[Jewelry making - Article 00225] - Re: [Orchid] Primitive Faceting/Lapidary Techniques/Tools?

[M. Clodius]

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    Hello All , Early faceting / stone cutting includes use of "laps"
    similar to potters wheels , later there were different wheels tied
    into water power with power transmitted with leather belts . I
    visited Idar-Oberstein in Germany on my honeymoon it was the
    medeivel capital of stone cutting for much of Europe and is still an
    important center for stone cutting etc.My wife grew up in the area
    and we visited the stone cutting factories of some of her childhood
    friends families .I was blown away  seeing a clean modern  faceting
    factory with rows of automatic preforming and faceting machines and
    ONE man in a corner working at a lap with a wooden Jam Peg . Asking
    the owner about this  he explained that if you were really [ really
    ] good with such equiptment you could out perform [ both
    quantitativly and qualitativly ] all of the fancy automatic
    equiptment .Examining the mans work and seeing the speed with which
    he could facet and polish a gem were amazing . Once again learning
    that it is the skill/hand/eye/mind of the craftsman not the tools
    that creates jewelry . 

Mark
Clodius&Co. Jewelers 

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