Registration for this schedule starts on 12/01/2025 and ends on 05/21/2026
Participants must be 18 years to 120 years old when the program starts.
Faceting II – Advanced Designs
This class will offer advanced designs including pear, oval, and rectangle shapes along with frosted facet designs. Tips and tricks will be discussed. Student interaction regarding issues and solutions will be encouraged. This class will offer experienced faceters an opportunity to discuss problems and broaden their skills.
Students are encouraged to have taken a Faceting I Class and be familiar with machine use, lap care, reading a faceting diagram, dopping and stone transfer. Each student will receive a piece of faceting rough for the first stone, a lint-free cloth, an LED flashlight, a Sharpie pen, a heat sink cloth, a table of subsurface damage depths and other miscellaneous information. The instructor will provide pre-polish and polishing laps for students to use during class. Presentations on Tangent Ratio Scaling and Center Point Angle Method will made. In addition, website resources and the computer program, Gem Cut Studio, will also be discussed. Faceting machines are provided for use by William Holland but a student who has one may bring his/her own machine. Students are strongly encouraged to bring an Optivisor or equivalent magnification device. Each student should be able to complete 1 stone during the class and possibly two or three. Students may bring in their own rough if they so choose but nothing harder than quartz, a 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. Additional rough will be available for purchase.
This is expected to be a fun week learning new skills and collaborating with other experienced faceters.
Lab Fee: $50.00
Est Materials Fee: $10+
Consumables Fee: $15 (applied to WH tuition)
Prerequisite: Faceting I Class or comparable
Dave McGregor
Dave McGregor is an engineer by trade. He enjoyed "gem hunting" for many years and took his first faceting class at the North Carolina State University craft center. He then took additional faceting classes at Wild Acres and William Holland. He purchased an Ultra Tec faceting machine and has faceted numerous varieties of stone designs. He is a member of the US Faceters Guild and hopes to encourage others to learn about faceting.
Please contact William Holland School of Lapidary Arts if you have any questions.