Within minutes - not hours - you can be faceting magnificent commercial grade gems of your choice.

What makes a jamb peg so fascinating (and the reason why the world's top professionals have preferred a jamb peg for the last 600 years) is the speed, simplicity and excellent results. Fact is, you can learn to use a jamb peg in about 4 hours (or 4 stones) and cut a finished, high quality gem in 1/3rd the time of an expensive protractor machines.

A protractor machine is an excellent device. But it's expensive, requires a machinist's skill to operate (it's no accident that all of the manufacturers of the big, costly protractor milling type faceting machines are machinists by trade) and demands lengthy and intense concentration over too long a period to cut a gem. With a jamb peg, there is a factual condition: to facet a gemstone, you control and dictate to the jamb peg machine, and with a protractor the machine enslaves you because IT cuts the gem, not you. Your time isn't devoted exclusively to cutting a gem. It's eaten up by the need to set complicated machine controls. Faceting a gemstone with the machines now on the market is a practice in sheer monotony which is why so many potentially good faceters give up on it.

As for the jamb peg, you merely slide into a precut slot the tail of the peg holding the gemstone, set an index gear for the facet you want - and commence cutting. It's really that simple.

The simplicity of Wykoff's Calibrated Jamb Peg took learning one of these machines from 4 years to 4 hours. It's the reason he was given a U. S. patent on his jamb peg - the first patent issued on the jamb peg in 600 years. Now anyone can learn quickly how to facet at a professional level. Make no mistake, though. This metal jamb peg is no toy. It's a professional unit that will exceed quality and quantity output on any protractor machine now on the market.

Many so-called "experienced" faceters will offer you the complaint that with a jamb peg you must "cut and look." Of course, you must do that. And you certainly must do it with the big, expensive machies, too. They can't get any closer - despite their intricate settings - to a close facet match than can the jamb peg. Furthermore, with a jamb peg, to check a facet you lift the peg completely off the machine, go wherever or use whatever light/magnification you want, return the peg to the machine and re-commence faceting. Try that with a complicated protractor machine whose peg is generally mechanically lashed to the unit - and you'll quickly discover why tiresome body and neck contortions play such a prominent role in protractor type faceting.

The Calibrated Jamb Peg kit comes to you ready for easy assembly. Your biggest building requirement will be a tube of 2-part epoxsy steel (to hold the metal parts together). Assembly takes about a half-hour for the average person - and you'll quickly have the

a) peg (it holds the stone and controls indexing);

b) the jamb (a square metal plate that features pre-cut slots for provide angles), and

c) the standpost (the unit that allows you to mount the jamb peg on a power platform. Put together these three items and you're ready to facet.

Please keep in mind that this auction is for the faceting unit only: you'll need to come up with your own power platform to hold the abrasive disks and such. For suggestions and suppliers for power platforms, you might want to obtain Wykoff's "How to Make Your Own Faceting Machine." This multi-media CD-ROM program shows you how to make your own wooden CJP for about $25 (wood models work just as effectively as metal ones although the parts wear out rather quickly under heavy use). The bulk of this disk program, though, pertains to showing you the theory and techniques of jamb pegging. You'll need to know how to jamb peg, because the kit comes with building instructions only.

Note: For individuals who have bought or may think of buying the "How to Make a Calibrated Jamb Peg," know that owning this program puts you well ahead of the faceting game. As mentioned earlier, the CD-ROM program also shows how to make a peg (needed if you want to cut in other symetries such as 30, 48 or 40 index gears) in addition to featuring the theory and techniques of jamb pegging. Again, the assembly kit shows you only how to assemble the jamb peg kit . . not how to facet. If you elect to purchase a supply of index gears, don't order a 32-notch gear because one comes with the CJP kit. You'll need only the 30, 40 and 48 to have a full complement of gears. If you do buy the gear set, order them with the assembly kit and there will be no additional s/h requirement. If PayPal does becomes balky about gear s/h in the same order, put in a penny (.01 cents) for s/h.
CJP Assembly Kit - $129.95 Ea.

Note: If you purchase the all-metal CJP assembly kit you should be aware that the most popular index gear - the 32-notch - comes with the kit. If you want other symmetries, you'd need only obtain a 30, 40 and 48.
Metal Index Gears - $40 set of 4 Gears