I cut the Montana Sapphire that my daughter found after getting it heat treated
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- A few months ago I posted a video about my trip to find sapphires in Montana. Recently, I got back the sapphires that I left to be heat treated at the Gem Mountain Sapphire Mine. I show how I facet the largest sapphire that we had heated which happens to be the one that my daughter found. From found to finished, this stone goes through an amazing transformation!
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Your daughter will cherish that beautiful work of Natural Art combined with your talent, her luck in finding it, and just plain ole Dad gifts getting her out in nature and showing where the real gems come from.
Absolutely!! Maybe she will wear it on a necklace or a ring?🙂❤️
I couldn't help but think since his daughter found this sapphire, how marvelous it would be to set it in a ring for her to wear- especially for her wedding, something blue!
That is a beautiful idea!!!!
Yes😊
Beautiful stone .
An old stone, in a new ring, borrowed from the earth, and as blue as the sky.
How sweet that your daughter found it and that you cut it for her- omg! 💙 you could mount it in a ring 💍 for when she’s older - it would be so special 💙
How beautiful this sapphire has turned out! and how happy and proud your little Daughter must be to have a Stone she found her self and Daddy cut it!! I like your cut, it feels to me like a little Flower of 'Forget-me-not'.
Well, there is my biggest heated Montana Sapphire for this year!
absolutely gorgeous stone and cut Congratulations!
Your biggest Montana Sapphire on a family vacation, I think I heard you say.
(thats incredible, I BET a memory of a LIFETIME for your daughter to FIND it)
In the gravel you were letting her, I think I heard you said, explore through. Family, the treasures of a life time. Memories is what we take with us.
Memories and life lessons - just incredible finds.
Thanks!@@mtnvalley9298
We did find a few bigger sapphires at a different mine, but that was the biggest one that was found this year at the Gem Mountain Sapphire mine. It is also the biggest one that we had heat treated. My daughter will always remember finding that sapphire now that I've made a video about it. So, it is one we have to keep for her.@@e.s.l.1083
@@MattsCornerofGemCutting BLISS !
Keep on Keeping ON - i am so touched, & ty for sharing it with ALL OF US.
Time is such A TREASURE. HOW momentous, this is a *TIME CAPSULE* then *filled to the brim* ... carry on... BLISS ❤ ))))))))))))
i always wondered how these were cut. your video popped up in my feed....and i enjoyed watching the video immensely. thank you!
Wow! The colour from the Final Cut is stunning, and the visible colour zoning through the pavilion is a beautiful feature. I’d love to see this through my loupe.
I was looking through the comment section ,and might I say,what an awesome bunch of people your subscribers are. So I subscribed too caus I’m hooked now 😍😍
Your daughter found a gorgeous sapphire which was made more meaningful because you cut it for her. It will become a treasured piece of jewelry that she can hand down to her future children. The story behind how she found it and how you cut it will add not only to the story of how she found it, but to make it more meaningful and special because her father cut it so that it could be set in a ring or other piece of jewelry adds to its history and why it is so special. When I was 7 years old my Aunt Carol ,who is my Dad's older sister and who I'm named after, had a special ring made for me. She had a diamond from her engagement ring set into a special ring that she had made for me. I was completely surprised and a bit overwhelmed by such an amazing and meaningful gift. I treasured it and I never took it off. One night after dinner my two younger sisters and I were going to take a bath before going to bed. Dad told me to put the ring on his dresser before getting in the bathtub. It was the last time I saw my ring. I had forgotten to go get it after getting out of the bathtub and it was a day or two before I remembered to go get it only to discover that it wasn't where I had placed it. I immediately went to ask Dad about it thinking that he might have put it in a safe place, but he was just as surprised and shocked that it wasn't where I had put it and where he had seen it that night. He removed everything from the top of his dresser and then he went through each drawer and it was gone. I cried buckets full of tears because I was crushed that it had been lost/taken from me. I still have the ring box to came in. Many years later Dad told me what he thought had happened with my ring. He thought that one of my older siblings had taken it in order to buy drugs because they were drug addicts. The diamond was a half caret and virtually flawless. He made me promise not to tell my Aunt that it had disappeared because she would have tried to replace it which would have been quite expensive given the size and quality of the diamond. I was crushed by its disappearance as it had been the most special gift that I had ever been given up to that point in my life. I still don't know for sure which of my siblings took it because I have 7 siblings and two of them couldn't have done it because my brother had passed away before I was born and the other one was married and hadn't been in the house for 9 months and most of the other siblings were to little to have taken it and done anything with it. Plus they didn't become drug addicts until they were much older.
