Australian Competitions – United States Faceters Guild

The Australian Facetors’ Guild’s biennial International Faceting Challenge is generally considered to be the Olympics of faceting. The stone designs for the International Faceting Challenge are selected with one primary goal in mind – to test a cutter’s faceting skills to the utmost.

A precursor to the International Faceting Challenge is the Australian Facetors’ Guild’s annual competition. Stone designs for this annual competition cover a broader range of difficulty, ranging from novice to intermediate to open.

Since the Australians approach faceting competitions with an attitude of presenting faceters with extreme faceting challenges, these designs should be available for cutting by our readers. To this end, this web page will present as many of the Australian competition designs as can be collected and as time and space permit.

2004 Australian International Competition

Sponsored by the Australian Facetors’ Guild

This competition is open to facetors from Australia and overseas and is conducted in three skill division – Novice, Intermediate and Open.
Schedules containing conditions, diagrams and entry forms may be obtained from Tony Annear (5 Altona Court, East Doncaster, Vic. 3109).
All entries for this competition must be received no later than FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2004.

Submission Date: July 21, 2004
Event Date: September 11/12, 2004
Categories:

Novice:
Novice – Joker
Novice – Primus
Novice – Standard Round Brilliant
Novice – Standard Square Step
Novice – Tre-Foil
Novice – Triple Bounce

Intermediate:
Intermediate -Australian Millenium
Intermediate – Klingon Outpost
Intermediate – Loris
Intermediate – Round Brilliant Barion

Open:
Open – Diamond Lil
Open – Geminorum
Open – Kokomo Cushion Cut
Open – Mini Barion
Open – Oblong Step Cut
Open – Olympic Gem

2002 International Faceting Challenge

Sponsored by the Australian Facetors’ Guild

Eight Ball
Mini Barion Chevron Crown
Linda

2002 Australian International Competition

Sponsored by the Australian Facetors’ Guild

This competition will be held at Warwick Queensland on the 14/15th September 2002, it is open to facetors from Australia and overseas and is conducted in three skill division – Novice, Intermediate and Open.
Schedules containing conditions, diagrams and entry forms may be obtained from Nelson Robertson (nelsonjr@ozemail.com.au).
All entries for this competition must be received no later than FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2002.

Submission Date: July 19, 2002
Event Date: September 14/15, 2002
Categories: