Faceting Tutorial
 

I found this step by step tutorial for faceting at
http://www.ameritool-inc.com/faceting-tutorial.htm It gives very
detailed steps for grinding and polishing. Check it out.

Faceting Tutorial
 

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:16:06 GMT, "
wrote:

I found this step by step tutorial for faceting at
http://www.ameritool-inc.com/faceting-tutorial.htm It gives very
detailed steps for grinding and polishing. Check it out.

That's not what I think of as faceting g. I'd just call it "cutting
a flat on a bead."

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ

Faceting Tutorial
 

" wrote in
:

http://www.ameritool-inc.com/faceting-tutorial.htm

What is described is a long way from the faceting process, more like
cabbing.

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Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

Faceting Tutorial
 

wrote:
I found this step by step tutorial for faceting at
http://www.ameritool-inc.com/faceting-tutorial.htm It gives very
detailed steps for grinding and polishing. Check it out.



Glass workers are more likely to call that 'cold working' or a form of
cold working. Sometimes the bottom of vases and other forms of glasswork
are machine ground (even handlapped) to remove puntil marks or help an
itme 'stand' correctly. On the bottom of a vase however the glass may
not be polished. And g;ass stoppers for glass bottles are often fitted
by lapping with a carbide slurry .Though of course there are faceted
beads and I have facetd beads my wife has lampworked.
As said, it isn't what most folks in the jewelry trade think of , when
they hear 'faceting'. The think of 'gem faceting' as in the process of
placing flats in an orderly design on diamonds, topaz, etc.


Carl


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