Its amazing to me to see how beautiful a rough stone can turn out... i will definitely be watching more of your videos...
Wow!!! Amazing cut I love the hexagon shape.
Excellent looking gemstone. Very nicely cut.
I'd love to get my hands on a couple good sized rough stones to cut myself. :)
That sapphire turned out sooo gorgeous!
This is so fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing your talent. I appreciate it very much.
Nice! I've always wanted to do this kind of stuff. I used to buy sapphire dirt every once and awhile from Gem Mountain, but the ability to get some good gemstones dropped off dramatically after my first purchase. Thanks for the show of how you cut your sapphire!
THat turned out beautiful, far better than I expected from what the rough looked like. great job.
I have 1 Montana Sapphire but not as beautiful as that one. Although I have a bag of Rough Sapphires and Garnets from up there in Montana that I searched for, I have always wanted one like the one you cut, because it is my birthstone. Your daughter will always cherish it, fof sure!
Cheers 👍
Your daughter must be so proud of both of you. Beautiful gem.
Yes.🙂❤️
That stone is an eye popper! Have yet to find any close to that! Have a bag of sapphires I should do something with eventually, but nothing that cool!
I usually prefer gem stones to be untreated, but admittedly this sapphire turned out to be a real beauty! Of course it also helps that I really like hexagonal and octagonal shapes. :D
As has been said before, would make a special piece of jewellery when your daughter will be a bit older. A sapphire she found as a kid and her dad has cut. If you even read comments on older videos, one thing I like to add: Most content creators don't have backups of their videos once they are uploaded. But in this case it would be a good thing to keep backups of it, so it won't get lost and she can watch it after receiving the stone (if you intented to give it to her this means).
I've always wanted to hunt for Montana sapphires, but I just can't travel, unfortunately. So I finally broke down and ordered some mail order gravel. I didn't expect it to be cost effective to get a bunch of rocks in the mail, but I found quite a few gem-quality sapphires over a carat. I can't cut them myself, but it's worth the money to have them send them out to be cut (and some heat treated). It's not a retirement plan, but it's a ton of fun, and if the value of the stones at least offsets the cost of the gravel I can have more fun more often.
I'm trying out all the different sources of mail-order sapphire gravel. So far Gem Mountain's cowboy boot and mega jug (which are concentrated gravel from their wash plant) are the best fun/$. They have literally hundreds of sapphires. They're mostly small, but the mega jug by itself had over 2 dozen facetable stones over a carat. The Eldorado Bar (and Spokane Bar) concentrates have a lot fewer tiny stones, but so far I haven't found anything big (the biggest was 2.6 carats, which is only slightly bigger than the biggest Gem Mountain ones I've found).
My favorite I've found is a weird purple one that is also somehow orange sometimes. It's barely 70 points, but it's cone-shaped so maybe it'll have enough yield to come out as more than a speck.
As a kid I saw this art briefly on tv in the 80’s. Immediately I wanted a turn. I still remember the look of shock and horror on my Moms face when she discovered me in the lounge room polishing and cutting some driveway rocks on her 45 turntable 🤓😳
Stunning Matt. I wonder if you are going to make a necklace for your daughter out of all the pretty coloured gems you both found. That saturation of the Montana Saphire is glorious.
Love your videos. I also have trouble watching them because the music is painful.
Wow. That's some beautiful find.
Tons of fire to that stone it carries light beautifully
Thank you this was relaxing and informative.
Family heirloom now. 👍. Beautiful.
Simply GoRgEoUs 👍 LoVe yr work 💎
Please do a video without the annoying background music
I thought from the thumbnail you turned a sapphire into a D20 lol.
Talent and Nature at it's best! Congratulations!
