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Stones I have cut
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 414453" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Cheers mate :Y: </p><p></p><p>Hmm, that's a good question. I never timed it.</p><p></p><p>A big stone can be a substantial number of hours. Be easy for it to take 8-10 hours depending on what stone and how much you obsess over pinpoint accuracy, going back and re-touching things that no one can actually see without magnification but as the cutter you know are there and it's uncomfortable to leave them. The way I cut sapphire also requires an extra step compared to most other stones so that takes more time as well.</p><p></p><p>But I don;t think this stone took as long as I was expecting because there were no issues with polishing - it polished extremely rapidly with cerium, far quicker than I would have expected large facets to polish. Probably about 7 hours maybe?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 414453, member: 2976"] Cheers mate :Y: Hmm, that's a good question. I never timed it. A big stone can be a substantial number of hours. Be easy for it to take 8-10 hours depending on what stone and how much you obsess over pinpoint accuracy, going back and re-touching things that no one can actually see without magnification but as the cutter you know are there and it's uncomfortable to leave them. The way I cut sapphire also requires an extra step compared to most other stones so that takes more time as well. But I don;t think this stone took as long as I was expecting because there were no issues with polishing - it polished extremely rapidly with cerium, far quicker than I would have expected large facets to polish. Probably about 7 hours maybe? [/QUOTE]
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