⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos

[WalnLiz]

Great that you're getting Barney to cut the larger ones mate, as by the sounds of the colours they will be "Investment Stones"and warrant better cutting than Lamberts. Looking forward to pics of the cut stones.

 

[Highway1]

Heatho, those stones look good, I agree on your comments of the dark Royal Blue. I am not very knowledgable on stones, but the dark blue just looks a really nice stone. Cheers Max

 

[Heatho]

Totally agree, great to have a good mate cut stones which I'll treasure forever also, makes them even more valuable. Will post pics for sure, need to learn to take better shots though.

 

[Oldfella]

Beautiful stones there Heatho, especially the darker ones.

 

[Kingsolomon]

Here's a pretty photo of some of my gems , my other ( better half) learning how to get good images.. So better must come .

Got a new collection to show soon

 

[WalnLiz]

Look spectacular mate. Great to have a master cutter amongst us. Look forward to more pics.

 

[Oldfella]

You do great work Kingsolomon.

 

[Heatho]

She nailed that pic mate, looks spot on.

 

[Reeks]

Well done Heatho and Kingsolomon. Look great.
I joined the local lapidary club and am cutting some television glass in a brilliant cut.

Keen to walbank the shlt out of a few stones this summer!
Reeko

 

[WalnLiz]

Hey Reeks...that television glass comes out as sparkly as diamond. Love to see a pic when the cut is complete.

 

[Varts]

Awesome ,

 

[Heatho]

Well done Heatho and Kingsolomon. Look great.
I joined the local lapidary club and am cutting some television glass in a brilliant cut.

Keen to walbank the shlt out of a few stones this summer!
Reeko

Good on you mate, keen to see the finished piece, I'll let you know when we are heading to Inverell if you're keen to come. In about a month, not sure on dates yet.

Thinking about Hill End for a swing sometime this coming week too.

 

[Reeks]

The old fellas were calling it sanyo-topaz!
I'll take some progress pics.
Reeko

 

[Heatho]

Sanyo Topaz, classic. Hmmm thinking about it, there is probably less Sanyo Topaz on the planet than real Topaz.

 

[joao garimpeiro]

Nice stones!
I love it!

 

[Lefty]

Mate, don't mind if he sees my post, it was over 10 years ago and after not so good later service from him, didn't utilise his services again.

I see ... Not saying your comments are unjustified ... But seems a lot of cutters get a bad wrap , maybe that's why not so many are about anymore ? Everyone on the fields always say " there looking for a cutter" . That's if they can part with it before they die. Maybe that's why there isn't so many cutters , the work goes back into the ground once its found ..albeit years later.. But hey .. Seems that way.

It's funny isn't it? So many blokes seem to have stashes of beautiful stones that they take to the grave with them. The bloke who lived on the claim next door to ours when I was knee-high had a bunch of big coffee jars full of beautiful sapphires. Like most people on the field, he did sell/swap a few but it seems he just held on to most of them. They eventually went into a bank vault here in Gladstone, no idea what happened to them after that. The bloke is apparently still alive though on his last legs now.

This is a very poor photo of a stone I was shown out there a while back......

It is an outstanding stone - 107 carats, pale green one direction, orange veiwed from another and turning bright pink in artificial light. There are virtually no cracks or rubbish in it, the thing that looks like a crack running through it is actually the branch of a tree in the background. He offered to me if I had a spare $150 000 - needless to say I didn't have quite that much in my wallet It is an almost perfect natural trillion shape and a couple of blokes I have spoken to out there reckon it would be possible to cut a single stone from it that would come in at 70-80 carats finished. I hope the bloke eventually does something with it, it would be a crying shame to see it just shoved in a bottle and gather dust for the next hundred years.

 

[Kingsolomon]

Are they using sapphire in the glass for screens now ? ... I heard something like that .. Maybe that's why it looks good . I'm pretty sure there using it in phone screens now. " Sanyo topaz" too funny , guess ill kick in a screen next council cleanup
Thanks for complements on stones , I'll get faster and be able to cut for people soon .. Here's some more topaz I cut yesterday .. Like this new polishing lap .. Looks wet...

 

[Kingsolomon]

Mate, don't mind if he sees my post, it was over 10 years ago and after not so good later service from him, didn't utilise his services again.

I see ... Not saying your comments are unjustified ... But seems a lot of cutters get a bad wrap , maybe that's why not so many are about anymore ? Everyone on the fields always say " there looking for a cutter" . That's if they can part with it before they die. Maybe that's why there isn't so many cutters , the work goes back into the ground once its found ..albeit years later.. But hey .. Seems that way.

It's funny isn't it? So many blokes seem to have stashes of beautiful stones that they take to the grave with them. The bloke who lived on the claim next door to ours when I was knee-high had a bunch of big coffee jars full of beautiful sapphires. Like most people on the field, he did sell/swap a few but it seems he just held on to most of them. They eventually went into a bank vault here in Gladstone, no idea what happened to them after that. The bloke is apparently still alive though on his last legs now.

This is a very poor photo of a stone I was shown out there a while back......

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3714/10375279165_bcdd234f1a_z.jpg

It is an outstanding stone - 107 carats, pale green one direction, orange veiwed from another and turning bright pink in artificial light. There are virtually no cracks or rubbish in it, the thing that looks like a crack running through it is actually the branch of a tree in the background. He offered to me if I had a spare $150 000 - needless to say I didn't have quite that much in my wallet It is an almost perfect natural trillion shape and a couple of blokes I have spoken to out there reckon it would be possible to cut a single stone from it that would come in at 70-80 carats finished. I hope the bloke eventually does something with it, it would be a crying shame to see it just shoved in a bottle and gather dust for the next hundred years.

To get that stone to cut! I only wish ... Colour shifter that size would have to be worth it, but hey it might show up again in a few generations !...

 

[Kingsolomon]

Here is a better photo of the topaz I cut this week , with a new one from yesterday cutting a garnet today , will post tomorow

 

[Kingsolomon]

Dont like fondue anymore? Use one as a stone heater garnet warming for cutting...

five carat garnet warming in there , so hard to tell which type they are !