I recently finished one of my long term projects that I had in mind for quite some time before I started. Essentially some ideas I had already after I finished my first self built faceting head (desc... Read more

As in my previous blog post described, the angle limit of my self-made faceting head had to be adjusted manually. Although there is a coarse and fine adjustment it is hard to reproduce formerly set an... Read more

I did a short video to explain the most important features of my home made faceting head: Btw, now it's not only the head, but actually the whole machine that I built myself. It does maybe not look ... Read more

I started faceting stones only about 1 year ago and this I did with a second hand faceting head of the rather cheap kind. It was the Hamag XV Nova (see web for image), with which I started to do my f... Read more

Als Anfänger konzentriert man sich hauptsächlich darauf einmal einen schönen Stein irgendwie fertigzubringen. Dabei ist meist der Blick auf das Ergebnis gerichtet, weniger auf die Zeit, die man dam... Read more