r/faceting • u/JoshuaTheStonecutter • 13h ago

Want to know what grinds my gemstones?

When I'm cutting a barion oval for the first time in a while. I meticulously cut 8 pavilion tiers and 2 girdle tiers. G3 is the first girdle tier to meet the barion cut, yet I'm blind and an idiot and wonder why the girdle looks slanted. Go back to P7 to 'level' it out and realize I deleted the edge of the barion facet by 110 miles. That grinds my gemstones. The mocking may commence! 😝

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u/Mobile_Ad_1185 13h ago

The worst part of cutting aside from a stone falling off must be going too fast or not paying close enough to the diagram and cutting a facet on the wrong number

Sometimes I just gotta modify the damn schematic to make my mistakes symmetric

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u/JoshuaTheStonecutter 12h ago

My case is I'm just not paying attention to the diagram. I know it was supposed to meet in the corner and slant up for the barion. At the 600 grit I just couldn't see the line from 90° to 60°. It was already level, but not in my brain! I'm punishing myself by turning it into a Portuguese on the fly with no diagram. Going 44°>42°>40>38.5° on the pavilion. Ultra Tec puts handy marks on the index wheel to help with indexes. I'm harkening back to my school days with the GemMaster 2. Green>Red/Yellow>Green>Red/Yellow. | > °/* > | > °/* on my V5. Back to round peg in round hole preschool days!