3.795 carat 10.1 MM round shaped dark green/red Oregon sunstone, excellent cut

Description

Beautiful blue/green color
While I facet a lot of my stones, like this one that I faceted. This is a dark red/green stone that changes color as it is rotated. 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 factor's 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.
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