Flawless Facets

I wanted to let you all know about the interview that will be occurring on Sunday, the 27th of June at 2:00 PM CST.  I will be talking with Mona Hair who has a weekly jewelery show called The Jewelry Connection.  We will be discussing the art of faceting of colored gemstones.   Mona has not had [...]

I have been hearing a lot of feedback lately on the lack of a one stop shop online for custom cutting and the setting of stones in semi mounts.  Flawless Facets is the one stop shop for these two features.  Not only can you have me design and custom cut a unique one of a [...]

I finished some repair jobs this week on three gemstones.  They gems were a pink topaz, blue sapphire and a purple tourmaline.  The pictures of the repairs are listed below.   The gemstones had a variety of common problems with gemstones such as abraded facets, chipped girdles and windows.  A window is a problem in a gemstone [...]

I just wanted to drop a note to everyone who has given so many compliments on the Mahenge Spinels and the Tanzanian Rhodalite featured in One World Gemstone yesterday.  Your words are motivation to get the rest of the parcel done.  If you are looking for any particular cut please contact me and I can [...]

Sorry for the server being down today.  I had to change a hosting plan due to my old hosting company being purchased.  I was featured in One World Gemstones this month and have been having a lot of questions on what the prices of the stones are.  The prices are listed below.  Contact me if [...]

The last few steps in the cutting process for an oval is to flip the gemstone over, also known as transferring, and then cut and polish the pavilion.  The first step is to remove the dop stick from the machine and gently heat the gemstone to remove it from the dop stick and transfer it [...]

The second step in cutting the oval gemstone is to cut and polish the crown or the top part of the gemstone.  Many faceters cut the pavilion first on a gemstone.  Because I was not trained this way, I do not do this.  The top part of the gemstone is the part that a customer [...]

I am often asked by clients, friends and family about how gemstones are faceted.  I designed this photo pictorial to illustrate to the steps in the gemstone cutting process.  The gemstone I selected for this first pictorial was a 13. 3 piece of rhodalite garnet from Africa.  Due to the shape of the rough gemstone [...]

A lot of you have been asking for new gemstone releases.  The stones are at the photographers and should be added soon.  I have recently cut a large selection of Mahenge pink and red spinels.  These are premium spinels in asscher, Portuguese round, and emerald cuts.  The spinels range in size from two carats to [...]