A few of the gems and stones I’ve cut and polished for use in my jewelry…
Clear Quartz from Brazil cut in a “Frost Star Hex” (6.05 carats, 12.25 mm in diameter [11 mm across the hexagonal flats]). Design by Andrew Ian Brown and published in his free PDF book “Twelve Easy Gemstone Faceting Designs – A guide for the beginner Gemcutter”.
A Yellow Cubic Zirconia cut in Jeff R. Graham’s “Graham Portuguese” design with 161 facets (13.50 carats at 11.75 mm diameter).
An Amethyst (Quartz) from Brazil cut in a “Charles Schlagel Quartz” SRB (0.85 carats, 6 mm). Design in an article by Charles Parsons, Gem & Minerals Magazine, March 1966.
A Santa Ana Madeira Citrine (Quartz) “Golden Steps” Emerald Cut (0.80 carats, 5×8 mm). Design by Greg Glenn.
A Citrine Quartz cut in a “Custom Hybrid” design (2.75 carats, 9.50 mm diameter). Design by myself (crown) and Michiko Huynh (pavilion).
A Sunstone (Labradorite) cut as a “Brilliant Pear” (1.00 carat, 7 x 8.15 mm). Design by Jeff R. Graham.
A video of a Yellow Cubic Zirconia faceted in Jeff R. Graham’s “Smith Bar” opposing bar-cut design (11.50 carats at 11.8 x 9.2 mm) showing the pixelating effects the facets play on light.
A beautiful Arizona Peridot cut as a Standard Round Brilliant (0.5 carats at 5 mm in diameter). An SRB cut has 73 facets total, which helps to give many gems lots of sparkle and flash.
A “Floater Trillion” design in Brown Topaz (0.85 carats at 6.35 mm in diameter). Another great design by Jeff R. Graham.
An “Easy Eight” in Yellow CZ (9.25 carats, 11.85 mm diameter) and an “Easy Cushion” in Violet CZ (5.40 carats, 8.65 mm square). Both designs by Jeff R. Graham.
Two gems cut in the “GeM101” design by Tom Herbst in Clear Quartz and Amethyst Cubic Zirconia (CZ), weighing in at 1.6 carats (9.5 mm diameter) and 3.75 carats (9.15 mm diameter) respectively.
Two Butterfly Jasper heart cabs, one 26×26 mm and the other 20×20 mm.
Three Mahogany Obsidian cabs in oval and teardrop.
Three Maury Mountain Moss Agate cabs in oval and free-form kite.
Two Maury Mountain Moss Agate cabs with druzy pockets in oval and free-form quadrilateral.
Three Maury Mountain Moss Agate cabs in round, teardrop and oval.
Two Green Jasper free-forms, Sodalite oval and Tiger Eye oval and slim-oval.
A Carnelian Agate oval and two free-forms.
Chinese Writing Stone ovals and a pear.
Two Turritella Agate free-forms, three ovals, a tear-drop and a pear.
Unakite ovals and slim-oval.
Black Marble ovals, slim-ovals, tear-drop and round (a couple with white quartz veining).