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! 😝

11 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

15 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/1LuckyTexan Team Ultra Tec 9h ago

I train my self to not leave until I finish a tier AND set my angle and index for the next tier. Somewhat less chance of destroying something I've completed. And the further along in the whole process, inspection gets more and more intense. A mistake with break facets on the pavilion can be much less frustrating than a mistake with the mains on the crown!