Stone Cutting

[myfordcnc]

I thought I'd share my other profession with all of you. I have been at it for the past 9 years. I'm working my up to doing the rose egg.

[Diamond Dave]

Now were talking! That takes some talent. What are you using to cut with?

I deal with all sorts of stones daily, I have even tried to polish and round a big batch of opals once.

[myfordcnc]

I use an ultra tec v5. About the hardest thing I can cut is Corundum. In fact it's the soft stuff that's difficult to get a polish on. I can't cut diamonds YET but I'm building another machine that will be able to. It's about 90% done. Although that will be a bit more nerve racking. What kind of stones do you deal with? Is your name a clue?

[Sixtysixdeuce]

Nice!

My stone cutting tools are a bit less sophisticated:

[Incredible_Serious]

This is as close as I can get...

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Heck, I don't even polish my rc cars!!!



Alex

[Diamond Dave]

I deal with all gemstones, buying and selling. The only experience I have had with cutting and polishing is the opal fiasco I mentioned.

I bought a bucket full of rough opal cut, and proceeded to butcher it with my dremel. I was able to get to the point where all the white rock and lime and opal crush was removed and then I used

my bench grinder and many different polishing wheels and compounds to create a few nice opal singlets. A few cabochon as well, no faceted stones.

Good luck with the diamonds. From what we have seen, it looks like you should have no problem getting it done.

What is a few hundred bucks(?) on a rough cut diamond that may not turn out right?