Crylos

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19200551

Took this the other day a bit before the rain moved in.

Took this the other day a bit before the rain moved in.

This stone was cut by my son using his own design. YAG is a man made crystal used in lasers. Most YAG that cutters get comes from rejected crystal that didn't meet specs.

None of these pictures do it justice as it had almost as much fire as my wife's engagement ring.

Been super busy with life, but finally got back to cutting. This is the second of four chrome diopside stones I'm cutting.

Amazing and intense. One of the best I’ve ever witnessed.

Unfortunately this stone has a fracture and inclusion right at the cutlet.

Nothing I could do, so decided to finish the stone and hope it held together. Here is another view of the pavilion.

I like the color, too bad the light return wasn’t what I was looking for.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11525302

My brother has self published a book about our family’s history. This book has been a work in progress by multiple family members over decades, but it’s finally done!

Below is a copy of the description from the linked website.

If you enjoy WW II history and live stories, you might like this view into the past.

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Louise and Albert is a vivid portrait of life, love, and World War II in 1945 through the letters of Louise (Glasner) Reeves and former United States Congressman and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel Albert Reeves, Jr.

As Albert dealt with his challenges in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, Louise dealt with the rationing challenges and fears of never seeing her husband again while running a household, raising their two children and expecting their third child.

The book also chronicles the family’s efforts to battle corruption in Kansas City and Albert’s time in Congress, representing Missouri’s 5th Congressional District. The time after the war included many challenges for the U.S. and Congressman Reeves - government debt, inflation, foreign aid, food and manufacturing shortages, and lingering government corruption. Corruption, before and after the war, involved election fraud to win seats for machine party candidates. This corruption ended up tainting the Truman presidency.

Included in the book is the dramatic history of the diplomacy, combat, and engineering activities to build the Ledo Road – one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ greatest achievements.

My brother has self published a book about our family’s history. This book has been a work in progress by multiple family members over decades, but it’s finally done!

Below is a copy of the description from the linked website.

If you enjoy WW II history and live stories, you might like this view into the past.

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Louise and Albert is a vivid portrait of life, love, and World War II in 1945 through the letters of Louise (Glasner) Reeves and former United States Congressman and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lieutenant Colonel Albert Reeves, Jr. ​ As Albert dealt with his challenges in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, Louise dealt with the rationing challenges and fears of never seeing her husband again while running a household, raising their two children and expecting their third child. ​ The book also chronicles the family’s efforts to battle corruption in Kansas City and Albert’s time in Congress, representing Missouri’s 5th Congressional District. The time after the war included many challenges for the U.S. and Congressman Reeves - government debt, inflation, foreign aid, food and manufacturing shortages, and lingering government corruption. Corruption, before and after the war, involved election fraud to win seats for machine party candidates. This corruption ended up tainting the Truman presidency. ​ Included in the book is the dramatic history of the diplomacy, combat, and engineering activities to build the Ledo Road – one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ greatest achievements.

This is one of the most perfect cuts I've managed. The meet points are all as perfect as I could get, as well as the polish. I chose a more standard round cut than what my son designed as I wanted to lighten the stone more due to the overall color saturation of the material.

I'm going to cut a second calibrated to match, and get them set for my wife.

My son has really started to get into faceting. He bought a boule of hydrothermal emerald(man made) as he wanted to cut a design he made specific to emerald.

He sliced the emerald in half and gave me one half while he cut his up into the sizes he was going to facet.

I was mostly hands off with this and only really helped out when his stone popped off the dop. He did a great job!