Gemstones Cutting Machines, Consulting and Training, Rough & cut Gemstones Supply



Gemstones Cutting Machines, Consulting and Training, Rough & cut Gemstones Supply


Gemstone Cutting Machines, Lapidary Courses, Training courses and Consulting for the optimization of cutting factories

WEIGHT Calculation Formulas


Quadrature
Jewelry Manufacturing
Thailand.
( French - English )


gem cutting lab

Gems Cutting Lab

 

Download our brochure:
GCL-Brochure.pdf (450Kb)



LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES:
BEGINNERS and ADVANCED
Slicing, Pre-forming, Faceting, Polishing.
Calibrated Sizes, Fancy cut, concave cutting (Millennium cutting Machine)


CONSULTING:
Setup of new gemstones Cutting Factories (complete solution)
Optimization of existing Factories:


GEMSTONES CUTTING MACHINES:
- Slicing machines, Pre-forming machines,
- Industrial Index Cutting Machines
- Millennium Cutting machines (concave cut)

 

 Learn ...

  How to look...
Gemstones slicing operation starts with observation
 How to slice... Gemstone slicing
Gemstone preforming stage Gemstone preforming stage
 And get the best out of it...

 



LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES: BEGINNERS
Session: 3.000 THB
Full package (6 weeks program) 80.000 THB

Slicing

- Rough observation and classification
- Localisation of inclusions
- Weight Optimization, minimize material losses
- Cleavage and hardness
- Colors, pleochroism
- Slicing methods in a production

6 days Training
1h30 per session

9 am - 10.30 am
Preforming - Sizing
- Weight Optimization
- Standart Shapes
6 days Training
1h30 per session

9 am - 10.30 am
Index Machine
Faceting
- Introduction to Index Cutting
- Faceting standart shapes
- Speeds and angles for main varieties
- Color, hardness
- Cleavage
6 days Training
1h30 per session

9 am - 10.30 am
Index Machine
Polishing
- Introduction to Index Polishing
- Polishing standart shapes
- Speeds and angles for main varieties
- Symmetry and facet jonction
6 days Training
1h30 per session

9 am - 10.30 am
Introduction to
Calibrating Techniques

- Slicing and pre-forming using calibrating machine

6 days Training
1h30 per session

9 am - 10.30 am

Rough Quartz material is for free, other rough materails can be supplied by GCL , please contact us.

 

LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES: INTERMEDIATE
Full package (6 weeks program) 80.000 THB

A la carte: 3.000 THB

Slicing

- Advanced Course

6 days Training
1h30 per session

11 am - 12.30 am
Pre-forming - Advanced Course
6 days Training
1h30 per session

11 am - 12.30 am
Index Cutting Machine
Faceting
- Advanced Course
- Standard Shapes
- Specialization for Specific Varieties
6 days Training
1h30 per session

11 am - 12.30 am
Index Cutting Machine
Polishing

- Advanced Course
- Standard Shapes
- Specialization for Specific Varieties

6 days Training
1h30 per session

11 am - 12.30 am
Calibrated sizes Training

- Advanced Course
- Standard Shapes

6 days Training
1h30 per session

11 am - 12.30 am

 

Millenium
cut

with

Millenium
index
cutting
Machine
Gemstone slicing

Example of
kunzite, very
difficult sone
.

(click here)

Gemstone slicing
Gemstone preforming stage

 


LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES: Fancy shapes, Fancy Faceting:
For GCL - Intermediate Students:
Course: 40.000 THB
, Extra Session: 2.000 THB
For external Students:
Course: 60.000 THB
, Extra Session: 3.000 THB


Index Cutting Machine
Fancy Shapes Faceting
- Fancy Shapes, Fancy Faceting using Index Machine
- Specific Varieties specialization
- Learn a few Fancy designs and styles to combine

10 days Training
1h30 per session
13.30 pm - 15 pm

Index Cutting Machine
Fancy Shapes Polishing
- Fancy Shapes, Fancy Faceting using concave cutting techniques
- Specific Varieties specialization
- Learn a few Fancy designs and styles to combine
10 days Training
1h30 per session
13.30 pm - 15 pm


LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES: Concave Cutting Course
Beginer Course 32.000 THB

Intermediate Course 32.000 THB
Extra Session: 3.000 THB

Index Millennium Machine
Concave Faceting
- Fancy Shapes, Fancy Faceting using concave cutting techniques
- Specific Varieties specialization
6 days Training
1h30 per session
9 am - 10.30 am
Index Millennium Machine
Concave Polishing
- Fancy Shapes, Fancy Faceting using concave cutting techniques
- Specific Varieties specialization
6 days Training
1h30 per session
9 am - 10.30 am


LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES:
Advanced Courses
For Factories, please see our Consulting Section.
- We will give a quotation case by case depending which area the student wish to improve.
- Usually a 10 days intense training, 3 hours a day.
- Students who already have basic knowledge in lapidary can start with the intermediate courses.
- Our gemstones cutting school is teaching specific methods using index cutting machines and it is beter for cutters to start with the intermediate courses.


