Setting up the garage

[Moth]

We (my wife) designed our home on an 18 x 36m block to allow 4 metres to one side to accommodate our caravan - she didn't do a bad job as she managed to include a purpose built 3m x 1.5m faceting room for me in the garage. Set up with 2 Ikea draw sets and a second hand bench top cut to size, a couple of shelves and good to go

 

[LONEWOLF]

That's a really neat Faceting Room there Moth. Lots of Natural Light. :Y: .. You are Very Lucky to have a Very Considerate Wife there, who has taken 'Your Needs' into Consideration.. O .
What 'Brand' of Machine do you have there ? Haven't seen that one before... Not that I have seen Many, but Curious that's all...

LW...

 

[shivan]

Yes a very nice setup Moth, nice and bright.
That's something else i lack in my garage, natural light and heating. I have been cutting till the wee hours of the morning lately and geez it gets cold in there.

 

[Moth]

Its a Halls 2000 - the area is at the back of our attached garage so isn't included in the house heating/cooling - I have a small fan and evaporative cooler and the usual small electric heater. Unfortunately I have to walk to the other side of the garage to the beer fridge - have room under the bench for a bar fridge but I need the exercise

 

[Moth]

Shivan

Love the Cyclops design - looks very well done - can you tell me where you got it?

 

[shivan]

G'day Moth, the last few designs i have cut have all been from :
https://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Faceting_Designs

http://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/images/0/0c/Cyclops_(diagram).jpg

 

[Moth]

Thanks Shivan

Appreciate the link. On the road at the moment and won't be back to my machine until September but that link will be included in my favourites

 

[Lefty]

G'day Moth, the last few designs i have cut have all been from :
https://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Faceting_Designs

http://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/images/0/0c/Cyclops_(diagram).jpg

That's a fantastic site!

I've cut five designs from the first author on the page (Voltolini) - Bumblebee, Tribal, Nymphea and Lucciola. All of them worked great! Only one I didn't really be get to work well was Squartugese 2. Might have worked better with a larger stone but on a small stone the multitude of small facets at angles really close together causes more of a glow than brilliance.