I enjoy all your videos as I'm new to faceting you're a great teacher thank you

I love you Vintage Time. I have lots of stress and anxiety, and watching your videos are mellow-making. Kudos.

Very nice video, Cliff. Like most cutters, I was sick to see the girdle fracture. Thanks for sharing your work.

Thanks just preparing to cut iolite. Fortunately I always use epoxy as I once shattered a 100 carat tanzanite while transferring when I used wax. It was the start of my using epoxy.

I love Iolite! It has such a striking hue of blue! Shame on that beautiful stone for giving you fits!😉 Thanks for letting us watch your fantastic work!💎❤👏

Glad to see a new gem, learn some good info too.

Great video, I always learn something from your videos. Thank you Cliff and Jaws.

Oh thank you for going all the way with it, even if it fractured at the very end! I love your videos and this just drives the point home that things happen beyond our control and all we can do is learn from them. Your work is inspiring! I am saving up for a faceting machine for myself. I've been wanting to cut gems for a very long time!

Wonderful! You could carve four facits in the hole, line it with gold or silver, and call it the compass stone!

Aww shucks...... an Iolite bit Cliff too lol. After my disastrous Iolite faceting attempt a few weeks ago I learned that if your Iolite has any inclusions, make a lovely cabochon with nice rounded edges. I've been cabbing my small pile for about a decade. It holds together well in cabochon form. I still have a 5 gallon bucket full. It came from Connecticut. The Vikings used Iolites for navigation. It acts as a polarizing filter & allowed the sailors to find the sun behind cloud cover. And newer diesel trucks have this(in the form of cordierite) in the exhaust system to capture carbon. Keep them coming, Cliff ! And thanks for showing how much of a PITA faceting Iolite is lolol - you helped my ego to recover somewhat after my Iolite faceting fiasco ; ^ )

You must have taken your chill pill that day with that cool reaction to a chip

Well now I’m in the mood to cut some cordierite.

Lovely gem, I particularly like how the light brings out the different colours. Shame about the fracture - but I'd wear it anyhow ,-)!

That was a treat! Thank you for the video.

Great wk, I’m just starting out in this lapidary trade. And I’m in Love with it. Learning quickly, thank You for all Your Content. 🙏🏽💎✌🏽🔴🎥🎙🌎

Did not now anything about this special gem Iolite or Water Sapphire before but as a blue person ( i love the color ) and colorshift of the stone it´s wonderful gem and your work is amazing even if sometimes a mistake can happen and without doing them it´s hard to learn! Hugs, Susanne.

What a beautiful gem still a great specimen.

Muito linda sua pedra. Fiquei encantada com a cor.

I like your disk rack, great idea.👌

Very very nice

I read iolite as LOLite, as always great video. Also congrats on 17K

I love the cabasion (sp- spell check grr) cut for this gem.

Love your videos !!! From Greensboro North Carolina, I'm learning from you a lot some times wish you mention the type of disk and the grit you used overall they are fantastic an great learning expereance

It's still a nice stone even with the chip. Polish the chip out and cover that with a unique prong, or recut it into a triangle or something.

We learn much more from our mistakes and we dont forget as easily.You did a fine job! wonders whether we will see it in a recut further down the track?

That's interesting because I have chipped the girdle on an Iolite as I was setting it. No you don't want to know the new nicknames for that stone. I had never heard about the problem with their girdles before. Yours looked good up and until the chip.

Vary goods work sir.

Hi Cliff, unlucky with the girdle, but still a wonderful video, and beautiful gemstone.

What a lovely stone with the exception of its brittle properties. Is there any remedial faceting you can do to try to salvage the gem? (Hello from Canada, btw)

Beautiful

Very informative :)

good job

It looks like Tanzanite its very beaut

Dear Vintage Time. My dops have no index pin. I have to eyeball it, vertical, when the dop is in the transfer jig. Can You help?

great stone i have about 4000 cts rough myself maybe i can cut some

You sound so calm after the stone broke. Had it been me the video would have been demonetized for all the swearing.

What a bummer, looked like a great stone.

Cool gem, I had never heard of it.

love from india where would i get this machine ?

What a shame after all that hard work..I know it takes much longer than the video to cut these beautiful stones,but I guess you know a lot more about them nor ..it is so beautiful too and the depth of colour is gorgeous 😀

Better than what, don't think Tim would agree with you on whats better,sapphire or tanzinite. Mind you do know your stuff pity it chipped but a learning experience 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💎😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💎

What is the weight of the rough and afyer cut??

SHKW US HOW TO CUT THIS STONE😍😊👏👏👏

I think cushion cut would have give you more yield of the stone.

awesome video mate i have always loved Iolite,,,, I'm an aussie prospector and i have a few small pieces of Australian Iolite i would love to get cut if you are interested in cutting some aussie Iolite

If this type of stone were to be heat treated would it lose it's color and would it become a harder or softer stone? Thanks, always love watching the progression of each stone you cut.

Shame it chipped, it has an amazing colour. Could you recut the gem to get rid of the chip out?

Muito bonito seu trabalho.

Do u take apprentices?

What machine would you recommend for a beginner.

What kind of machine is this?

how cratz of that rough sir? and how cratz has been fisnish gems?

What does a vail in the stone mean?

That is disappointing that the stone cracked; it was beautiful! How do you know when to stop grinding? Does your machine have a setting, or do you do it by eye?

How about a yogo sapphire from Montana?

Does he use the grindings?

🤩 çok güzelllll....

Where do you get the protractor equipment? I don't know what to search for. I have seen them on wish or something cheap from China, but I wonder how they hold up. Is what you use a facetron?

Top top top ❤️❤️

what do you do with the bucket of run off water after your cut a gem?

Do you do this for fun or professionally? Who do you sell the cut jewels to?

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It’s wrong way cut it blue foun anther side

who ever did the 2 dislikes have no souls

I am as disappointed as you are about the unfortunate fracture after all of your hard work. The stone's color was so pretty. But as you said, you learned something from the experience. Is there any way to salvage it in a setting?

Too bad it is so brittle, it is a beautiful gem.

Ficou bonita

Uau lindo demais Parabéns super joinha

I cried

I think I'm more disappointed than you are about the outcome. The fracture is a pity especially as the gem has such a beautifully intense color. I have a 1.00ct Iolite that is bluish-gray. I'm guessing the table is not along the optimal axis for color. Viewing from the side shows a deeper blue.

I cri

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