while I Faceting. The written just doesn’t make sense with all of those made-up words. This is important information for us to know.
Deborah Duthie - I need to go through and edit these one day. These are auto generated by UA-cam and they don’t get it quite right. I will work on that one of these days. The newer videos with better audio do have a bit more accurate subs. Until then I would disable them and try to listen to just the audio.
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I have checked many faceting videos as I tried to learn the art....and honestly....This guy over here is the most detailed and insightful......it is thru his videos that i have been able to cut my first gem....He gives ALLL The details....the other videos dont guide well....they are so shallow...Thank you sir and God bless you.
Your welcome. More to come.
The sound when he sands the stone though. AAAGGH!!
it sounds like a whole class of kids scratching a chalk board with nails at the same time
This is the type of video that you should do more of, i love it. Thank You for doing these.
Hello sir
The sound of that wheel should've been the sound they used for the Nazgul in Lord of the rings
I just found your channel.
This whole playlist seems completely fascinating
Glad to hear you found us! If you want to see more, please feel free to subscribe! We add new content every week!
Thank you mr. Moriarty for taking the time to show this. I hope to learn more from you.
+R.M. H There should be a new video up within a couple days. Thanks for watching!
This kind of work seems very intense and highly perfectionist.
Really cool series. Thanks for sharing. I had never realized just how much skill and work goes into faceting. I guess Im gonna need more than my bench grinder and dremel tool for this
5:54 ... rip headphone users
Oh dear Lord, lol- I read your comment right when he started and it just made me laugh so hard thinking of how many people that happened to🤣
those precious hardworking hand😢thank you for sharing
Visited a gem mine and mined some stones and had them made for a memory. It was a beautiful experience and was very excited to see the finished product. I'm amazed at this craft. Wonderful and awesome. Thank you for these excellent demos.
Greetings from Australia Steve. I just started to learn cutting gems 4 weeks ago. Thank you for these videos. Regards Cliff
Greetings from Australia. Thanks so much for your videos they are VERY helpful to me as a dive into the world of faceting.
Thanks for sharing Steve. You are awesome!
OMGosh yay!
Thank you again for this upload.
Please keep them coming!
Do you wear ear protection? That noise would wake the dead...and kill them again.
+CoreyB88 Haha, no, it's not all that bad. Sometimes it does get a bit noisy though!
CoreyB88
You get used to it. Tables are the loudest.
hahahahahaha
MoreGems.com do you ever make a mistake and end up severely injuring your hand with those blades? Your hand is really close to them when you’re sanding the stone
Really enjoyed the video, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I love your videos on Faceting I have learnt so much from you. Thank you Steve.
+Wendy Purdie Thanks for watching!
You should have way more subs I wach these vids all the time
Glad you like to watch them!
I congratulate you,you are a very admired person
Loved the video, two stones which are a couple of my absolute favorites. But that grinding... 😖... like nails on a chalkboard. I still gave it a thumbs up.
We have tried to reduce the grinding in our new videos
What a safe door! Kid=candy store. Your imagination must be consistently stimulated if you have so many stones to choose from! Thank you for those of us who may be lucky enough to get one of your pieces of work.
It is great! Always something new! We actually have 3 websites you can purchase our gems from if you're interested... www.MoreGems.com (various loose colored gems), as well as our tanzanite website www.TanzaniteJewelryDesigns.com, and finally our opal website www.OpalLust.com .
Thank you so much for making these videos ,they are really helpful ,😀
can't wait to see the finished series
+Magnus “Desertunicorn” Anthony It's all finished : ua-cam.com/video/RGqxD8I4IKQ/v-deo.html
5:33 nails-on-chalkboard simulator !
I worse that nails on chalkboard.
It’s like really callused hands rubbing together except with sound.
Thanks for the video your way of cutting is awesome, different from mine... Namibia
Manfred Gomusab thanks Manfred there are many ways to get to a finely cut gem.
thanks for sharing steve . great info !
+Daniel B. You're welcome. More to come soon!
Thank you. Very informative video.
Your welcome
Thanks for these videos. They are great.
+amcarter Thanks for watching, let us know if you have any questions!
Awesome video thanks
What a useful video. Maybe I missed it, but did he say the name of the refraction liquid he's using?
I use wintergreen oil or methylene iodide. Wintergreen is safer.
You would love a JOOLTOOL. It lets you see through the wheel as you're shaping your stone so there's no guesswork.
I use 5 minute epoxy and will heat the metal dop to 200+ degrees and the epoxy melts, thus making the removal easy. I know some stones cannot be heated, but you are only going to heat the dop which will come off before the stone heats up. I do wait overnight as the 5 minutes is only setup time and it doesn't harden fully for 4 hours or better. Temperature makes a difference with the epoxy. The lower the slower.
Thank you for the great information
+jollymadhatter Thanks for watching! More to be added soon!
Awesome very nice
thank you Steve
Very informative. Potentially may be worth investing in an off camera mic
I always find it soo difficult to preform the area where I put the dop on the table. Like I have a pretty small stick of tourmaline and it's always ends up slightly slanted. Are there tools for this or is it just practice?
Attempting to facet a teapazoid shape 2.00 m x 3.08m x 1.25m dot is 1.10m you help me realize my glue may of went over the edge of the stone but what have you found to be the best epoxy for doting
Wow good work
Trabalho magnífico perfeito parabéns .
I have an Alpha Taurus machine and don't have dops that big. Where did you get yours at? My dops shank size is 5/16" with a keyed "V" groove.
That cutting disc at 5:35 how much grit is it? and is that a diamond disc or something else?
It is a 180 diamond disk.
Thanks! Great video!
