Index of Online Faceting Articles, Tips and How-to Faceters.com 'Just ask Jeff' FAQs by Jeff Graham Design Questions What is a Barion? What is a Princess cut? What L/W mean and what is it used for? What is Tangent Ratioing? What is your opinion? What is Face up Brightness and Tilt Brightness? Does an Apex Crown help with Tilt Brightness? Dopping Questions Do you recommend wax or glue for dopping? How do I get started dopping with wax? What kind of alcohol should I use? How do I clean dops? Equipment Questions What Faceting Equipment do I need to get started? What is a good Faceting Machine to start with? What do I do if I think my machine is out of alignment? Do I really need dial indicators, strain gauges, down lights, digital read outs...? Gemstone Cutting Questions & Examples Cutting Sapphires - "Simple Heart" How do I cut a stone with different colors on different axis's? Cutting Simple Portuguese... Gemstone Grading and Color Questions GIA Gemstone Grading System What are complimentary colors? What's a color wheel? Gemstone Tools What is a Dichroscope and how do I use it? What are complimentary colors? What's a color wheel? How Do I Get Started Questions How do I find a club in my area? What are good books to start with? What type of stone should I cut first? Can I start to learn to facet with man-made Quartz? Should I? Identifying Stones and Treatment Questions Is all of that Citrine and Amethyst real? Are all Emeralds treated and what is your opinion? What is the True Color of Aquamarine? How is it Heated? What does the African "Pariaba" Toumaline look like rough? Lap Questions Do I really need to score polishing laps and if so how? What is a Last Lap and how do I use it? What is a Spectra (Ultralap) Lap? How do I use them? Do I need a ceramic lap and how do I get it to work? Making Money Faceting Questions Can I make money faceting? What stones make money? Is stone size important when cutting for money? Should I do repair work on gemstones, what is your opinion? How do I start selling to jewelers? How can I buy good quality rough I can make a profit on when cut? Polishing Questions How do I polish Quartz & Beryl? How do I polish Kunzite (Spodumene)? How do I polish Tourmaline & Garnet? How do I polish Halite? How do I polish Sapphires? Pricing Stones Questions How do I price my stones? What is your opinion of Pricing Guides? How do I figure rough cost? I sold a stone to a jeweler and later found out he made a killing on it... Am I too cheap? Rough Questions How do I tell where the "c" axis on Topaz is and orientate it? What is CZ? What is the White Paper Test? Are all Sapphires Blue? What does a top color change Garnet look like? Why does rough cost almost as much as commercially cut stones sometimes? Tucson Gem Show Questions Jeff's Tips for the Tucson Gem Show... Equipment Gemshows... Tucson In Particular Jeff's Tips for buying at a Gem Show GemCad GemCad Tutorials and How-to by Robert Strickland GemCad User's Manual GemRay, GemFrame, and GemFlick Users' Guide GemCad Print Utility for Windows 95/98 GemData - Spectrum Network Faceting Information Grinding and Polishing Alignments, Norm Steele Crown in Jeopardy, Charles Moon More Tangent Ratio Fun, Charles Moon How I lost My Lappy Home, Bill Deazley Polishing, Ralph Methewson Gearloose.com Articles by Jon Rolfe How to Build Your Own Faceting Machine The Model J-2 Prototype The "Revision X". 6-4 Titanium and 303 Stainless! Build Your Own Digital Angle Readouts Charging a New Metal Lap Basic Lap Making Casting a Lap New Mexico Faceters Guild Selected Articles from the NMFG Newsletter The Prez Sez: Montana Sapphires, Nancy Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, May-June, 1996. The Prez Sez: Cutting Benitoite, Nancy Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, July-August, 1996. Diamonds, The Most Complex Gemstones, Merrill O. Murphy, NMFG Newsletter, July-August, 1996. Surface Characteristics of Some Faceted Gemstones, Many with Polishing History, Scott R. Willson, NMFG Newsletter, March/April 1996. The Prez Sez: Do you have a surplus of gemstones?, Moss Aubrey, NMFG Newsletter, November/December 96. The Historical Significance of Turquoise, Nancy L. