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Where did you get the alchemy symbols on your handpiece table? It is epic. The stone is also absolutely stunning. Cheers!

Cheer wine is way better than Dr Pepper lol 😂

I like it because its not a fake product, its real emerald improved by the hand of men. if you know something about jewerly you know that emeralds come from earth very cracked, clean uncracked emeralds are extremely expensive, even the ones that are quite clean have prohibitive value

What’s the percentage of stones that don’t survive this process?

Perfect! I love it.

I basically use 3 step cutting for all my stones. Preform on 250 grit, pre polish on 1200 grit and polish with 50k diamond.

So exciting and absolutely powerful. Working at your magnificent bench will bring in 100 years of creativity. So fitting for "The Gemcutters Craft". You have created a family heirloom. Magnificent job Justin.

I liked the before color better also.

tbh I kinda like the darker color

Looks great. I have refinished a TON of antiques. My parent bought out two Quebec Antique Dealers in the 1970's with intent of opening their own business selling antiques. Almost all the furniture was Pine but there was a bit of mixed hardwood, especially with chairs. Our entire home was furnished with antiques right down to our beds and dressers. That still left a garage attic and a large building right full of unfinished antiques. I learned a few formulas for stripping wood and for finishes and techniques. It was all a great experience and one definitely has a sense of satisfaction after refinishing an old antique and giving it new life. Nicely done Justin.

It has many original parts, it could be returned to original working condition with the axle and disc that I have not seen. I don't think it's a problem to make the missing parts. I'm a little sorry that it's just an ordinary table for a jambpeg machine...Black paint never went well with wood, at least in my opinion it only works with iron... If temporarily it is OK, but please try to make it as it used to be, I would like it totally restored and not a repurposed table.👍

looks good enough to eat.

I like the black legs :)

Table looks awesome. I recently built my own table and necessary tools for faceting gem material. I live in Connecticut and we have a LOT of abandoned mines and quarries pre -WW2 that still have a lot of gem material in the piles such as Aqua, Green Beryl, Garnet and many others .... sothe natural progression was to learn how to find it the n cut it, then set it into a jewelry piece. The best part is I have accomplished all of those without buying anything, I made it all from scrap material and stuff I had collected as an aspiring alchemist which by doing so allowed me to learn the process...albeit the harder route but after watching every episode of the world of faceting machines 20 times each, I said Game ON...I was able to build a hand piece, a mast, a jambpeg, two lap machines, a table with lap built in, a jewelers bench and a host of other tools that I needed. So now I go look, I find, I cut and I set...It has been very fun, hard but well rewarding and I THANK YOU for a good part of that inspiration. Be well, Godspeed brother.

in addition to lead for the white pigment there could be arsenic for the green, glad you used ppe.

Well done!

Great work on that restauration! What did you use to plug the left hole?

Nice work! Dressing the interior with mosaic tiles in mahogany colour would relieve you from moisture , grime , diamond slurry and doping wax, permanently.

For those curious, the software he's using to show the cut gem is called GemRay. It's companion faceting CAD program is called GemCAD. They're both free, as the creator retired and put an open software key on the site that anyone can use. I'm not sure if he used GemCAD to create the models, but the program itself is pretty good. Especially if you're just getting curious about creating your own facet pattern. Enjoy!

Ok...great video sir!

Ole chap is of Eastern European descent

Ore carts

i’m thinking about ordering a sterling st-08. how long does it take to get it after placing the order? my teacher said he waited like 6 months for his v5 but i’m getting so impatient to start cutting on my own that im prepared to buy 2nd hand. if i can get a brand new machine from sterling, fairly quickly tho; that would be awesome

Credit where credit is due, he's good at SRBs, but I wonder how he would go on a rectangular cushion. Every cut I do is done to maximise yield so virtually never do an SRB. All take a lot more time, but then custom cuts make more money for unique pieces of jewellery.

Longer video coming?

Love it!

Thanks justin for exposing the chronicles of Sri Lankan gem faceting, Im a big fan of yours❤❤

I have a $200 budget to get a tabletop grinder for stones and opals but I don't know which one to buy. There are lots of options on Amazon within budget but I'm nervous that I'll get the wrong one. Any suggestions?? Thank you!

That oil used does not have the same refractive index or you need pressure after vacuum. That's only a marginal improvement.

Wan you add a resist and grow shapes?

are there some good free rendering programs

We still have my Grandfather’s loupe. His was metal. Also have his jewelers scale.

Check for rare stamps…

Are those emerald are fake ones or just made like a lab created emerald gemstones?

Hi, Justin : I love it. The conical shape is meant to serve the purpose of being able to be held hands free between the eyebrow bone and the cheek-bone keeping the perfect distance from the magnifying lence and the eye.

Hi can i meet u so i can have a stone cut?please and thank u😅

It is possible that the glass bits were practice for apprentices to facet.

The difference is a 3.000 dollar in equipment and high revenue is maintenance I suppose

I don't think it matters. So many seem to be machinists who moved to faceting. Faceting to me is qualitative, not quantitative. What difference is there between 90 degrees and 89 degrees that anyone would really notice. Stop trying to calibrate your machines to .001 tolerance and just make nice looking gems!!!

As a longtime academic I have never flipped faster from "it's my book" (uuugh) to "there are no diagrams in the other one, mine has diagrams" (OOOOOH!) xD

That is absolutely AMAZING!!!!!

I actually don't see any noticeable difference. The graphs are so close it's fair to say they are the same IMO.

Hey! I'm curious about what you think about cutting glass to start with? I have been doing some lampworking and have been considering investing in equipment to facet my glassworks. Do you have any experience cutting Soda-lime or Boro glasses?

I’m working on the solutions. My SOM should be delivered this week. I’ll mainly be addressing the dop indexing and divisions first.

Losing your mind is a stroke of genius😊

I can see the difference..but I think that 99,99% can't tell what's "wrong or right" When you look at what stones most of the gold/silversmiths buy for their creations 😵‍💫...A perfect cut stone will be a lot better even if the angles can be a bit off the perfect angles.

Great Video!

Jura? I enjoy a scotch whiskey by the same name.

So, in other words these "gemstones" were part of a costume jewelry trade, that used colored glass instead of real gemstones, which would have put their cost into a level that only more affluent people could afford. Cool, I have to say that the Bag of Sapphires you first opened made my heart up in my throat, because the color was fairly accurate, well, on some of them anyways. The machine is of much more interest for mee, so cool that you were able to buy it, now you need to return the entire setup back to working order! Back then, machines were meant and built to last generations, so they were built to last, to as high a level as they could achieve. Much like my Grand Mother's Singer Sewing machine that my Grand Father bought for her back before the great depression, and that machine was NOT new, it was second hand. so it was actually older than the 1920s, but for the life of me I cannot remember the actual date on the manufacturing stamp, which I looked at I know not how oft.