It was Soooooo!!!! Nice to see a new video. 😀😁😀😁😀😁😀😁😀Thanks bye for now!!!!

Free form cuts are so exciting!

Exquisite!! It looks like a Ceylon sapphire!!

Good Luck in the competition,I hope you share the prize with Jaws as you make a great team. I liked the Intro Music by the way.

Beautiful designer. Very well cut. I hope to cut beautiful stones like that someday.

Unusual design cliff ,beautiful colour ,well done, cheers.

My initial reaction was "this colour looks very artificial" but the finished gem is like a slice of ocean water. Wow! 👍

You did a beautiful job cutting, i hope you win the competition. some day i want to try a freeform gem.

Really beautiful stone, I hope you win the contest.

What a great job you did! And the shape is very specific Congratulations Cliff!

You really are an inspiration to us newbies to faceting. :) thanks for taking the time to make these videos.

looks beautiful!!!

Beautifully cut gem.

Very nicely done.👍 Glass and quartz are indeed silicon dioxide mostly, the main distinction being one is man made the other Mother Nature made.😁🖖

Another beauty Cliff! Wishing you the best in the competition!

impressive sir.., a winner! good luck!

you really are Mastering these shield type designs , stunning

Outstanding! Brilliant! Turned out better than I thought it would. Perhaps after you win, you might one day post the cuts😉💎

I love the color blue and when I initially heard this was a man-made material and saw the initial material I was not the least bit impressed, however, your excellent job of faceting this material and the gemstone produced has certainly changed my mind. Great job. Thanks for sharing Cliff.

Talk about a mesmerising reveal! That is such an awesome design. Go jaws. What kind of killer cut will he come up with next?? Fingers crossed. you never know, you could be the first to get 2 in a row!

Great job Cliff!!! Thank you for all the handy tips and tricks you show us. It has decreased my cutting time by at least half. I really appreciate the videos you do!!!

That's a cool, funky design. I really like it.

Blue is my favorite color, and this stone is so pretty, you are very talented :-)

Great job thank you so much

Best of luck mate!

You must start online lessons Cliff or sir Cliff? Wonderful cut.

🌟 That's a winner for sure, Cliff!!! 👍🏼 The color depth is amazing, and Jaws came up with a mix that showcases your perfect meets both in the step crown and the complicated pavilion. Good Job all around, my friend.😍

Parabéns...seu trabalho foi muito bem executado.

Beautiful, best of luck! We love your work/videos.

Wow, what a colour! I don't think I've ever seen quartz in such a deep blue hue, very pretty though. The cut is lovely, I do believe you have a shot at winning (again!). Good luck with the competition Cliff.

Absolutely stunning and the cut is so perfect for this stone ,as it’s brought out the colour much more ,at first I thought it was going to be a lot lighter,until you started cutting 😀

Dope! My plan to grow copper sulphate crystal and duplicate ocean heart from Titanic.

Hi Cliff and of course Jaws. Wow! Ok I love the cut. I watched the video more than once before commenting. These facets on the gem are all sharp, crisp and flat. Something I dream of achieving and constantly strive for. The meets are awesome and show me what's possible as I continue to learn. I have heard facetors speak of their various prepolish steps, but seeing what you did on the copper lap made it make more sense to me. I usually see folks go from a very worn 1200 to a final polish or a 2500 or 3000 to a final polish. Seeing you add the extra step made more sense of what I have only heard about from other professionals. On the pavilion your steps of final polishing before the 3rd tier was cut made sense to me in that the final pavilion meets looked like they came together easier and better. Makes me wish I had seen this before. Your process on the crown I have heard of before by people who have sworn by it like you said but not having been taught this way it seemed that it would be time consuming in my minds eye. However, having seen the process now in your video I can see where this may be more of a time saver and improve accuracy of meets. Cliff the gem is a stunner! Thank you for sharing your work.

Quartz and glass have the same composition but different structures. The definition of glass is a material that has been cooled sufficiently rapidly to prevent crystal formation, whereas quartz has a crystalline structure. I would assume this is why quartz is harder - its regular structure and plenty of bonds between atoms provide superior strength. On to your cut gem. I was hoping you would raise the camera angle slightly, we could not see right down at a right angle to the table. I worry that your gem has no internal fire or brilliance (I am absolutely a gem noob so I don't know if that is what you were going for). All of the sparkles came from the outer surfaces and I couldn't see any internal light play like in a diamond. As I said I am a noob so perhaps I am expecting the wrong thing. I also believe you when you say it is better in person. It is certainly an interesting cut, and I am glad that it looks to preserve more material than a round brilliant does.

Such a strong beautiful blue, darker stones are always prettier than the lighter ones in my opinion.

At a certain angle it ooks a bit like a self portrait by Jaws! (Hrrrrr hrrrrhrrrrrr hhrrrrrrr!)

Nice gem and intressing design. And the material is Hydrothermal Quartz That is made from real Quartz in an Autoclave that has been grown on a seed. I can reccomend the book ”Gems made by man” by Kurt Nassau about synthetic gems.

Hi Cliff, Thanks for your videos - I have been enjoying them. Thanks for the tip on stone cleaning during polishing using lens cleaner. Don't know if I can get some to try here in Scotland. I have used chamois leather in the past. Have not cut a gem for many years but hope to begin again, having gained some inspiration from watching your videos. Thanks again. JS.

Beautiful result as usual. Thanks for the lens wipes tip about removing dust and lint! I was not aware of the hydro quartz controversy but it definitely is not a glass but a man made crystal. Some may be disappointed that it is not natural. Of course that doesn't mean that some aren't selling glass and calling it hydro quartz. At this time I'm wary of gems from India, as the specs and quantities are high but the prices are too low. They are in "too good to be true territory"

Looks Great. I use an 1940’s MDR Master machine and I found more consistency by polishing out each facet steps like you did on the crown. Have you ever tried the 3M film laps? I have gone all the way out to a 200,000 for a final polish on some special stones. Incredible results.

This gem makes me remember giratina's chest gem. Pokemon has marked my life XD

Wish that material is topaz or zircon...that's will be much2 better with the luster..anyway this also beautiful...keep it up sir..

Looks like deep glacial ice.

It's a beautiful piece. Less showy that a sparkly scintillator so the cut has to do it justice and you did just that. So...... what did the judges think?

Wow!!! This is utterly amazing! You are extremely talented my friend! Very good work indeed! If you don't win this competition then those judges are blind! Good luck, but i think you'll win anyway! P l ease let us know how it goes for ya, ok?

Interesting material & cut. What would be the price difference between a similar block of glass vs man made quartz ?

It looks almost identical to a piece of artificial spinel I have. I've been cutting it into smaller pieces to facet though.

What came first, The facet machine or the Rolex?

Great job, what would be the price of it ?

I'd kinda been wondering how long it takes you to facet one of these gems? I've heard that for an SRB cut it takes about 8 hours from start to finish.

Blue and green glass, how much is the price?

Hi I have a stone like carbonado diamond please help me to identify if that black stone is carbonado diamond.. also I have meteriore stone

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Cliff, I can't listen to the audio of your videos any longer. I find it really interesting what you have to say, but the music is too much. Please choose a different, less beaten to death, song. Even better, remove the music entirely.