Twelve Easy Gemstone Faceting Designs: A guide for the beginner Gemcutter

Good beginner book

Interesting

Came in perfect condition, facets are indeed easier than most of what is available online for beginners. Includes sections to make notes after each diagram and includes a chart to show the refractive index and critical angles of several gemstones

Good factual book

Great easy to follow beginners guide to Faceting gems.

If you are starting out in faceting this book if very nice. It starts with easier faceting patterns and works it's way up to more complex patterns. The illustrations are clear and reflect the current state of the art. It's not meant to be an instruction book but to help you advance along a well thought out path from easy to more difficult cuts with instructions from some other source. I think you can find most of the best instructions on the internet now.

Great book with designs to start faceting. Pretty simple and easy designs to get started with. I started with zero experience and with this book and a couple YouTube videos and I have made some faceted stones that look great.

For a beginner with no experience this is great and easy to understand