cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19200551
Took this the other day a bit before the rain moved in.
This stone was cut by my son using his own design. YAG is a man made crystal used in lasers. Most YAG that cutters get comes from rejected crystal that didn't meet specs.
None of these pictures do it justice as it had almost as much fire as my wife's engagement ring.
This is interesting... I would not have considered using some of the tools of the trade for the purposes you have outlined.
You can see and read about some of the equipment I use in this post. I did a whole series of posts around how I cut stones.
In terms of equipment, there is a pinned post in this community that has some links as well.
Happy to answer any questions you might have.
Been super busy with life, but finally got back to cutting. This is the second of four chrome diopside stones I'm cutting.
Amazing and intense. One of the best I’ve ever witnessed.
Non-cloud cams with an nvr all the way. I won’t touch the cloud based services. My go to is currently Reolink.
Fantastic job!!!! Love it! (No comment about the girdle 😉😂)
Unfortunately this stone has a fracture and inclusion right at the cutlet.
Nothing I could do, so decided to finish the stone and hope it held together. Here is another view of the pavilion.
I like the color, too bad the light return wasn’t what I was looking for.
This is one of the most perfect cuts I've managed. The meet points are all as perfect as I could get, as well as the polish. I chose a more standard round cut than what my son designed as I wanted to lighten the stone more due to the overall color saturation of the material.
I'm going to cut a second calibrated to match, and get them set for my wife.
My son has really started to get into faceting. He bought a boule of hydrothermal emerald(man made) as he wanted to cut a design he made specific to emerald.
He sliced the emerald in half and gave me one half while he cut his up into the sizes he was going to facet.
I was mostly hands off with this and only really helped out when his stone popped off the dop. He did a great job!
This is neat.. I just tried “faceting lemmy” and my community came up on top.
This is me almost every morning around 5am.. 😭
I found it entertaining but a bit shallow in terms of dialog. It felt aimed at the younger crowd. Don’t get me wrong it was most definitely a fun read.
I like the color, and I think it would work well as a pendant, maybe wire wrapped?
Nice job!
Under hobbies, I run a community on gemstone faceting that I'm trying to get some traction on, can you add this to your list?
This reminds me of my dad and grandfather having good natured arguments about who was going to pay. It would last a good 5-10 minutes, with one of them ‘winning’. It was all in good fun, and the wait staff usually had a blast watching.
In reality, they alternated who would pay, and did this mostly for fun.
1Password for years, never had any issues.
If you have your settings setup to not show read posts, then it won’t show your own posts to you.
As a hearing aid wearer myself, I would question the validity of this as a viable alternative to real hearing aids for moderate to severe loss.
Of course many people with hearing loss will use these instead of getting professionally tested and fitted.