Master's Level Design: Montana Madness
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- The United States Faceting Guild design for the masters competition is called “Montana Madness”. Bopie likes the way this design looks. Old trim pieces of citrine lemon quartz from a previous project a while back.
One of the designs chosen for the United States Faceting Guild Master’s Level competition is the “Montana Madness” design by Arya Akhavan. Bopie really likes the way this design looks, so she wants Mike to cut it for her! Watch as award-winning gem cutter, Michael Sackos, Facets this Master’s level design using some old trim pieces of lemon quartz.
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Came out really great!
Thank you.
Thank You for the content..
You are very welcome!
Very, very nice
Thank you very, very much.
watching your video from Brazil
Hello Brazil! Welcome!!!
awesome stone
Thank you. Yes the final gemstone turned out great.
Nice!!
Thank you.
Love your videos
Thank youi,
Thank you once again Michael for your great video on faceting techniques. Bravo !!!
Thank you for the kind words.
Nice work bopies 😊. Still haven’t ordered the good laps yet but hopefully soon. I sure want to try that batt lap . Have a good one
Thanks. Well there is good news for you about the Batt laps. Jon at Gearloose just sold the manufacturing of the Batt's to Ultra Tec so UT will be producing the Batt's going forward. Jon can focus on his other lines....and he has taken up cutting again, now that he as some time to cut.
@@BOPIESDiamondsFineJewelry well that’s good although they will probably triple in price. Ultra Tex is pretty proud of there stuff
Absolutely loved this design great job thanks
Thank you! Bopie, my wife, also loves the dseign.
Great job 👍
Thanks.
Hi I love your videos thank you for taking the time. I would like to know where you buy your rough stones like the chatem emeralds. I also have just started cutting. I live in Australia
If you send me a message on my Facebook (Mike Sackos) we can discuss sources. As far as Chatham Emerald rough, it is no longer available. Tom Chatham used to bring some of his rough to the Tucson Shows every year. But he stopped about 3 years ago. At that time I bought the last of the rough he had. I have met w/Tom since then and he is not selling the rough anymore. He is selling cut Chatham created Emeralds, but no rough. I know that several other cutters have reached out to Tom, but they all get the same answer - he no longer sells the rough. There are other labs that create emerald rough.
Hi thank you for your reply, I have just got some very bad news last Wednesday so I’m in for a battle of my life. I’m going to have to leave it for now hopefully I will be back in contact I love your videos so muh.
Show
Thank you.
Hi Mike, do you have any advice to remove slurry that has been sucked into a fracture on the bottoms of a piece of sapphire?
If you send me as message on FB we can discuss (Mike Sackos). I do know one person who can remove it, but he's not going to tell anyone how he does it (proprietary secret) as he does this for a living. Some techniques for avoiding having slurry sucked into a fracture include, filling the fracture with wax during the cutting of the gemstone or using a lap that doesn't create a slurry such as a 50,000 grit lap from Lightning Laps.
Awesome 👌
Just a simple question, is there any place I could buy used good condition untratech faceting machines?
Thank you😊
Buy an Ultratech, it will make you a much better cutter. If you really want to buy 2nd hand, ask the people at your local mineral club, where to get one in your area.
@@jameswelch1054 Thank you for your suggestion but is hard to find here used good one as we do not have many gem cutters.
There is always some risk in buying anything used, including faceting machines. I would say there are two good 'places' to search. The first is a local lapidary club in your area, if you have one. Many of these clubs have equipment and training available on gem cutting, so you can try out different machines. Once you get to know the members of the club, you may find one who is ready to sell his/her machine. The second 'place' I would suggest looking is on Face Book. There are many sites related to gem cutting. One site is called "Faceting Machines Buy & Sell" and if any machine shows up for sale in any social media site, they will note it on this FB page. That site has uncovered several ebay scams reusing legit photos from real sales. You can get fair deals on good machines....but you will be hard pressed to find a super bargain as there are many gem cutters who would snap up a 2nd machine, if the price was very low, and they would turn around and sell it for the 'fair' price....so you can get a good used machine as a fair price, but I don't think you are going to find a good machine for a couple of hundred $s. Best of luck.
@@BOPIESDiamondsFineJewelry Lots of information, thank you very much for your kindness, I will think of what you said and decide what to go for,
Thank you again, 😊
@@samluck5185 Where are you located?