My first faceted stones!
The purple one is amethyst (I'd say ametrine, but the rough was sold as amethyst), the green one aventurine and the red is lab sapphire.
The first 2 (amethyst and aventurine) I faceted them on a wonky homemade machine, and then the sapphire was my first on my new Fable mini faceting machine. All of them had a yield of about 30-35%, so not bad I guess.
About the cuts they are (or try to be, because mistakes did happen lol):
- Amethyst: Marco Voltolini's "Pandora" crown and Greg Glenn's "Silicon Blossom" pavilion
- Aventurine: Arya Akhavan's "Rectus Quadratus" double crown
- Lab sapphire: Robert Strickland's "Premiere Rose Replica" pavilion and "Compear 1.25" crown (and royally fucked that one up, had to adjust the angles to make them easier to achive with my machine -which only has an analog quadrant with a 1° precision- and completely changed the shape of it)
This took a lot of time of trial and error and getting a semi-proper set up, so I hope I'll be able to start getting more stones done quicker now.
Since where I live there is no easy (or any way, really) way to access to classes or machinery, I'm sure I'll have to bother you all with some questions from time to time, so please bear with me.
Currently working on a new lab sapphire, hope this one doesn't develop so much orange peel and refuses to polish properly like the previous one did! (This time I'm only cutting it with 400 and 600grit plated laps and then going to a resin bonded 3000 and 50000grit laps to finish it, so let's see how that goes).