⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos

Seems you mastered the iphone mate, fantastic stones. mmmm mmm

Heatho said:

Seems you mastered the iphone mate, fantastic stones. mmmm mmm

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AND the Ultratec!

So I had the cushion cut topaz I posted on page 27 of this thread set in a custom design. 5 grams of 9 carat white with 2 little amethysts. A gift for my girl. Really need to invest in a gem cloth and work on my photography skills. Anyway, David Taylor in Carins made the setting. He is brilliant!!

Jeez! 8)

That's awesome mate!

A badly captured image (battery died and that's the best I got) of a 5.1 ct Smith Bar test cut in Rose de France. Few facets to cut for a pixelated effect. I intend to retry another test it as it still needs work. Although not easy to see with an aided eye.

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Bought these little beauties at the Canberra Lapidary Clubs annual rock swap on Sunday and cut them first thing Monday morning

Once again the camera and my lack of photography skills don't do the stones justice.

From this :/





To this





Cheers

Col

Nice handywork Col, they look sensational.

Flashy!

Thanks dudes, I'm very happy how they turned out

Looking forward to seeing yours finished Soda

Beautiful stuff guys, keep it coming.

Check this bad boy out

[video=480,360]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12yqmrN8w8[/video]

wow I love opal no other stone can catch your eye like a good opal

Playing with new macro setup , lots to learn . Blue topaz, not little ones

Very fine work on those 5 Ks, hold up well under close scrutiny ,... absolutely 5 beautiful stones wrestled from the rough under your well practiced hands. Hats off mate, to a job well done ! 8)

Nice photo Barney, they look spectacular.

Nice shot. Nice rocks. Appreciate the time spent on that. It's hard. I use a large old yogurt tub to diffuse - something the kids can't destroy.

Lab created corundum. 5.X ct. Same stone different lighting. Polish needs improving.

Have just finished a couple more stones. Nothing as nice as all the others on here, but i think i am getting there.
Two of the stones are quartz/glass one opal and one garnet. Was really happy with how the garnet came up despite a big inclusion in it. It was a bright purple color before it was cut, but now looks almost blood red from a few angles with light above. The photo makes it look a bit dirty but i think that is from me cleaning off finger marks with a tissue

Methinks your garnet might change colors depending on lighting... did you check it outside after cutting?