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First ever Ultra Tec open house! Jan 27-30 Feb 6,7 2024. 10-5

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Look at this stone cutting/drilling technology!! The museum of Jade in San Jose Costa Rica is 5 floors of amazing Jade artifacts! The effort required to make these masterpieces is astounding! If you visit Costa Rica be sure to make time for this museum!

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Cutting a stone from 120 year old Train lantern glass from here in Tucson!

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Fun with my first Portuguese cut!

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3rd stone he cut! My 7 year old just cut this prasiolite in a design by Vargas! What a sparkler!

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USFG Faceting Symposium the 2023 frolic! with 7 different machines running demos daily, some amazing presentations by the biggest names in Faceting! All this followed by the “Hobnob” faceter’s dinner and stone contest! , Feb 2,3,4 2023

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And then there were two!

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Our shipping department sending out another full package V5!


Full package, laps, wax, loupe, gem holder, display boxes, extra dops, and of course a little rough thrown in free to get started! 

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Oh the Joy of unwrapping a new V5!

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Carnelian from New Mexico

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Amethyst prevents drunkenness??

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I love to cut obsidian!

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Tucson, my home.

Tucson is not only my home but it’s where I learned about stones and how to facet. Faceting has been on my list for over two decades. I was intimidated by the seeming complexity and all those numbers!  Now I see that it’s really very simple, and I love learning from my mistakes, which are fairly fre…

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