If ever you've considered learning how to facet gemstones - or perhaps had an unfortunate experience with the craft - then the new Gerald Wykoff Faceting Introductory Bundle may be just the breakthrough you've been awaiting. It is offered here at a deep discount of 20% under the price you'd pay for the individual items (see the tab "Faceting."

This comprehensive kit of faceting items - a quick check will reveal that the discount price is only a small fraction of the going industry costs - is designed to take you from a no-knowledge start to an equipment and talent plateau that will have you faceting gems at a professional level in less time than any other faceting approach. The kit contents, all the faceting work of the lapidary industry's most famous teacher, tutors you in the complete theory and techniques of gem faceting - and then also provides a series of DIY kits and plans so you will have the faceting unit, accessories and other implements needed to facet gems.

Here is a list and short description of all the contents in the Faceting Introductory Bundle:

1. DIY All-Metal Calibrated Jamb Peg Faceting Unit - this kit contains all the parts needed to build Gerald Wykoff's famed and patented Calibrated Jamb Peg faceting unit, the fastest and easiest to learn faceting machine in the industry. The CJP is an improved variation of the jamb peg, the faceting tool of choice among the world's professional facetes for nearly five centuries.

2. DIY Metal Faceting Accessory Kit - every faceter must have special metal dop sticks to accommodate different gem shapes. This kit contains 5 special add-on heads (they can be glued on any 1/4" OD dop stick), plus a 90-degree table dop, plus two metal angle dops (to verify an angle setting) plus a metal transfer block

3. A DIY Metal Peg Making Kit - #1 above contains a 32-gear peg that provides 4-fold symmetry cutting (all the popular cuts) but to cut other symmetries (triangles, kites, pentameters, stars, etc.) you need a peg with another symmetry. You can designate the gear (30, 40 or 48) you want with this kit.

4. Spare Metal Index Gears - you can select the remaining two index gears of the set of four (30, 32, 40, 48) for making your own pegs.

5. CD-ROM entitled "How to Make a Power Platform" - to facet, you must have a power platform and here is a comprehensive tutorial with plans to make a power platform, either hand powered or with an electric motor.

6. CD-ROM entitled "How to Make Your Own Diamond Abrasive Laps" - you can invest a small fortune in expensive diamond laps needed to abrade gem crystals, but Wykoff has come up with a series of options for making your own diamond laps, quickly and inexpensively. The tech guide shows you how and where to obtain materials for lap making.

7. CD-ROM entitled "The Techniques of the Jamb Peg" - here is a comprehensive tutorial on the techniques of jamb pegging plus plans to make your own wood jamb peg and pegs. Most metal CJP owners like this tutorial because it shows how to make different symmetry laps. For jamb peggers who don't want to build their own power platform, this tutorial offers a number of suppliers and inexpensive flat lapping machines that can easily be converted for jamb pegging.

8. CD-ROM entitled "The Techniques of Faceting" - this is a CD version of Wykoff's famous "Master Faceting" text book and provides general instructions in faceting - even diamond cutting.

9. CD-ROM entitled "Video on Faceting" - the graphics and lighting admittedly on this video movie (it's a conversion from analog to digital) aren't all that great, but the information is as good as tomorrow morning. It covers faceting in general but the emphasis is on faceting with a Calibrated Jamb Peg.

10. Gerald Wykoff's famous FacMath PC Software Programs - here are 13 computer programs, written by Gerald Wykoff, that give you valuable control over the math involved in optics and crystallography i.e., light ray characteristics, crown-pavilion angle theory, converting symmetry readings, tangent ratio, design outlines, gears, yield, proportions, inch-to-metric conversions, etc.) You don't need to be a mathematician to use these programs: just tell the computer what you want.

There's a nice free bonus or two, too.

As soon as we are notified by PayPal us that you have ordered the above Bundle, you will receive a thank you note with shipping information - plus two free, attachment ebooks entitled, "Eager to Learn Faceting?" and "How to Handle Gem Faceting Transfers." The Faceting ebook is a super introduction to anyone wanting to know more about faceting. The Faceting Transfer ebook not only shows you how to make transfer jigs (gems are faceted in a 2-step operation so they must be transferred when half-way finished) but also explains in detail the techniques for making open as well as closed transfers, both valuable skills in the faceting arts.

With the Faceters Introductory Kit, you have everything you need to begin a career in gem faceting either for profit or for personal satisfaction. You'll get the training and instructions needed to proceed effectively in the craft and this is complemented by either the actual DIY components that you can assemble quickly and easily as well as plans to make everything else. The only missing element - except for the rough gem crystals is a Power Platform and you get plans for a DIY platform or source recommendations where you can inexpensively buy and modify flat lappers that function just as well.

They are all yours to read, think about and prepare for the faceting challenge while you're waiting for the Faceting Introductory Bundle to arrive. Please know that I make every effort to ship within 12 hours (check my feedback).

If you're interested in looking into the exciting world of gemcutting, this program of instructions could be the key to your gem kingdom.