So I finally finished the garnet’s for the earrings, and am now waiting on the mounts to come in. I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, especially since they are almost exactly the same size!

Left: 4.02mm @ .325 ct Right: 4.01mm @ .320 ct

The one downside here is that the color is different, but my daughter doesn’t care. 😀

I hate doing stones this small, as it takes a really delicate touch and slow lap speed to avoid over cutting the facets. I usually rough in the stone and cut the first tier in 1200, then cut the remaining facets using 3000 so I avoid over cutting.

Finally some sad news, my cutting machine’s motor is acting up and I have a support request in to Ultratec on how to get it resolved. So I won’t be posting any new stones for some time. I’ll try and post some older stuff I still have, as well as rough.