Hey Mark, I am really diggin' that soft music playing in the background.

@marksgemfaceting

8 ай бұрын

I spent my childhood years in India so I love music from that region, and since the machine is from Sri Lanka and it’s an eastern style of faceting it fits. Favourite artist Anoushka Shankar.

Transparent “blue obsidian” = manmade glass.

@marksgemfaceting

2 жыл бұрын

Thought it might be as not a natural obsidian colour, however it is just to get experience with faceting. I suspect most gems sold on certain well known sites are not what they profess to be. Do you sell the real thing? I will try and look you up. I always go into purchasing rough with the premiss that if it’s cheap it’s probably fake.

Great work

@marksgemfaceting

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement

@user-ev9rb4lt1w

2 жыл бұрын

Excellently

vidro industrial!

its window glass mate. and obsidian is silica not quartz, quartz is mostly silica. have a good day mate, and make more videos.

Awesome job. Are you self taught or did you take some courses?

@marksgemfaceting

2 жыл бұрын

Self taught by watching KZread videos. If you go to my site you will see recommendations to the people I watched. I went for the kit firstly on price and by watching Justin k prims videos and liking the back to basics machine. I started May last year.

@vectorv750

2 жыл бұрын

@@marksgemfaceting incredible achievements in such a short period of time. Could you leave your website address here, I would like to check it out. One more question just out curiosity. What do you do with gems that you cut.

@marksgemfaceting

2 жыл бұрын

A good question, what do you do with the gems. I made my first ring this weekend and after three very frustrating attempts at soldering silver and trying not to melt it I was quite pleased with the result. I will try and mount the gems in the future and give them to my wife to hopefully improve her mode. That’s a joke if she reads this. The information about good tutorials is on my KZread channel page, just tap the icon.

@vectorv750

2 жыл бұрын

@@marksgemfaceting great, you even may start making money out of your hobby in the future by the selling your hand made jewelries. Obviously after you fill up the jewelry box of your wife😁

what grit did you use for the pre-polish?............. yes, pears arent easy.

@marksgemfaceting

Жыл бұрын

3000 diamond disk, then 10000 polishing powder.