LAPIDARY TRAINING COURSES:
Heat Treatment Course
Ask for a quotation depending on treatment process, varieties, etc.
The gemstones cutting school can provide trainings for the following gemstones treamtments:
Citrine, Aquamarine, Apatite, Morganite, Tourmaline family, Paraiba, Beryl, Rubelite, Kunzite.
- Vacuum Heat Treatment for highly fissured Gemstones.
- Vacuum Oil stabilisation treatment



 

 

CONSULTING: Service to Cutting Factories and worshops

1. Setup of new gemstones Cutting Factories (complete solution)
2. Optimization of existing Factories

- Staff upgrade: Training for cutters and head of team
- Machinery upgrade
- Improve cutting for specific gemstone varieties.
- Access to treatments

BUYING TRIP, INTRODUCTION TO MINES IN BRAZIL:

We have very close connections with more than 50 mines where we can bring buyers from interested factories.

- Our customers will be able to go on a buying trip with our specialist and buy at very good prices, in a secured environment.
- Our local
team in Brazil will be waiting at the airport and will have organized the meetings in advance to make sure you can get the goods you are looking for.
- After a couple of trips with our ambassador, our customers will be ready to go by themselves to the mines they already visited with us and enjoy special prices.


 

 

GEMSTONES CUTTING MACHINES:

- Slicing machines, Preforming machines,
- Industrial Index Cutting machines, Millemium Cut Index machines (concave cut)
- High Pressure Oil Filling machines


 

Gems Cutting Lab Head Quarters (Partners)

Mr Yannick Mandaba (profile)
GCL Managing Director

Mr Yannick Mandaba, has been working in this field for 10 years. He is a French/Centrafrican gemologist graduated from HRD-Antwerp, Belgium and Nantes University in France (D.U.G.).

After some experience as a Marketing Manager in the cutting industry in Bangkok, Mr. Mandaba finally started his own company in Custom Jewelry Manufacturing. Starting from unique pieces using exceptional colored stones and diamonds, he extended his activity to producing lines of Jewelry for creators and Brands, and this is where started this collaboration with Mr. Carlos Gomez Leal in the manufacturing of custom calibrated gemstones that needed to be cut especially to fit into settings produced in series by casting methods.

We decided to open the “Gems Cutting Lab" in 2008.
Mr. Mandaba loves teaching and discovered this vocation while teaching Gemology at G.H.I. Laboratory in Bangkok in 2007. His function in GCL is that of an administrator, but he teaches some gemological bases to students who are starting straight with gems cutting without any gemological background.

Mr Carlos Gomez Léal (profile),
GCL Courses Director
Master Cutter, and Instructor himself, designer of optimized cutting machines

Mr. Carlos Gomez Leal, was born in a mining area in Brazil and knows specific cutting techniques for many gemstones varieties. With more than 15 years of experience in gemstone cutting, he is able to get the best productivity and quality from a group of workers equipped with Index cutting machines. Also Brazil is one of the countries producing the widest range of gemstones varieties in the world, which gave him the opportunity to learn all the gemstones that this huge land could bring before his eyes.

His father gave him a kind of knowledge that is really a plus in market places like Thailand, India or China.

Our first targets are to teach how to obtain productivity with quality, and teach the elementary gestures that can easily reduce material losses. (GCL Consultant, services for gemstones cutting factories and workshops).


Ms. Wadeekanya Soonthornsingha
GCL Direction Assistant, Public Relations
Graduated from Design and Arts College of New Zealand.

Graduated from Design and Arts College of New Zealand, Ms W. Soonthornsingha has a solid experience in Event Organizing business where she has been in a production team designing stages for concerts, political meetings, banks inauguration or even Royal Ceremonies in Thailand. She is helping in any field requiring PR representation or design, from machines development, to web design or jewelry-design QC.


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

Manja-Thai Co., Ltd. is member of the Thai Gems and Jewelry Trade Association (TGJTA)

 

 

USESEFUL LINKS

Laboratories & schools Forums & Networks Knowledge Associations
www.gemnantes.fr (D.U.G. France) www.gemologyonline.com/ www.fieldgemology.com/ www.crg-dug.fr/
www.gubelinlab.com (GUBELIN) www.pricescope.com www.mindat.org www.gemstone.org (ICA)
www.aigslaboratory.com (A.I.G.S.) www.geminterest.com http://webmineral.com www.agta.org (AGTA)
www.aigsthailand.com
http://polygon.net/ www.themelis.com/ www.dgemg.com/ (D-Gem-G)
www.gia.edu (GIA) www.ganoksin.com www.diamondse.info/ www.thaigemjewelry.or.th (TGJTA)
www.gemresearch.ch (GRS)   www.ruby-sapphire.com Others
www.ssef.ch (SSEF)   www.swalagemtraders.com http://gemme.la.rca.free.fr (Profile)
www.hrd.be (HRD)    

Gemstones from a Gemologist

www.igiworldwide.com (IGI)      

 

 

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