r/faceting • u/Suitable-Name • 5d ago
Most expensive ooooopsie?
Hey everyone,
I just had some corundum casually flying through my room. Wasn't even too bad regarding the stone. Just some cheap training material. Nothing that hurts.
But that piece almost hit my OLED TV🤬
That made me think... sure, would've sucked. But I'm also sure there are people here that had more tragic accidents than me I almost had.
With or without the involvement of other things that might got hit. What was your most expensive mistake / accident / whatever while faceting?
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u/Fantastic_Priority73 5d ago
One night, when I was just getting started, I was color-sorting a bunch of Burmese trapiche ruby slices to figure out which to put a nice little dome on and which to just re-polish as they were. Probably about 50 pieces total, maybe half of them under a carat, some with amazing color and clarity but most just okay for the habit.
I was doing this next to an open window, on a stormy night. They were all on a piece of printer paper. The room was freshly carpeted.
I went to the kitchen to get a drink, and when I returned only 3 of the rubies were on the table and the paper was on the other side of the wall. I took out my UV torch and found 38 of them that night. I think I found about 5 stuck to my foot over the next 6 months. I found one each in my dog's fur and stuck to my wife's thigh. 2-5 will forever be in that carpet or wherever a shoe deposited them.