How to facet tiny gems.

Hello and welcome to my channel. In this video you will see how tiny gems are faceted. I'm faceting a Garnet, and the design of the gem is called a "Standard Round Brilliant". Thank you for watching.

[lucycabana]

So glad you addressed this. I've been wanting to see the faceting of a smaller stone and you've provided plenty of reasons why it is different. Thanks!

[Plentisaki]

Wonderful! I love Garnet as a gemstone. Watching this does make me wonder how the Hell the jewellers back in Anglo Saxon times managed to facet and work the stones, and create the wonderful items they did. The Staffordshire Hoard and the Sutton Hoo burial finds amaze me.

[zorro-xkgh]

thank you so much, good good professor .it's easy to understand the price when you must work 5 hours on a so little stones with all the knowledge you must have to get a good and pretty final stone . it is more than work, you are a real artist .

[TroyCottonJr]

I don’t know how I stumbled across this video, watched the whole thing. Clearly a labor of love. Interesting to see this process

[allyb]

How absolutely beautiful to watch. I just started collecting rocks and tumbling a few, and now a lot of crystal and gem videos are coming to me. This is lovely.

[spidersinspace]

Cliff, your videos and narration are a blessing from down under. Thanks

[wayne]

Thankyou for this..I am one week into owning a faceting machine and wouldn't you know it, our gem club is closed for corona break..Im left with miles of spare time so youtube is my tutor and guys like yourself have helped me get started..

[johntaylor]

I have been faceting for many years and it is enjoyable to watch your challenges and approaches. Thanks for the videos.

[michaelbates]

I just re evaluated my confidence in purchasing my first machine!
🎉❤🎉

[TIGMAN]

I'm working on beginner cutting opal. Its always great seeing people doing cool things.

[valeriep.]

I had no idea how how this was done! The term 'cut' had given me the wrong idea all my life snd I'm 68! How did they do it in the days before our modern tools? Wow. I'm impressed.

[SonneCreations]

Excellent tutorial, thank you for sharing this. Small rough is about all I have access to currently. A gemstone faceting friend of mine gave me a ziplock freezer bag of off cuts, small rough, included and fractured rough that he wouldn’t bother with, but I figure there is a small gemstone hiding in each piece of rough. I am just starting my gemstone faceting journey and so videos such as yours are absolutely invaluable. As a content creator myself for sterling silver jewelry I know how important content that encourages artists is. I really appreciate your technique with the smaller gemstones. ❤

[tennpikr]

An excellent video cliff, so many tips and good advice, new faceters are very lucky to have videos like this available nowdays.

[hokkaidoutaima]

Wonderful video, I've been daydreaming about faceting one of these garnets for the past few years. It was love at first sight when I started finding them at my gold mining claim in Finland, but I kept thinking I had to find a larger one to be able to facet it. Thanks for showing that even a modestly sized one can turn out great!

[brucedymock]

Thanks Cliff I learnt a lot small gems have scared me but you make it relatively straight forward

[christoskes]

This time you give so many answers. Thank you very much Cliff. Absolutely love the garnet.

[YDVDL]

Master class Your video is great inspiration!!!! Every time I watch you are making magic with stones.
Unbelievably amazing!!!! My greetings from state of NY, USA.

[Hucklenaut]

Beautiful gem Cliff. Very useful for me as I pick most of my faceting material out of anthills in Wyoming, USA.

[prospectvic]

Thanks Cliff, as newbie who is still waiting for some parts to my machine, I had put aside all my tiny gems thinking I could never do them.

[benjamindejonge]

Old family members had a hand crank driven wheels working in the attic till steam driven diamond fabrics took away the small artificial independent man, nice cut by the way