This hexagonal cut gemstone has the top of an emerald cut and a culet. It has a moderate tone level and appears to be eye clean. The bluish green gemstone weighs 2.16 carats.
This gemstone was an experiment in cutting a “hexagonal cut” in a moderately toned, bluish green tourmaline. The shape of the gemstone and its crown are the same as an emerald cut, but the pavilion is angled toward a culet. I does produce a radiating flash that is nice, but I only cut a couple of them. It does require an open c axis to be useful. This gemstone appears to be eye clean with fine crystal. It weighs 2,16 carats.
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This hexagonal cut gemstone has the top of an emerald cut and a culet. It has a moderate tone level and appears to be eye clean. The bluish green gemstone weighs 2.16 carats.