+Peter Panes You're Welcome!
Fascinating
hi sir.. great job..
saru nadi thank you
Do gem cutters ever specialize in one ( or few ) stone? Or, can a gem cutter cut any stone? Do you ever facet diamonds? Or is that a specialized gem cutter?
Some do specialize but most cutters do a variety as the process is very similar for most gems with the exception of diamond due to its hardness. Diamond requires specialized equipment
Thanks for the Video.
+Tsavo Jewels You're welcome! More to come!
hi, I been looking for refractol... I only found some on etsy and they won't ship to canada (I'm waiting for an answer about that)
in the meantime i'd like to know where I can buy or If I can make some on my own.
by the way, thank you for making all these videos, they're a big help. i'm a newbie to stone cutting (been cutting opals) I made some cool looking pieces but with your techniques I bet i'll be making much better quality stones, faster too. so thanks a lot. :)
Hey Jonathan! Thanks for watching! We've just started using wintergreen essential oil, which allows us to
see into many stones. Refractol does seem more difficult to get, and may be a bit hazardous if used improperly. This essential oil basically makes a foggy surface clear. The
closer the refractive index of the oil is to the stone, the easier it is
to see into it. You can get it on amazon, the one we bought was by
Majestic Pure comeceuticals. Hope this helps!
+MoreGems.com that’s brilliant!!! thanks for sharing. i love your channel.
Where do you get the dops?
Is Refractol safe to use on hydrophane Welo opal or is it caustic to the optics of the opal?
I would assume it would get absorbed by Welo opal. Not safe.
@@Moregems Thabk you. That was my assumption. Too bad. It would be an awesome option.
Hello.Thank you for sharing this video ,i have a question ,where can i find (Refractol index ,liquid)?Thanks
+matt kermani Thanks for watching! You can try gravescompany.com - You may be able to get it direct through them, or they'll send it to a distributor near you.
Thank you so much
I have those stones... but there is no way I could get all that stuff to cut and clean. Maybe I should just sell my dreams.
Never give up on yourself!
Garnet muhteşem kareler 👍
Nice
could you estimate how much downward force do you use?(i understand it would vary based on hardness.)
It's highly variable, it just depends on what step you're on during the cutting/polishing process (the lap you are using), the material you are cutting, and how much material your trying to cut off, and the speed of the lap.
Steve what type of globe do you have in your light the wattage and type of globe is it incandescent or LED? Thank you Wendy
+Wendy Purdie Incandescent 75-100 watt.
+MoreGems.com Thank you Steve. I appreciate the help.
Hello sir I'm new into it and I don't have any idea about cutting gems can you pls tell me how to learn it to start a business ?? Pls do reply
Get a machine and follow my videos.
Большое СПАСИБО!!!!!!!!!!
amazing
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Rip to my ears when he was preforming 😲😬😬
I could not finish watching because of the sound.
Excellent instruction...but next time, if there is a next time, use a lavalier microphone.
The "fingernails on the blackboard" screeching of the lap grinding makes my hair stand on end,
and often overpowers what you are saying, teaching. A lav mike would solve both problems....
Hey Will, thanks for the feedback. We'll take a look into that microphone! Right now we're just using an iphone to to record these videos.
+MoreGems.com I was so intrigued by the process and really enjoying your thorough instruction that I completely tuned out the “nails on the chalkboard “ lol. Gemology was my least favorite subject in school, but maybe that’s because I didn’t have a teacher like Steve. Your love for this work is contagious and shines through. Thank you so much for generously sharing. I’m learning so much 😊😊
When that 'nails on a chalkboard' sound was going on the first grinding, my teeth literally started to hurt and my mouth started to water! like my ears told my brain I was at the dentist! Needless to say, I'm REAlly sensitive to some sounds.
Do you generally work on more than one gem at once?
Sometimes, because you have to glue up a stone and it takes quite a few hours. Then just start on another while the glue is drying on the other.
How do I get involved in the gem cutting profession? I'm currently working in a pharmaceutical environment (legal please let's not go there) where my attention to detail is perhaps mis-employed, or not valued.
(I'm the as$@*le who retains 4 points from nought)
I think this kind of chemistry might be more "my thing"; yet I don't want to redo a masters.
Buy a cutting machine and start cutting! You can look to see if you have any local lapidary groups near you. They may be able to help you get started. Steve started out as a wholesale gem dealer, then started his own retail store where we now cut the gems, design the jewelry, and manufacture it all in house.
And I thought nails on a chalkboard were annoying...
he sounds like Harrison Ford
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I do think it would be advantages to viewers, if you check the writen sub text with the words being spoken. Schist, Dop, other misses are important to the Faceters. I had to stop Faceting because what I was reading, because of the distraction of my Faceting Machine, I read while I Faceting. The written just doesn’t make sense with all of those made-up words. This is important information for us to know.
Deborah Duthie - I need to go through and edit these one day. These are auto generated by UA-cam and they don’t get it quite right. I will work on that one of these days. The newer videos with better audio do have a bit more accurate subs. Until then I would disable them and try to listen to just the audio.
Jesus, that 5:00 sanding mark. Cringe!
Make sure you have your volume turned down once he starts using the machine. I was not prepared for it whatsoever
Hi sir i have gemstone here phillippines treasure hunter hoping someone would like to buy thank you.
you need to talk louder an kip the mic far away from the grinding disc
Rip headphone users
thanks, now i'm deaf.
4:54 earrape
4:54? It's like half the video
Sound is not good.
Sorry, please try using headphones or louder external speakers. We've started using a microphone for our most recent videos.
This dude works in a walk-in safe?????
😪
Sorry about this but...