I saw a documentary on gem mining in Sri Lanka. The heat treatment was done over a charcoal brazier, the man entrusted to do it was considered the most important member of the mining to sale process.
Yeah, that's a bit of work! These sapphires were heated by Gem Mountain in a kiln with a controlled environment.
That was so amazingly cool.
HI! This was Very interesting, and Sapphire turned out Really Nice. Thanks!
Great cut!
Oh I wish you would choose classical or classical-like music to accompany this elegant, aesthetic artwork ..
The music made it nearly unwatchable- and I hate to say it as your work is beautiful
🎉Beautiful. I'm wondering, so many were a pretty light color not heat treated. Will you be doing a group not heat treated?
I have cut more unheated sapphires than heated. You can see a lot in my Etsy store: maxfieldlapidary.etsy.com I filmed content for a video that has some of both a couple months ago now that I still need to get the editing done for.
Would be great of you tell us the expected value for it
I think I may have just found a new hobby! Thanks Mat!
Beautiful Sapphire 💙 I need more information on heat treating the stone. What's the process? It does enhance the color quality. What about the value on any gemstone?
Heat treating sapphires is a process of heating the stones in a controlled environment at very high heat over a long period of time. The process breaks down and disperses the inclusions/impurities within the stone that are responsible for giving the stone color. Heat treating often improves the color and clarity but isn't guaranteed to. If the color of the stone becomes a more desirable color like if a mirky yellow green stone heats to a crisper blue, the value increases. Not all types of stones can be enhanced through heating, and the ones that can have their own form of heating process depending on stone type.
ooh, that's a really beautiful cut
That's a beautiful cut ❤
I am going to start watching your youtube videos. I own and operate a facetron.
nice finish
Beautiful ice rose 😮
Is this Saphire from Utica MT. a yogo I got mine there 38 years ago
It is not Yogo. It is from the Gem Mountain Sapphire Mine.
Your amazingly talented!!! Love the deep color!!
You better save that for your daughter now. She did find it. Nice job cutting it
Thanks! We are holding on to it for her.
@@MattsCornerofGemCutting You're a great dad. Nice job
Very nicely done.
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Fascinating to see how a stone is cut. Thanks for showing us.
WOOOW!!!! Final result make me speechless.. 😬😬🤯🤯🤯 I wish to live in country where I can find any raw stones and learn to cut them...but at first need find some faceting machine for start this adventure... wish me luck, and best wishes for You and your family.. Keep going, we want see more of your work.. 😉😊
Nice to see someone go out looking for stones with his daughter and doing the cutting too. I used to go out to one of the few places in the Netherlands with my dad to look for pyrite mostly, there's not much else in the ground here. Maybe some celestite
I always wondered how they cut gems so precisely
My favorite shape! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ if you enlongate slightly like ancient geometry star of david. . . It'd be perfection. Still exquisite!
Absolutely beautiful ❤ I have a lot of patience but I don’t think I have this much patience wow. You do amazing work!
i LOVE finding sapphires from Montana. the only way i could do so though is through ore boxes from a mine that provided said service for a while. so far the largest gem i found was 2.5 carats. and in number ive found over 400 sapphires, all mostly very small and most relatively flat. i dream of finding a double digit carat gem though, maybe some day, when that mine can send out more boxes of ore again lol. perhaps some of the gems i have found could be faceted though, but most are just too small i think.
STUNNING SAPPHIRE!
My favorite ring is set with bright pink saphires. I was given the choice of the same ring in white diamonds in white gold but I chose the pink in yellow gold. It came from the company 'Fred' in Paris, it's a happy ring.
The process was amazing to watch and what a fantastic result. Thank you for sharing the info and making these videos!
Omg it’s so pretty!! Often natural stone looks way better before cutting but this one turned out so beautifully!!
Yikes, I'd be wearing headphones 100%. Cool though! Ever get any Montana garnets for cutting?
what si the value of that
WOW! you are very talented, it turned out beautiful
Gorgeous!!!
Zoning out on ytube.... then I saw this video !! 😊❤It's so cool amazing 👏 just subscribed 👍👍
This is fascinating!
The guy i watch doing opals must be a master doesnt do that flattening and centering for the sticky stick. They come out gorgeously.
