The World's Most Inexpensive Faceting Machine

Don't laugh! Template Faceters - which you can easily make for under $5 - have been in use by professional faceters for centuries. They take a bit of learning as this video shows, but in a world of thousand-dollar machines, a Template Faceter offers a cheap gateway into serious faceting.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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