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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
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⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos
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<blockquote data-quote="Dihusky" data-source="post: 536488" data-attributes="member: 10304"><p>Not sure as I cut it over around 3 weeks, heaps of interruptions and I can normally only get a couple of undisturbed hours when I get home from work. All up probably around 20hrs I would estimate. Had to re-cut the crown a couple of times as one facet had to be cut on 50k, would fall apart if I used 8k so this took a while <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> </p><p></p><p>Then I had alignment problems with girdle breaks to second tier of crown facets which surround the eye, so ended up floating the second tier to make the eye accurate and cut the breaks to line up. Then everything worked well <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>It was an interesting design to execute.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dihusky, post: 536488, member: 10304"] Not sure as I cut it over around 3 weeks, heaps of interruptions and I can normally only get a couple of undisturbed hours when I get home from work. All up probably around 20hrs I would estimate. Had to re-cut the crown a couple of times as one facet had to be cut on 50k, would fall apart if I used 8k so this took a while :( Then I had alignment problems with girdle breaks to second tier of crown facets which surround the eye, so ended up floating the second tier to make the eye accurate and cut the breaks to line up. Then everything worked well :) It was an interesting design to execute. [/QUOTE]
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⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos
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