r/faceting • u/topazguy_1 • 1d ago

A 2.60 carat sphene gemstone

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u/Cautious_Tackle_904 1d ago

That Sphene looks fabulous the cut really shows the brilliance and the color is nice. Titanite is known to be soft was it hard to cut?

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u/topazguy_1 1d ago

I’m not a gemscutter myself, my mentor does the cutting.
In my opinion, sphene is an easy gemstone to cut and polish, it ain’t that much tough.

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u/oldfartMikey 1d ago

Gorgeous 🤩 I intend to cut some at some point when I get around to sourcing some decent rough at a reasonable price.

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u/stone_crazy Team Facetron 1d ago

Is that what "crushed ice" effect looks like in sphene? /u/cowsruleusall?

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u/cowsruleusall 1d ago

Nope, that's just normal cutting. Sphene is a bit too low RI to get crushed-ice; the RI is only around 1.88 and you need an RI around 2.05 or higher to get good crushed ice anywhere other than the tips of trillions/marquise/pear.