⭐ Show Us Your Cut Stones - Before And After Photos

[joao garimpeiro]

Nice, nice, nice topazio
nice work mate

 

[jimnyjerry]

Beautifully cut topaz Kingsolomon. And a great photo, really shows them off.
I think I would be shot if I used our fondue stand like that. But it is a great idea

 

[Kingsolomon]

Garnet 4.5 before...

Cut this with extra eight facets instead of table .. Ended 1.7 carat...

so sorta looks like a rose cut ..

 

[Heatho]

Nice one Barney, looks great.

 

[Lefty]

Nice topaz and garnet there Barney

What sort of cut is the bottom middle topaz? Is that your own design?

 

[rough2cut]

Ok enough with the rounds,time for you my young apprentice to embrace the oval antique square and emerald cut.

Nice cutting by the way. Sure you didn't pay someone looks like a pro cut it.

Photo of a tourmaline pavilion in an antique square

 

[Kingsolomon]

Nice topaz and garnet there Barney

What sort of cut is the bottom middle topaz? Is that your own design?

That's a bar cut lefty .. not to many facets as long as it stays on the dop

 

[Kingsolomon]

Nice tourmaline ! Hey! I've done some step cuts six and eights still sorta round though. Got a square in dop now ... Was about to cut this...but I guess I'll have to do that tomorow

I have to cut it round... Steve said" round or die !" And was written on the package.. You reckon SRB or put a star at culet to highlight white pipe?...

 

[rough2cut]

If its not too dark double brill 16 mains and 16 girdles with a standsrd top

 

[Kingsolomon]

Ok ....the pipe looks like a white yolk. So if I keep the culet in that I'm hoping it will brighten the otherwise fairly dark, outer edge . It's a perfect pear though! But after taking off that edge I reckon I'll have almost 6 carat to work with . As for now .... Squaring up a piece of topaz...

 

[Lefty]

Nice topaz and garnet there Barney

What sort of cut is the bottom middle topaz? Is that your own design?

That's a bar cut lefty .. not to many facets as long as it stays on the dop

Ah ok - looks like it would be typically set in a deep bezel setting?

 

[Sodabowski]

Nice tourmaline ! Hey! I've done some step cuts six and eights still sorta round though. Got a square in dop now ... Was about to cut this...but I guess I'll have to do that tomorowhttps://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/578/1410856959_image.jpg
I have to cut it round... Steve said" round or die !" And was written on the package.. You reckon SRB or put a star at culet to highlight white pipe?...

Freaking promising piece of rough!

 

[fossickeract]

One of my finds special to me, a 22c pinkish zircon found in the second last sieve of two weeks digging on the Mud Tank field in the NT.

Cut in a Barion Rectangle for colour.Indoor lighting.

Outdoor lighting.

And yes it has faded a little since cutting the purple lighter but not the orange shade.

 

[Lefty]

Nice stone there fossickeract Heard all about fading zircons, never actually seen in happen with any of the ones I've gotten from the Anakie field.

 

[rough2cut]

I love a good Barion cut,well done love the colour. It will look good whatever shade it ends up.

 

[Heatho]

That Zircon is a cracker, awesome.

 

[Kingsolomon]

Ok enough with the rounds,time for you my young apprentice to embrace the oval antique square and emerald cut.

Nice cutting by the way. Sure you didn't pay someone looks like a pro cut it.

Photo of a tourmaline pavilion in an antique squarehttps://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3816/1410850884_pic_1001.jpg

Here's a square den ! ...

crappy photos I know!

 

[Heatho]

Looks awesome Barney.

 

[rough2cut]

Looks great, I know what you were talking about now. Well done.

 

[fossickeract]

A week sieving dirt at Chudley Park FNQ produced these peridot cutters although the 60c piece in the centre proved too flawed. Its hard, the sieved gravel is all coated with brown iron oxide and can only be distinguished by its angular shape and after tumbling half of that is black spinel anyway.

It is worth the effort finding the odd gem this one is 5c.