There's something about the way they look raw that I just like I don't know why???? Can anyone explain that to me I mean it's obvious that they're more aesthetically pleasing after they're cut and Polished but why do I like them so much the way they come out of the ground??????? I don't get myself?
Wow was i dumb. I always thought sapphires came out of the ground blue. Never knew they were man heat treated.
I knew of white sapphires of course, seems they are replacing diamonds in alot of jewelry now adays.
The one you found in gravel that was already pink. But you heat treated it. Seems to me, lost some of its pink, but the other one came out real orange.
Learned alot. Thank you
أتمنا في حياتي أن تكون لي ألة تقطيع ونحت مثل هاته ،رائعة ماشاء الله ❤🙂
Great job!!!😊
Wow, that turned out gorgeous!
Fascinating work. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and gift with us.
The bright yellow sapphire would be lovely as a single stud for asymmetrical wear. Set it in white gold or platinum with a surround of even smaller clear stones like white topaz, cubic zirconia, moissanite, or another diamond alternative and it would be lovely.
It did turn out to be a lovely stone. have some beautiful medium dark blue color and looks pretty clean at least on the computer screen. Nicely done sir.
Beautiful, what’s the cut type called please?
It is a custom design, but it is mostly Portuguese like.
Wow that is stunning!
Wow, this is stunning!
Thank you!
We were there six or seven years ago, and came out with several nice size rough stones, including a lighter aqua 6ct one.
It is still in its natural condition, while we search for someone up in Alberta to heat treat and cut.
Thanks for showing me how beautiful it can be.
Do you know of any cutters up in Canada, or where we can find one?
You should use tolulene.... Acetone reacts to fast and in the long run it makes the stone brittle... Tolulene allows you to work with a slower reaction and drying and working time... I'm a stone Mason and fabricator...
Very nice.
How much does it cost to buy a lapidary machine, I'd like to have one but new,...
This was the first video of yours that I watched. I am really glad I found you, this was amazing and so interesting to see how you cut a sapphire! I would love to try this! Thank you for sharing this wonderful skill and art!
That stone turned out great!
Thank you for sharing your experience ✌I am learning from your videos 🙂
Thanks! I've been very slow at getting videos out, but I hope to get started on some more in depth how to cut videos here in the near future.
Gorgeous sapphire. Will you let your daughter keep this stone, since she found it? Maybe make it into a necklace pendant for her?
These are real? Surely that "peachy" one is gonna be worth a bomb? A padparascha with suspended nectarine inclusion 😂
This is probably a dumb question but do you still any of the stones that you cut and polish and if so how much are such a thing going to cost, I'm a metalsmith I design jewelry and I used to make jewelry I don't have my hands working at the moment so I can't really do much and that's why when I see somebody doing a really nice job I would like to get from them the goods that I've seen them make I know that's for your daughter that stone I was wondering if you have any of your stones that have been cut and polished for sale.
very interesting and thanks for posting . question? your final grit is 30,000 and if I hear correctly you went from 3000 to 30000 . true?
Nice brother
Very, very nice, the whole story, from go to woe! Everybody’s happy, especially your lucky daughter. So glad she’s enjoying the great outdoors too.😊
She’s so f*****g ADORABLE 😭😭
I learned a lot watching this. The music is much better on this video.
You did a great job on that sapphire 👍 how much would you normally charge for a stone like that ? with you providing the stone .
Beautiful!
Amazing. I had no idea how these beautiful gems were cut.
Obviously, has huge sentimental value. Just wondering what the cost to get it without labor and value of stone if sold.
That's absolutely gorgeous!
I absolutely love the color of these stones. I know why they are so expensive, but I wish they weren’t. That blue green is my favorite color.
you pretty much just answered your own statement....@KoWoTun
sure. that doesn't change that fact that natural material fetches a far greater price then any synthetic or lab grown material.@KoWoTun
@KoWoTun you're comparing apples to oranges....something that is made naturally in the earth, coloured by random mineral deposits as apposed to grown in a lab with specific parameters...there is no conspiracy...don't appreciate natural gems? thata fine. buy all the synthetics in offer and enjoy them.