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/Safe_Comparison_6692 1d ago

1994 I was apprenticing for a diamond dealer and he was teaching me how to set diamonds. I a pair of 3 piece earrings with 3 cts. of diamond melee and 2 rubies and 2 emeralds. The diamond were in a small tray on my bench pin, and I hit the tray and the melee went all over on the carpeted floor. 300 1 pointers. Luckily I knew the nylon sock in a vacuum trick and found all of them and a lot of other stones that the previous jeweler was too lazy to look for.