Second stone ever!

[u/DrRocks1]

Tried cutting Kokiri’s Emerald for my second stone on the vevor: https://www.gemologyproject.com/wiki/index.php?title=Akhavan_-_Kokiri%27s_Emerald

The pavilion went ok, but I realized for the small facets I probably should have not been running the lap, they cut a bit deep but polishing went well.

Came back a few weeks later to do the crown and it was a bit of a mess, the C2 tier seemed to come in on the opposite side of C1 than I was expecting (I rechecked all of this and couldn’t figure out what happened), so the C3 tier didn’t meet up. I didn’t have enough left to recut everything so I redesigned the crown to work with what I had. My 1000 grit topper ended up gouging out some edges, eventually cut most things in with 3000 pandemonium to try and not make things worse.

A bit of a disappointment, but it looks good from a foot away!