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, November/December 96. Grit Size Paradox, Stephen Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1997. SUCCINITE/AMBER/WHEELERITE -or WHATEVER, Merrill O. Murphy, with dopping advice from Scott Wilson, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1997. Merrill O. Murphy, with dopping advice from Scott Wilson, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1997. The Prez Sez: Montana sapphires, Moss Aubrey, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1997. The Prez Sez: History of American Sapphire Mining, Moss Aubrey, NMFG Newsletter, March-April 1997. My New Concentric Faceting Machine Design,Introduction, History And Background, W.R. Deazley,NMFG Newsletter, March-April 1997. The Prez Sez: Recent Developments in Mining and Marketing Montana Sapphire, Moss Aubrey, NMFG Newsletter, March-April 1997. In the Land of Wax N' Glue, Merrill O. Murphy, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1997. More Dopping Tips,Stephen W. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1997. Update on Synthetic Diamonds, Heidi Ruffner, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1997. Program Speaker: Dr. Ralph Dawson, Crystal Grower, by Scott Wilson, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1997. The Prez Sez: Gemstone Appeal, Moss Aubrey,NMFG Newsletter, September-October 1997. Program Speaker: Jane Ward, Diamond Expert, By Nancy Attaway,NMFG Newsletter, September-October 1997. Briolette Adhesion Technique, Steve Green, Rough and Ready Gems, Inc., NMFG Newsletter, September-October 1997. Fine Cabinet Makers Don't Use Chain Saws, Stephen Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, November-December 1997. Planning for Adventures in Faceting, M. O. Murphy, NMFG Newsletter, November-December 1997. The Causes of Color in Minerals and Gemstones, Paul Hlava, NMFG Newsletter, January-February, 1998. A Short History of Light: The Spectroscope, Stephen and Nancy Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1998 Faceting Pallasite Peridot, Nancy Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1998 Yogo Sapphires, By Jane R. Ward (and Nancy L. Attaway), NMFG Newsletter, January-February 1998 Program Speaker: Paul Hlava - The Mechanisms of Color Phenomenon, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1998. Program Speaker: Arthur Skuratowicz on the problems encountered during gemstone identification,, by Nancy Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, July-August 1998. Program Speaker: Paul Hlava - Crystallography and Crystal Shapes, NMFG Newsletter, September/October 1998. Program Speaker: Douglas Irving, a professional geologic engineer, NMFG Newsletter, November-December 1998. Program Speaker: New Mexico Orogrande Turquoise, Virgil Lueth, NMFG Newsletter, January-February, 1999. The Mystery of Gemstone Polish Part 1, Stephen Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, January-February, 1999. Mineralogical Notes on the "New Tourmalines from Nigeria", Paul Hlava , NMFG Newsletter, January-February, 1999. Optical Axis Tips, Charles W. Covill, NMFG Newsletter, January-February, 1999. Program Speaker: Mines, Men, and Minerals - An Update on Mineral Collecting in The Hansonburg District, Michael R. Sanders and Thomas M. Massis, NMFG Newsletter, March-April 1999. Preston Equation, Stephen Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, March-April 1999. Usage of Snell’s Law, by Will Moats, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1999. Program Speaker: Bruce Bunker: enviromentally-caused fracture and crack growth in glass. by Stephen Attaway and Susan Wilson, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 1999. Program Speaker: Dr. Jill Glass on "Brittle Material Fracture and Fractography," NMFG Newsletter, July/August 1999. Selling Jewelry on Ebay, By Will Moats, NMFG Newsletter, September-October 1999. Program Speaker: Scott Sucher, Replica Diamonds, by Nancy L. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, September-October 1999. Program Speaker: Robert Eveleth, Overview of early mining history in New Mexico, by Nancy L. