My Story, by Laurie Hall – Early in September, I received an email with a scanned image of an article from the April issue of the Thumblicker newsletter. The article was called Buying a Faceting Machine? What Machine? And it was a review of various faceting machines – written by …
“The Crystal King” The world’s largest Brilliant Faceted Gem? For two years I searched for a crystal large enough and clear enough from which I could facet a very large stone. Friends who travelled to overseas countries were asked to be on the lookout for me. One of these friends …
Alex’s story below was published to the lapidary world way back in 1993, and until today, Alex’s remarkable ability to hand-cut faceted stones remains something very unique to him. In fact, watching Alex faceting was my first introduction to faceting, I was 12 years old at the time! The Victorian …
