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General Category => Welcome! => Topic started by: Jac on June 25, 2023, 09:34:08 AM
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Thanks to the Lapidary forum Team to welcome me as a member.
My name is Jac and I am a beginning faceter in Holland (The Netherlands).
In my country the group of faceters is very limited and no forum available, hence my application here.
I hope that this community will help me to overcome the issues toward succesful faceting.
Greetings from Holland!
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Welcome. Unfortunately there are not many facetors here now. The Australian facetors seem to be the most active over the years and you may find back posts that answer your questions. Faceting has never been easier than today with the wide array of excellent grinding and polishing lars available now. You may be able to find internet groups focused on the machine you own but things change quickly with things lapidary as the hobby as a whole has been very stressed for years with sky rocketing equipment prices keeping many from participating. Your especially lucky because there are such good quartz pre polish and polishing laps that you can practice with decent size quartz cuts which were very difficult years ago. If one teaching system doesn't seem intuitive try others
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Thank you for your reply. It is true that costs to start are high, but in the USA I found the right equipment.
Despite of the Australian faceters, foundations to make cutting available to many of us, is thanks to the wonderful designs of a.o. the late Jeff Graham, Robert Long, Norman Steele, Fred van Sant etc
Many of their designs are luckily made public.
However it is hard to find Jeff Grahams Gram faceting Additions. RockPeddler states on their website “out of print” for Addition #4 etc
I hope someone on this forum can help me out here?
More specific I am searching for the faceting diagram of his design “Pounded Shield” in this addition 4.
I searched the internet but found nothing although I am willing to pay for the rights.
Regards, Jac
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We had a facetors club in Seattle that was run by Long and Steele. We had many amazing evenings listening to them recount the discoveries they had made the previous month. Two very nice giving people who were immensely talented.
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Jac I just searched for Pounded Shield and found it on the gem society.org site. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but here is the link. Oops never mind it is the description only and directs you to the rockPedler site. Did they ever post if to the Magazines? Lapidary Journal or Rock and Gem you think?
I will look through my library, I have several books and binders of facet diagrams and instructions. Not sure if this particular design is much newer than what I might have in print. I have a couple faceting machines but only dabbled a short time in faceting. I'll check and post after I look in the next day or 2.
Steve
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Hi Steve, thanks for your effort. I already emailed The Rockpeddler for Jeff Graham’s Addition #4, but the replied “out of print” without any further help. Although they sell the property rights.
I hope you can get this specific faceting diagram.
Regards,
Jac
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Hello Jac from south of Seattle Washington!!!
I have ZERO knowledge of faceting so i am no help lol!
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:wav:
Welcome!
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Not good new so far. I checked the patterns that I have in my file cabinet at my workbench and although I have publications from the 2 authors nothing on the one you are looking for. I was also surprised how I had forgotten the crazy variety of patterns people have come up with and that was refreshing. I will continue to look elsewhere through my files though but so far coming up short.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks again for your search effort!
Indeed there are so many fabulous designs. Thats is why I started faceting to combine with my gold/silversmithing.
I hope that in this forum another member will search for Jeff Graham’s Pounded Shield design or even his Addition #4.
Kind regards, Jac
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https://www.gemsociety.org/article/cc-pounded-shield-faceting-design-diagram/
Try here
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Yeah this is out there but doesn't give him anything new. It directs you to go to the rockpeddler site which he said that he already followed and they said it is out of print. I found this also but realized he had already tried that. Great that we are all looking though. One of us might get lucky.
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I really appreciate all your efforts!
Thanks, Jac