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, November-December, 1999. Program Speaker: Mark Guerin, Master jeweler and Watchmaker, by Nancy L. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, March-April 2000. Program Speaker: Scott Sucher on the marvelous world of diamonds, Text by Nancy L. Attaway, NMFG Newsletter, May-June 2000. Let's Talk Gemstones by Edna B. Anthony Aquamarine Axinite Benitoite Beryl, Part 1 Red Beryl Beryl, Part 2 Green, Yellow-Green, and Brownish-Yellow-Green Beryl, Part 3 Goshenite Beryl, Part 4 Morganite Cordierite Dioptase Emerald, Part 1 Emerald, Part 2 Kyanite Opal, Part 1 Opal, Part 2 Silicates Sillimanite Uncommon Sorosilicates More Sorosilicates Staurolite Topaz Zircon Zoisite/Tanzanite United States Faceters Guild Articles from the USFG Faceting FAQs Alignment: Faceting Machine Alignment by Paul Head Books: Books about Faceting Cheating: Get Rid of Cheater! by Glenn Klein Competition Cutting: Competition Cutting by Art Kavan Cutting and Polishing Against the Stop by Glenn Klein How to Go from Novice to World Class Facetor by Glenn Klein Judging Competition with Microscopes by Glenn Klein Cutting and Polishing CZ: Faceting CZ by Carl Unruh Dopping: Dopping Proceedure by Glenn Klein Dopping with 5-Minute Epoxy by Jonathan Rolfe Dopping with Adhesives by Charles Covill Dopping with Black Wax is not a Black Art by Bob Keller Dopping with Superglue by Rob Meredith, Blaise Harper and Dianne Gemstone Design: Choosing the Best Angles for Your SRB by Bob Keller Design Principles by Fred Van Sant Getting Rid of Those Bow Tie Blues by Bob Keller Idiots Guide to Gemstone Geometry by Fred Van Sant Suggested Procedure For Executing ISO Brightness Contour Maps by Jack E. Gross To Compute or Not to Compute by Fred Van Sant Gemstone Properties: Properties of Commonly Faceted Minerals and Materials Guilds: Faceting Guilds, Clubs and Schools IFC History: History of the International Challenge Cup Competition by Glenn Klein Indicators: Art Kavan's Facetron Installation by Art Kavan The History of the Beale/Woolley Depth of Cut Indicator by Marcus Beale and Dave Woolley Laps: About Pitch Laps by Fred Van Sant Charging Cutting Laps and Scoring Polish Laps by Glenn Klein Audio: Tips On Using A Ceramic Lap by Charlie Hettich (requires RealPlayer) Using Copper Laps to Cut with Diamond by Sumner Olsen Using the Cermaic Lap by Art Kavan Orientation: A Brilliant Experiment by C.W.F.G. Manufacturers Faceting Machine Manufacturers Polishing: A Faceting Breakthrough for Corundum, CZ and Spinel on Ceramic by Tom Gray Polishing on Water by Glenn Klein Thoughts on Polishing with Diamond by Fred Van Sant Preforming: Be a Performer, Not a Preformer by Glenn Klein Best Index Numbers for Ovals by Fred Van Sant C.A.M. Preform: The Cone by Fred Van Sant Preforming: What's The Best Way ? by Fred Van Sant Refractive Index: Refractive Index and Critical Angle by Bob Keller Scratches et al: Scratches from the Master Lap by Dave Wooley Sequencing: A Method for Sequencing the Crown by Glenn Klein Sequencing Facets by Fred Van Sant Sequencing the Crown by Fred Van Sant Tangent Ratio: Gemstone Design Conversion Using the Tangent Ratio Method by Bob Keller Technique: Cutting by Ear by Bob Keller Terminology: Faceting Dictionary by Fred Van Sant Various Sources on the WWW Selected Articles and Gemstone Pages by a Potporri of Authors Making a Gemstone, Glen W. Probst Chris and Anne's Concave Faceting Page Sumner Olsen's Faceted Stones and Eggs Bob's Rock Shop Articles from Perfect Transfer Faceters Symposium 2000, Bob Keller Faceting Fascinates, Ruth Chin Faceting as a Hobby, Jack Christianson Refractive Index and Critical Angle, Bob Keller Getting Rid of Those Bow Tie Blues, Bob Keller Dopping with Black Wax is Not a Black Art, Bob Keller Gemstone Design Conversion Using the Tangent Ratio Method, Bob Keller Faceting by Hand, Bob Jones A Visual Stop for the Graves Faceting Machines, Ken Wetz Properties of Commonly Faceted Minerals and Materials, Bob Keller Faceting Guilds and Clubs List, Bob Keller
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