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GEMSTONES CUTTING COURSES : Slicing Demo

This is a demo to illustrate what a good slicer is supposed to optain from a rough gemstone.

Rough Material:
- Rubelite from Africa
- 3 large pieces
- We will slice the middle one

Selection of a piece to slice:
Some opaque green tourmaline needs to be removed:
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Oservation of the rough: Look in all directions for the optimization of weight and clarity. <Dowload demo 847KB>

Separating the main parts:
before to slice into small piece. Looking for visibility. (HQ Video)
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Observation before preforming the gemstone

Slicing into pieces:
This is where the cutter is saving or loosing money. (HQ Video)
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Preforming using the slicing machine will also create smaller pieces for calibrated sizes.

preforming starts from the slicing machine

All the pieces cannot end up as nice as this one. Sometimes no shape is coming out very clearly. <Dowload demo 2.98Mo>

Result after slicing this piece of rough, color grading

Final result:
11 stones of a nice size
and many smaller ones forproduction in calibrated sizes

In order to reach this level of expertise a student will need the basic and advanced courses.
And before to get his hands on such valuable material, we suggest a lot of training on smaller and cheaper rough in the quartz familly.

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Manja Thai Co., Ltd,
Manja Thai Co., Ltd.
50/31, Pan Road, Silom,
Bangrak, Bangkok 10500,
Thailand

Tel: +66 2635 0858
Fax: +66 2635 0859

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