.74 carat 5.8 x5.8 MM round shape light red Oregon sunstone, excellent cut

Description

While I facet a lot of my stones, like this one that I faceted. This is a light red with a hint of green. I want to explain my costs on any one stone, for example I go to the mine and find a stone that I purchase from a mine like the Dust Devil, lets say a 40 carat stone, it may cost me from 0 to 0. That 40 carat stone may cut a finished faceted stone from 3 carat to 5 or 6 carats, depending on quality of stone. Then I have thousands of dollars in equipment and generally two days of time sawing, shaping and cutting the facets.
Most facetor will only recover 15 -20% of a stone, unless the stone is near perfect. I've been faceting since 2006 and complete about 50 a year. It takes me from 8 to 16 hours to finish a stone, as
my
goal is to get a mirror shine to each and every facet. Those not familiar with faceting, you first form the stone at 80 grit, then re-due every facet with 600 grit, then 1200 grit, 3000 grit, pre-polish at 8000 grit, and last polish every facet to a mirror finish. Depending on the cut used there could be from 50 to 230 facets as an estimate, or more.
Faceting is very time
consuming and demanding
.
If you consider the training, equipment needed, and the talent required, the amount of money you are paying for a hand faceted stone rewards a facetor generally at about minimum wage. I consider myself as a semi-master facetor as the equipment I have limits my facet meets to within .01 MM and computation at .001. When I hire another facetor to cut a stone the general fee is 5 plus extra for stones over 2 carats. A few of my friends cut me deals. My starting price on this one is well below what my costs are.
Those who make multiple purchases must wait for an invoice, payments made before invoice can not receive refunds for shipping fees.
I have never shipped outside of the USA before 2021, I can not be held responsible for any customs fees charge by other countries.
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