by Dave Woolley, Geologist Senior, VDOTOriginally Published in the Gem and Mineral JournalNewsletter of the Lynchburg Gem and Mineral SocietyDedicated to Bill and Joan Baltzley This column will be devoted to ideas submitted by members who are stone cut …

by Fred Van Sant Most faceters I have talked to agree that the action of diamond in polishing is best when it is a scraping action rather than a tumbling and chipping action. On coarse diamond cutting laps, where the diamond is bonded into the lap surf …

by Art Kavan, Old Pueblo Lapidary Club Using the ceramic can be very frustrating and at times even with a lot of experience it can be difficult and bring a little humility back into your life. When you get it working there is nothing like it. I use a F …

by Sumner Olsen – Originally Published in the United States Faceter’s Guild Newsletter This article had its genesis at the 1999 Northwest Faceter’s conference at Kennewick, Washington when Jack Gross sat down with me while I was demonstrating a new fac …

by Glenn Klein Charging cutting laps and scoring polish laps are two entirely different procedures which we faceters have to perform at certain times. One procedure does not do the job of the other. One procedure is done so that certain of our laps wil …

I read with interest an article in The Midwest Faceter, Sept. ’93 called “When All Else Fails”, about polishing the table of a topaz stone which another cutter had made parallel to the cleavage plane. The writer, Nat Cohen, from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, …