The World's Most Inexpensive Faceting Machine

[Nugget49er]

Thanks for the schooling. I'm glad that I found your video!! Any update on the post you made a couple years ago?

Thanks again.

[jagfann]

Wow Jerry that sounds great!!! I've got a lot to learn before I start faceting but I'm really happy to have seen this and to know when I'm ready where I can go.

Have a great Thanksgiving

Tammy

jagfan

[SterlingShowCase]

your website is down ?

[KyleGspinnin4u]

I'm fairly new at faceting, I've been using a dremmel to cut my stones and until I saw some video's on youtube I could not figure out how to avoid having a milky film over my stones post cutting. I now realize that water prevents this film from forming, and although I have some basic shapes formed I am still a decent way from finishing any of them. This video reminded me of some of the trig. I forgot from highschool, and seeing this process has made me revamp my entire process. Thank you is all.

[VandMco]

Great tutorial. 

[dragen55]

i have 2ct unheated and uncut diamond fresh from the ground,,, where can i find someone to make them into priincsess cut

[ayshortier]

I like this video a lot. I would like to make the templates and start grinding some quartz or stuff to learn with. Are those plastic and with what type of epoxy do you attach the gem to the rod with? 

[Kurzfilmintermezzo]

Very good Video! Thanks

[jenmurphable]

Thank you!

[avocadopunk]

I have sooooo Much Carnelian!! Thank you!! You Rock! (pun wasn't intended but it fits) LOL.

[darthjeff3]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!

[kennnmoran]

Looks okay for a cheap machine, try putting pegs or something on the top of the box so the blocks go back in the same position all the time, and a groove in the blocks so the pivot point go back into the same position all the time.

[berylbill]

Great videos. Love the homemade faceting tool. Please keep the vids coming.

[hrxy1]

very nice man thanks for sharing your insight into making easy, quick, simple and affordable specialist tools great work well done. Henry Richmond

[jeriwykoff]

Thankis. You might want to keep an eye on YouTube faceting because I'm in the final

R&D and patenting of a faceting breakthrough that allows anyone to facet very inexpensively.

[kmdental36]

Great job 5stars

[GlassYoshino]

Neat! I would love to learn this but I thought it would be too expensive to get a machine. I'm in college so I need to be thrifty. This could do the trick! Thanks!

[jeriwykoff]

Thanx for your nice comment. It takes only a few minutes to make one with a band saw. The biggest challenge is getting the template height elevated enough to cut facets at the proper angle.

[revoltnow100]

This is great!!! I'd like to try it for my gem carving :)

[mycatwilatackyou]

hey that is pretty cool, and cheap. great setup. I own a polymetric facet machine, and have owned an MDR as well as a Lee.

[jeriwykoff]

Thanks. Sounds like you have the faceting equation worked out fairly well. The template, as you can imagine, is rather helpful for standard preforming, but it can - with my modifications - be pressed into accurate faceting use. . . with PLENTY of patience.

[mystudiospace]

Really enjoyed that. Thank You!

[jeriwykoff]

You're welcome. Thanks for spending some time with us.

[SwellowStormRunner]

You are an idol XD!!! I so want to learn how to do this, I know I'm still a bit young but all the same it looks so interesting! I'm such a rock hound! lol. Do I just order the jamb peg from the site and it is sent to me? I can't wait to get started if that's the case! Oh, and sir, if at all possible, could you make a video of showing a rough stone being cut or faceted? I've been looking all over and can't seem to fine a vid that has one! And I just love your work!

[kingb212212]

i need to polish the girdle on my diamond any help or info? let me know pls

[jeriwykoff]

As a retired diamond cutter, I heartily suggest you forget about polising the girdle on your diamond. It's expensive,requires a diamond polisher - and will do very little to improve the appearance or optical performance on your diamond. That's why girdles on a diamond are so routinely left unpolished. It will also, no doubt, result is a decrease in diamond weight.

[jeriwykoff]

I didn't recommend polishing the diamond's girdle. I seldom even polish colored stone girdles. As for a "diamond polisher" I'm not certain what you're referring to. All the diamond girdles I polished were done with a 90-degree orietntation against the skeif. On large diamonds, a polished girdle is standard, though. Thanks for your comments.