Reply To: Size and competition › Forums › Article Discussion › Size and competition › Reply To: Size and competition January 21, 2018 at 7:15 pm #3861 Alan BalmerKeymaster @alanbalmer “Last year I had to find a spinel which I had never cut before. I was able to locate a single piece of it on Ebay and it was heavilly cracked” The 2017 pre-master? It called for synthetic spinel, which is quite inexpensive and readily available.