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I don't see an answer here so I figured I'd add one. That symbol on the copper lap you didn't recognize is the alchemical symbol for copper.

I have 300 peaces of Red Beryl from Topaz Mnt What would I do with them?

Hello , great tutorial. One question about performance, so the relationship in between brightness and windowing in the graph means the higher the brightness and lower the windowing is better resulting in a shiny sparkling design ? Is that correct ? Thank you for your excellent tutorials !

Hello , great tutorial. One question, so the relationship in between brightness and windowing in the graph means the higher the brightness and lower the windowing is better resulting in a shiny sparkling design ? Is that correct ? Thank you for your excellent tutorials !

I really like your work. Your advice is very good. I learned the hard way about using 120 grit on rough. It just kept chipping. Thanks again for your time.

Enjoy this video and all your videos. Keep on making them .

I have cut some Steele designed pears - I like the ECED method pears and my students like the Jeff Graham pear designs. Jeff’s designs are a very introduction to do pears and the technical challenges they present. Mike where can I get a solid boule? Thanks

As far as pears go - I like FVS-130 for sapphire. It has the crushed ice effect.

How to apply 💎 width, hight, long gemcad for create cutting i am srilankan

Beautiful,Mike!Thanks' for all the great-information,as usual!💙🥂

A beautiful job , very nice, well done

Nice! Saw the post in faceting texhnical and I reckon you’ve covered the issues really well. PS The faceting diagram was for RI 1.54.. did you change the angles?

Another excellent tutorial Mike 👍. Do you cut the pavilion facets first before the girdle facets in order to give you room to work with? Thank you in advance.

Good video! However the music to me was a bit annoying and made it harder for me (about deaf) to concentrate on what you are saying. Thanks!

It almost is Amethyst in colour in your final pictures, absolutely beautiful, would love to see the final setting if possible,

Oh wow, the colour is fantastic ( still on the drop ,at this stage

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Hi Mike,I just have cut a few pear-shape designs. For the transfer, I sacrifice one of the cone dop. I gently cut part of the edge so cone can fit. This works great.ruclips.net/video/yXgxnP0qC9k/видео.htmlsi=5Kb7uak5MzO1SmJz

Another fantastic presentation Mike.... Thanks for sharing!

Good job...❤ Tell me pls.. do u prepolish table before the crown? Or you prepolish a finish polish at last? Or it depends on gem form and quality? Thank u

I’ve seen that Strickland did a good amount of pear designs. The one thing that I’ve noticed is that the most designs do a lot of brilliant cuts. I will admit that stone looks great and surprised that lab created corundum can be color change. I should see getting some.

Very informative and interesting. Thank you for creating this video. I think the result is smashing.

Josey wilds was here

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How many time do u take to mirror polish a facet ? I don't know if its my lap or my technique but it can take me 15 minutes more to polish a litle facet and i don't know if its normal ( i have a copper lap and path through 320 - 600 - 3000 - diamond paste polish ) on a aqua marine

Fun fact about its name. There is a major error happened in naming this gemstone "Padparadscha", by the industry. This is a loosely heard translation of actual name, which is originated in Sri Lanka. As name suggest, it means King of Flowers (which is lotus) Correct word/pronunciation should be "Padma-raja" (Padma - flower, Raja - King). This is a historic error, that deserved to be corrected ☺

This lap and that lap and does it really matter tin or copper or?

In the end despite it not being topaz it still had a lovely appearance, very nicely finished with the second cut you gave it , definitely made a difference to the faceted gem/glass 🤷 those that don’t know the difference would be easily fooled . 👍

Thank you very much. You are a good teacher 👍

Hello iam from kuwait and i have found a real moldavite in our beach black one if anyone is interested i can send him the pictures and if he can visit kuwait i show him the moldavite

Thank you for your generous input towards helping my own an others generational journey towards improving and appreciating every facet of faceting. Current eye on budget buy for cheap machine and laps, gearloose is a gem I likely won't pass. Thanks again.

I have ruby 6 gram what is the best cuuting style?

Many thanks! I downloaded the Gemcad Software and I've begun designing some of my dream gems. This series is just perfect to get started.

Enjoy your videos, I look forward to seeing them. Thank you for sharing them.

And not show the finished stone

Nice work Mike. Yes Morganite is expensive. That's a fantastic dark pink piece of rough.

Beautiful work! Thanks for showing more of the rough that you have, there's such a thrill going through rough, especially when you happen upon something truly exceptional!

The cut looked good, but it shows bluish on the video of the final cut?

I got to check out more of strickland’s designs. I’m trying to get a library of facet designs, and I will need to look into his designs more. I just want to render them then see what they look like. This one looks great.

You didn’t show the facets on the diagram?!! 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for another great video. If i was to put kite type cuts into gemcad would a design pop up. I haven't got a pc at the moment as we're travelling but do have a laptop at home. Thanks again for your time and effort.

Thanks for the great vid. We've got some zircons from Harts range Northern Territory Australia and i will certainly be trying to emulate your feat. Regards Nick Smith.

Hey Bopper, what polish do you think will be sufficient for synthetic corundums for a budget cutter, as im just new to faceting I’m using each side of a batt lap with batt sticks to polish but sceptical that a 3k pre polish and a 14k final will not be efficient, will a 3k to a 60k remove all scratches?

Explain me the definition of 100, 260,600 etc

Good job Mike.

I loved this video thank you the stone is exquisite

Very nice recut.

Curiosity is there a book on the critical angles of the various stones?

Another great video thanks! Your recut is SO much more attractive than that behemoth you started with. I didn’t see the starting weight - how was your yield? Had to be better than if you started from a rough stone.

Beautiful cut