Hand cut cabs and facetting

[metalsmith]

From tumbling (stones) things have developed over the past couple of years including cutting (small) slabs, shaping and cabbing - shaping cabochons - and polishing the lot now... facetting

My first facetted stone is a sard that comes from my very first lot of tumble stones. It always had grand ambitions and I always wondered what to do with tumble stones once they've been tumbled. Yes, well now I know about wire wrapping

A new Facetron arrived the other day and, well, its amazing.

Cutting facets on the sard this morning; it has been polished to 1200 but not yet to a really fine degree:

[mizgeorge]

Ooh! I'd love to see some bigger pictures please.

[josef1]

That looks cool, I would love a go at that myself one day !

[enigma]

Very pretty!

[metalsmith]

I tried posting a bigger image, but since the files are retrieved and cached locally, there's a filesize limit.

Sard as above.


Marble from Casarabonela, Sierra de las Nieves, Spain


Australian Variscite - hand cut


Whitby Jet

[josef1]

If you use photobucket (www.photobucket.com) and copy the link after you have uploaded the picture that says direct



then untick (not like the picture it has to not be ticked ) the box that says @remove file remotely' (or something like that !) I circled it ,when you click the photo icon on the forum



the forum will allow you to finally post big pictures !

[metalsmith]

Thanks Josef, I'm on Flickr, but same principle, thanks

[LydiaNiz]

hopefully have an official request after a meeting tomorrow!

[enigma]

Thanks for sharing, I always wondered how they worked!
Love the Variscite!

[-Sally-]

They look super! I would love to be able to make my own cabs. How long did it take you to complete a stone?
If I wanted to learn (probably cabbing rather than faceting) can you recomend a learning resource?
Sally