USFG 2025 TUCSON Faceting Symposium

The 2025 USFG Tucson Faceting Symposium is almost here!

The schedule for this FREE event is below – we’d love to have us join you.  Schedule subject to change. Check the USFG Facebook group for the latest!

USFG 2025 TUCSON Faceting symposium

Held in central Tucson at:

Old Pueblo Lapidary club

3118 N Dale Ave

Tucson, AZ 85712

United States

Dates:

Feb 6,7,8 2025

10a-6p

Some of the biggest names in Faceting will be in attendance!!

Feb 4,5 Faceting class taught by Tom Mitchell and Dave Richardson.

$195 for members

$225 for non members

6 spots available

Feb 6,7,8…

A safe space for Synthetics

Great presentations and hands on demos!!

ALL FREE!!

Super hands on experience, a chance to see 3-5 different machines in action!! Awesome presentations!

Fantasy machines, mast machines, a great display!

And…..a Taco truck!!

Featuring:

Our opening act!!

Feb 6 – 10:00 am

NEW!! Nikki Worthy (Goldsmith extraordinaire) will school us on setting stones!!! (Round stones)

Dopping demo

Dopping demos, dopping blues? Come sit and dop!

Very well attended every year, come play!

11:00 am-12:00p

Arya Akhavan

Updates from the Verneuil project. (A lab grown nerd-fest)

12:00 Lunch/ demos

Rough sale or trade during lunch daily

@420 Tacos!!

1:00

Noah Trappier

“My wood lap journey”

2:00

Tayyab Suratwala

What is happening on the surface of the stone.

3:00 –

Steven Tyler the designer

Fantasy cutting demo

Again!! Last year was a hit!

5:00

Feb 7, 10:00 am

NEW!! Nikki Worthy (Goldsmith extraordinaire) will school us on setting stones!!! (Corners)

Dopping

Dave Richardson- The many dopping techniques that address different needs and situations

ie: to glue or not to glue

Feb 7 11:00 am

Mark Oros- Doublets and non traditional materials

12:00 TACOS!!! @420 tacos is back by popular demand!!

Trade or sell your rough!

Feb 7, 1:00-2:00

Sarah Caldwell Steele

Jet: From fossil to facet

Feb 7, 2:00

Clemens Schwarzinger

Garnet nomenclature.

Feb 7 3:00-4:00

Roger Dery.

How to price your work.

We all need this!

(No video recording allowed)

4:30-5:00

Machine Demos! Fantasy, V5, Glass tec,

5:00

Saturday

Feb 8

10:00 am

NEW!! Nikki Worthy (Goldsmith extraordinaire) will school us on setting stones!!! (Finishing technique)

Dopping workshop, bring yours or use a provided fixtures.

Feb 8

11:00

Arya Akhavan

Modern Synthetics market.

Lunch @420 tacos

Sell or trade your rough stock!

1:00-2:00

2:00-3:30

Feb 8, 3:30-3:45pm

Feb 8, 4:00-5:00

Victor Tuzlukov

The story of one Peridot

Feb 8. 5:00 Join in to reset the room!

USFG ends and OPLC famous Hobnob dinner and rough sale/ stone contest begins at 6:00

$20 for a great dinner!

Natural

Synthetic

Fantasy

Our Daily teachers/demonstrators:

Dave Richardson/ Tom Mitchell

Teaching Faceting Feb 4,5

Feb 6,7,8 Dopping and coaching cutters

Feb 6,7,8

Dopping and coaching cutters.

Machine Demos about every hour between talks.

Great door prizes!!

Thank you for the donations from:

Gearloose manufacturing

Ultra Tec USA

Faceters Paradise

(Your name here) please contact me if you would like to be a sponsor!

Thank you to our hosts and volunteers from the OPLC and USFG, you rock!!

Please contact me with any ideas, possible speakers, sponsors, or any clubs/guilds that we could reach out to. Text preferred

David Smith

Faceters Paradise

USFG Board member/

Symposium coordinator

520-907-5527