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Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance?
    #19159276 - 11/19/13 11:37 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Why do faceting machines have to be so much money, why cant it be easier to take a rough stone and turn it into a beautiful faceted beauty?

Ugh I wish there was another method other than buying a $1000+ machine.

Any ideas? Or does anyone have a faceting machine? Id be willing to pay for someone to facet and finish raw gemstones for me :datass:

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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: Demonic_Chronic]
    #19159344 - 11/19/13 12:02 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

There is a flat hand faceted. You have a angled sop stick and cut with basically diamond sand paper.


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: Demonic_Chronic]
    #19159420 - 11/19/13 12:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I don't facet, but cut, grind, polish, and knap about everything else in my lapidary. there are a lot of faceters out there and unless you have exceptional material that is hard for others to get their hands on or have a mine of your own, you will blend in with everyone else. if this is just for a hobby, then try going to a local rock shop and look for a used unit. CL is also another great place for used lapidary supplies. I just got a silver casting centrifuge but i'll probably never get into faceting. I like free form cabochons.


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #19159536 - 11/19/13 12:52 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

join a gem and mineral society club they let you use theirs for a fee


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #19159583 - 11/19/13 01:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I don't facet, but cut, grind, polish, and knap about everything else in my lapidary. there are a lot of faceters out there and unless you have exceptional material that is hard for others to get their hands on or have a mine of your own, you will blend in with everyone else. if this is just for a hobby, then try going to a local rock shop and look for a used unit. CL is also another great place for used lapidary supplies. I just got a silver casting centrifuge but i'll probably never get into faceting. I like free form cabochons.




Yeah Im just starting wire wrapping so I wanna be able to make rough, raw stones easier to wrap. What tools do you use for cutting, grinding and polishing? Any tips you can give? Its just a hobby and I was hoping to find a way to cut or grind the stones in a faceted fashion with maybe a point.

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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: Demonic_Chronic]
    #19159707 - 11/19/13 01:35 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

here's some fire obsidian that i dig and polish. I use a foredom with nova resin bond points to carve and get to pre-polish, then polished with cerium oxide on hard felt.


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: Demonic_Chronic]
    #19160028 - 11/19/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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passifloracaerulea said:
I don't facet, but cut, grind, polish, and knap about everything else in my lapidary. there are a lot of faceters out there and unless you have exceptional material that is hard for others to get their hands on or have a mine of your own, you will blend in with everyone else. if this is just for a hobby, then try going to a local rock shop and look for a used unit. CL is also another great place for used lapidary supplies. I just got a silver casting centrifuge but i'll probably never get into faceting. I like free form cabochons.




Yeah Im just starting wire wrapping so I wanna be able to make rough, raw stones easier to wrap. What tools do you use for cutting, grinding and polishing? Any tips you can give? Its just a hobby and I was hoping to find a way to cut or grind the stones in a faceted fashion with maybe a point.

DC





You might be able to get by using a dremel. I don't know what kind of material you are working with, but I can do small polishing and grinding jobs on agate with one. It's not gonna cut big slabs but you definitely round out corners and dent up rocks with a decent dremel.


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: ganjfather]
    #19160320 - 11/19/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

if you want to bubble dive fire agate then you need a dremel or foredom, either one on a flex shaft. the bits are relatively cheap.


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: passifloracaerulea]
    #19160503 - 11/19/13 04:31 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I've never used a foredom, I assume they are similar to a dremel but better?


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Re: Faceting stones... Anyone got a machine by chance? [Re: ganjfather]
    #19160510 - 11/19/13 04:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

you got it. dremel makes a flex shaft model too though. the pedal is also really nice for speed, easy start and stopping.


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