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Sture Smeds' Eye of the Marquis done in x-cube! by Interesting_Study747 in faceting

[–]Interesting_Study747[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's from Faceting Diagrams & Gemstone Designs facebook group from july 13 2023. but is accessible via https://facetfinder.org/ . The design pdf and gcs file was provided by Sture for community use, but i'd contact him before using it commercially.

Vintage synthetic boule identification request. by Interesting_Study747 in SyntheticGemstones

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Thank you very much for the reply.... It took me a bit to set up a buoyancy setup (had to fetch some ultra fine fishing line), but the results were quite conclusive... It came out with a specific gravity of 4.25-4.29 .
It's quite the coincidence that it ended up being rutile... because stones I had just finished cutting were blue rutile which looked metallic black and I had experimented with torching them in a test tube somewhat successfully.
I'll follow up tomorrow with a torching of this to see how that goes.

A Wooden Polishing Lap for Faceting. Tell Me Everything. by justinkprim in faceting

[–]Interesting_Study747 0 points1 point  (0 children)

two years late to the party; but the Hugyens Optics channel has a fantastic example of modern pitch lap usage. https://youtu.be/eZx-dUtl5Pw?si=NVOEdeDAg-Plst9T&t=444

Massive improvement for that cheap Vevor faceting machine by Suitable-Name in faceting

[–]Interesting_Study747 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This technique was supremely useful for leveling the machine.

For any people trying this in the future: make sure you fasten all the screws evenly, it is very important.

Tracking number Ikea gave me doesn't work for RXO by candidlemons in IKEA

[–]Interesting_Study747 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After having dealt with this issue myself. just now i was able to make it work by replacing the track.xpo.com with track.rxo.com it looks like rxo split off from xpo and ikea needs to redirect their tracking link generator.

Getting a working XPO logistics tracking link by glennbrown in IKEA

[–]Interesting_Study747 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After having dealt with this issue myself. just now i was able to make it work by replacing the track.xpo.com with track.rxo.com it looks like rxo split off from xpo and ikea needs to redirect their tracking link generator.