I knew Gus Mollin. He and Ed McBride (a goldsmith) had a shop on Piedmont Ave in Oakland. Gus cut the stones, and Ed set them in original creations. Gus was also a machinist, and made a beautiful faceting machine called the 'Taylor'. It was made of all bronze and brass. I bought one in 1970 for I think $350 which was about two month's rent for my apartment at the time. Sperisen shows a photo of the Taylor in his book. I cut some damn nice stones with that machine. I liked a lot of things about it that were better than my UltraTek. Unfortunately I sold it 30 years later.
When he mentioned Gus I wondered if anyone knew his story. Thanks for sharing this! Isn’t it odd to think you might be mentioned/remembered years from now on some holographic version of RUclips?
Maybe a shortstorry about Amentrine or Aquamarin. It would be kind if you were starting a series about the History of Stones and how they were discovert.
Great video! I've faceted the pixel/opposed bar cut several times and it's definitely one of my favorite go-to designs! It's interesting to see how the design has changed and developed over time.
An excellent look at a popular stone. I think the Opposed Bar was probably my 10th stone as well. I did a couple tricky "checkered" cuts shortly thereafter, but the Opposed Bar was the lead-up to those. The Opposed Bar and Smithsonian Bar etc is an excellent cut especially for Low R.I. gems as it provides a sparkle that is difficult to obtain without a Brilliant-type cut (IMO).
Very informative video Justin, well done! I am currently cutting the "opposed bar 2" and working on a video for my channel. Cool history behind this cut, one of my personal favourites
Sad that there’s no more Lapidary Journal. I love some of these crazy, fancy cuts. Is this lens cut very tricky? I’m in San Francisco and today, I don’t see any of these bar or lens cut stones selling around here.
Just faceting related is about 100 books plus a large collection of periodicals. If I include Gems and jewelry books it’s much bigger maybe another 100 or 200 books. I love books. 😁
@@JustinKPrim omg it is crazy 🤣🤩 could you make one day a review of your library? For example the one you prefer, the ones needed for beginners, for advanced. For how love history and so on? I guess lots of people would love to know more 🙏🏻✨❤️ at least I would 😉💎✨
I knew Gus Mollin. He and Ed McBride (a goldsmith) had a shop on Piedmont Ave in Oakland.
Gus cut the stones, and Ed set them in original creations. Gus was also a machinist, and made a beautiful faceting machine called the 'Taylor'. It was made of all bronze and brass. I bought one in 1970 for I think $350 which was about two month's rent for my apartment at the time. Sperisen shows a photo of the Taylor in his book. I cut some damn nice stones with that machine. I liked a lot of things about it that were better than my UltraTek. Unfortunately I sold it 30 years later.
When he mentioned Gus I wondered if anyone knew his story. Thanks for sharing this! Isn’t it odd to think you might be mentioned/remembered years from now on some holographic version of RUclips?
It's funny how the simplest things can be so alluring. Fantastic presentation by the way! 👌
Agreed! Thanks
Yesterday I was thinking of an Video From you about the Smithsonian Bar! Here we go! Thx
You must be reading my mind. Can you tell me which one I’ll do next? I haven’t decided 🤣
Maybe a shortstorry about Amentrine or Aquamarin. It would be kind if you were starting a series about the History of Stones and how they were discovert.
Great research, great video. Thanks Justin for that.
Glad you liked it Steve. I like getting behind these mysterious and innovative cuts!
Impressive history of the pixel cut. Your research is much appreciated
Great video! I've faceted the pixel/opposed bar cut several times and it's definitely one of my favorite go-to designs!
It's interesting to see how the design has changed and developed over time.
I agree. Sometimes I go into the research with no clue and I end up finding out so much. A lot of the connections in this story really surprised me.
Thanks for sharing I really love this video showing the behind the scenes of gem desing!
Thank for watching. I enjoy the behind the scenes as well
Cool show.
Those generated gems are awesome.
An excellent look at a popular stone.
I think the Opposed Bar was probably my 10th stone as well. I did a couple tricky "checkered" cuts shortly thereafter, but the Opposed Bar was the lead-up to those.
The Opposed Bar and Smithsonian Bar etc is an excellent cut especially for Low R.I. gems as it provides a sparkle that is difficult to obtain without a Brilliant-type cut (IMO).
I definitely agree!
This is beautiful, thank you very well put together.
Very informative video Justin, well done! I am currently cutting the "opposed bar 2" and working on a video for my channel. Cool history behind this cut, one of my personal favourites
Thank you for providing text bits with proper spellings of names, etc. Had been going to ask
I do what I can. Thanks for watching
The video is a result of hard work
Great work on this video. I really enjoyed hearing Jordan share his story.
Thanks , I had fun discovering all this stuff and especially hearing Jordan’s story. I didn’t know it had become such a big deal.
Enjoyed the story thank you
Awesome video. Thanks for the background on this cut.
Glad you enjoyed it. I learned a lot I didn’t know in the process of making the video
that was utterly fascinating - thank you Justin
Thanks for watching
Aloha Justin! Great video- now I got to try to cut one 👍🏼
They’re not too hard and fun too!
Fantastic video!
nice video education thanks Justin , maybe this design is not so difficult for beginner
Yes I agree. Beginner friendly!
Amazing cut
Sad that there’s no more Lapidary Journal. I love some of these crazy, fancy cuts. Is this lens cut very tricky? I’m in San Francisco and today, I don’t see any of these bar or lens cut stones selling around here.
No its pretty easy. Just a bunch of parallel rectangles. Give it a try and show us how you do!
That is really appealing in many variations. 🤩🤩🥳
Great work
Hi Justin. What machine did you cut your sample’s on?.themast or the handpiece machine .😎🐈⬛🇦🇺
I think it was on the Handpiece
great video
Thanks!
Sir, please tell me on what grid you do your preform?
Great video I want one.
The 'censored' cut.
So now we need the Prim cut
Working on it!
is it possible to cut opal with this kind of cut
I don’t think it would do much unless the Opal is very transparent.
Just for my own interest, and maybe more people, how big is your faceting books library? How many books do you have?
Just faceting related is about 100 books plus a large collection of periodicals. If I include Gems and jewelry books it’s much bigger maybe another 100 or 200 books. I love books. 😁
@@JustinKPrim omg it is crazy 🤣🤩 could you make one day a review of your library? For example the one you prefer, the ones needed for beginners, for advanced. For how love history and so on? I guess lots of people would love to know more 🙏🏻✨❤️ at least I would 😉💎✨
Hi Justin, where abouts are you in Bangkok? I have a few good stones which I would like to discuss with you for custom cutting. Thanks
Hello we moved to France last summer so we’re no longer in bangkok. Sorry.
@@JustinKPrim Thanks very much for your prompt reply, is there anyone else in Bangkok you would recommend for beautiful cutting like yours.
@@wqkhn593 we have a cutting factory that we are partnered with for this. Please email me. justinkprim at gmail dot com
How I can join to your class?
email me. Justin k prim at gmail dot com