Stones I have cut

[Lefty]

Silky *haze*

 

[Lefty]

Nice little 1.4 carat Rubyvale blue. Original rough was 13 carats but there was a lot of smashed up material in it and I had to whittle it down much smaller, resulting in this perfectly clean stone. Bloke took his son up there for a dig (they have recently put down a shaft) and the young fella found it sticking out of the wall. It's going into an engagement ring for his girlfriend - always especially special when you found it yourself

 

[Mr Magoo]

Nice blue there Lefty. :Y: erfect:
None of that inkiness.

 

[Wishfull]

That is stunning Lefty. Far out ! :Y:

 

[Lefty]

Cheers guys, yes it's a pretty little stone. I thought I was going to have to cut it well off-table to get the owner anything back at all because of the shape - but in the end it came in almost dead on-table as you can see by the colour face-up.

 

[Lefty]

I know - yet another pyralspite-type garnet, and also in the same design as the last stone . But I absolutely love these stones, there is just something about the better-quality almandine and pyrope garnets (and rhodolite) that really does it for me. This one is about 1.1 carats and was cut for a member of this forum (I don;t think he has posted for a very long time. I don't know where he got this one from.

 

[Lefty]

 

[Mr Magoo]

You been practicing with your new camera Lefty?

Garnet rocks! :lol:

 

[Lefty]

No mate, I got chipped by the missus for not having used the thing yet (she bought me an fairly expensive one for taking pics of stones). I had a go yesterday but the SD card from the old one isn't compatible so I'll have to get a new one. This is just taken off the phone - and these sort of garnets seem to be easier to photograph than anything else.

Garnet definately rocks!!!!

 

[Lefty]

Took a while to get an acceptable photo but here's a nice 3.15 carat light pink Harts range zircon, cut in a round brilliant but with a double cut pavilion, which really helps enhance the sparkle! It shows really good dispersion as well.

 

[Lefty]

That doubling of the facets really gives zircons away!

 

[Pat Hogen]

There you go, one of my favourite stones and colours, especially when faceting and the finish is alluring. Nice work Sir! A standard SRB or one with a twist?

 

[Lefty]

Cheers Pat. The crown is a standard SRB but the pavillion has about twice the number of facets of a normal SRB - it really worked well! Although we can probably expect a zircon to be pretty lively anyway because it's a zircon, with that awesome RI

Most of these Harts range zircons appear to be some shade of pink. Of all the rough I have sitting here, probably 90%+ are pink, with a few colourless and pale yellow. There's just one here that looks to be a very interesting sort of cognac-colour. I'm not sure how much good material is in that one yet.

 

[The Big Smo]

That is lovely stone cut well.

I see it is up for sale,would look magnificent in a custom made ring.

Sweet

 

[Lefty]

That is lovely stone cut well.

I see it is up for sale,would look magnificent in a custom made ring.

Sweet

Cheers mate, yep would look great in a ring or pendant. Nice and firey when you see it moving. I've got a video but not sure how to post it here - think you need to have a youtube channel. I can facet stones but I'm not so great with computers

 

[Mr Magoo]

think you need to have a youtube channel.

It's pretty easy to set up Lefty. IIRC having a Gmail account helped.

Nice stone BTW. :Y:

 

[dam it]

Lefty you never cease to Amaze me :gemstone:
That is a Thing of Beauty

 

[Lefty]

Cheers guys

I had a nice big bag of Harts range garnets and zircons land in my lap - a lot of the zircons are smashed and a lot of the garnets are over-dark but there are some really nice ones of both types in there as well. I've been cutting more garnets than anything because I just love them but there's some zircons in there that I've ignored for too long I think.

But it might be time for something different soon.

 

[Dihusky]

Wow :inlove: , that dances!!

 

[Lefty]

Wow :inlove: , that dances!!

She sure does, especially seen moving

Though I think I should probably have chosen a paler bark/natural material background to allow the light pink to stand out more.