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Gateway to Gemstone Designs on the Internet
- A Searchable Interface to Downloadable Faceting Diagrams and Gemstone Designs on the WWW
- Faceting Fascinates
- With an Experienced Guide, You, Too, Can Bring Gemstones to Life!
- Faceting as a Hobby
- A MWF Award Winning Article by Jack Christianson
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- Faceting CZ
- How to Facet and Polish Cubic Zircona by Carl Unruh
- Refractive Index and Critical Angle
- A Faceter's Primer on Refractive Index, Critical Angle, Dispersion and Birefringence
- A Graphical Presentation of Brightness in the Standard Round Brilliant
- Scientific Graphing Software Meets GemRay!
- Getting Rid of Those Bow Tie Blues
- Design Techniques for Eliminating Dark Areas in Gemstones
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- A Technique for Dopping with Black Wax
- Dopping Gemstones with Black Wax Is Not a Black Art
- On Hunting Faceting Rough in the Backwater at Tucson
- Faceting Rough is Where You Find It
- Gemstone Design Conversion Using the Tangent Ratio Method
- A Primer on Tangent Ratio Conversion for Faceters
- Online Tangent Ratio Converter
- An Online Calculator for Transposing Design Angles
- Online Gem Weight Calculator
- An Online Calculator for Determining Gem Weight with Various Materials
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- Faceting by Hand
- Jack Lahr's Lap-Lap Relies on Primitive Power
- Faceters Symposium 2000
- A Photo Report and Account of the Faceters Hobnob in Riverside California
- Presenting Many Gemstone Designs by the Symposium Speakers!
- GemCad - Computer Aided Gemstone Design
- The Official GemCad Home Page - Gemstone Design Software
- Cutting by Ear
- A Technique for Faceting Without the Use of Visual Depth of Cut Indicators
- Tips and Tweeks for Faceting Machines
- A Visual Stop for the Graves Faceting Machines
- The Beale/Woolley Depth of Cut Indicator
- Art Kavan's Beale/Woolley Indicator Installation on a Facetron
- Scratches from the Master Lap
- The Beale/Woolley Depth of Cut Indicator
- Properties of Commonly Faceted Minerals and Materials
- A Table Providing Refractive Index, Critical Angle, Birefringence, Dispersion, Hardness, Specific Gravity, Crystal System and Class, Formula and Cleavage Information
- Index of Online Faceting Articles
- Check Out This Index of Faceting Articles, Tips and How-to on the WWW!
- Faceting Guilds, Clubs and Schools List
- Links and Contact Information for Guilds, Clubs and Schools Offering Faceting Classes and Programs
The Columbia-Willamette Faceter's Guild publishes FACETS, a monthly newsletter featuring information of interest to faceters. Their newsletter boasts "A New Faceting Design Each Month". A couple of recent issues featured cutting instructions for a number of designs as well as faceting how-to articles, faceting and gemstone related news, and announcements of upcoming shows, symposiums and events. They'll be glad to send you a free sample copy.
Write to: Columbia-Willamette Faceter's Guild, PO Box 2136, Portland, Oregon USA 97208-2136, or you can request a copy by email from their editor, Grover Sparkman, at grover@teleport.com.
- Equipment Manufacturers
- Links and Contact Information for Manufacturers of Faceting Machines and Equipment
- Door Knobs
- 1180 Carat Citrine
- 880 Carat Kunzite
- 297 Carat Kunzite
- 880 Carat Kunzite
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