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Post by glennz01 on Mar 26, 2017 2:11:13 GMT -5
Some local AK bornite someone had me make this out of it. First time ive tried this design. All freehand made on my cabbing machine.  |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 26, 2017 7:57:05 GMT -5
Impressive! Is the back flat? Do you use a genie type machine? This took some skill and patience. Good on you, Glenn.  |
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 26, 2017 9:17:39 GMT -5
Nice work Glenn...................Thumbs up
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Post by drocknut on Mar 26, 2017 9:59:25 GMT -5
That sure looks cool.
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Post by glennz01 on Mar 26, 2017 11:44:57 GMT -5
Impressive! Is the back flat? Do you use a genie type machine? This took some skill and patience. Good on you, Glenn. It has 7 sides to it and 7 sides on the point as well. Similar setup to the genie. |
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Post by metalsmith on Mar 26, 2017 14:21:48 GMT -5
Impressive! Is the back flat? Do you use a genie type machine? This took some skill and patience. Good on you, Glenn. It has 7 sides to it and 7 sides on the point as well. Similar setup to the genie. This is reminiscent of some of the early stuff I did freehand on a bench grinder *LOL*. Yes, it takes a lot of patience and development of skills. Keep up the hard work and bear in mind a faceter for the future!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 20:42:41 GMT -5
It has 7 sides to it and 7 sides on the point as well. Similar setup to the genie. This is reminiscent of some of the early stuff I did freehand on a bench grinder *LOL*. Yes, it takes a lot of patience and development of skills. Keep up the hard work and bear in mind a faceter for the future!! Chas u are a terrific cheerleader for faceting. I hope you never change! |
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Post by glennz01 on Mar 27, 2017 21:46:54 GMT -5
eventually i'll try some faceting
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Post by metalsmith on Mar 27, 2017 22:58:31 GMT -5
This is reminiscent of some of the early stuff I did freehand on a bench grinder *LOL*. Yes, it takes a lot of patience and development of skills. Keep up the hard work and bear in mind a faceter for the future!! Chas u are a terrific cheerleader for faceting. I hope you never change! Thanks Scott... I just need to do some now! My facetter and I are temporarily separated, though I'm working on bringing a Lortone Beaver into life so that I can keep busy until I can look forwards to the day we're reunited. This was exactly how I started. I don't want to jump the thread, but here's a small image of a Scottish Carnelian that I cut. Yeah, I agree, looking back,it could do with a polish. 1200# was as much as I had back then. I have 30,000 today. Wow ... looking back ...  The shift from cabbing towards my interest in facetting is quite obvious in my work from this and quite a few other pieces (where the facetting aspects were developing, but not as strong as here). This was probably the most hand-facetted piece that I cut (toss-up between this and a shield-cut chrysocolla). Facetters and glennz01 will appreciate the need to balance every cut. Cutting cabochons by hand in this manner means that every facet needs to be orientated as closely as possible and believe me they don't need to be out much before it is quite clear that symmetry has been lost. Around 0.1mm is my tolerance for hand cutting by eye. So anyone still reading should re-appraise Glennz01's Bornite and imagine how hard it is to match the angles and generate they symmetry he has just by hand. This took freaking hours and several recuts; at the time I was cutting by hand using a bench grinder  Hand-cut Scottish Carnelian  |
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Post by metalsmith on Mar 27, 2017 23:02:50 GMT -5
eventually i'll try some faceting News flash - you already are, my friend!  |
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Post by glennz01 on Mar 28, 2017 0:25:57 GMT -5
Chas u are a terrific cheerleader for faceting. I hope you never change! Thanks Scott... I just need to do some now! My facetter and I are temporarily separated, though I'm working on bringing a Lortone Beaver into life so that I can keep busy until I can look forwards to the day we're reunited. This was exactly how I started. I don't want to jump the thread, but here's a small image of a Scottish Carnelian that I cut. Yeah, I agree, looking back,it could do with a polish. 1200# was as much as I had back then. I have 30,000 today. Wow ... looking back ... The shift from cabbing towards my interest in facetting is quite obvious in my work from this and quite a few other pieces (where the facetting aspects were developing, but not as strong as here). This was probably the most hand-facetted piece that I cut (toss-up between this and a shield-cut chrysocolla). Facetters and glennz01 will appreciate the need to balance every cut. Cutting cabochons by hand in this manner means that every facet needs to be orientated as closely as possible and believe me they don't need to be out much before it is quite clear that symmetry has been lost. Around 0.1mm is my tolerance for hand cutting by eye. So anyone still reading should re-appraise Glennz01's Bornite and imagine how hard it is to match the angles and generate they symmetry he has just by hand. This took freaking hours and several recuts; at the time I was cutting by hand using a bench grinder Hand-cut Scottish Carnelian Can't agree with ya more. I definitely notice when its not close... A lot of my clients say they would rather it not be perfect because that's what differentiates humans from machines. However, i am a perfectionist so 1 minute hardly noticeable scratch sometimes has me re-doing a whole cab  |
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Post by 1dave on Mar 28, 2017 8:38:34 GMT -5
Perfect is Good Enough.
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Post by glennz01 on Apr 2, 2017 12:21:47 GMT -5
Well my next challenge is to make a turtle shaped cab out of some local lepidolite
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The shift from cabbing towards my interest in facetting is quite obvious in my work from this and quite a few other pieces (where the facetting aspects were developing, but not as strong as here). This was probably the most hand-facetted piece that I cut (toss-up between this and a shield-cut chrysocolla).
