Gemstone Faceting One-Day Workshop
Faceting is the art and skill of taking a rough piece of gemstone and creating a stone with flat planes (facets) suitable for jewelry. Learn to use a Raytech Shaw faceting machine to grind and polish precision facets. You’ll proceed step-by-step to the completion of a simple faceted masterpiece. Beautiful colored glass is the perfect material to ensure student success in this one-day workshop. Your creations will sparkle as if they’re gems, while you’ll work with glass. Brian will show you lots of tips and tricks learned over his years as a professional stonecutter, to help make your introduction to faceting a sparkling success. You’ll love the small class size and quality equipment.
Sawtooth thanks the Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club for their establishment of a scholarship to support students wishing to attend courses in lapidary arts at Sawtooth. The Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club (Paul Burton and Dick Hartz) Lapidary Arts Scholarship is now available. Interested students should apply using the online form here.
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