WHEN? THURSDAY FEB 2 ▪ FRIDAY FEB 3 ▪ SATURDAY FEB 4
WHERE: OLD PUEBLO LAPIDARY CLUB
Address: 3119 NORTH DALE AVE ▪ TUCSON
Organized by the USFG
The event used to be called the FACETERS’ FROLIC – and then the 'let’s-get-serious folks' got in charge and renamed it TUCSON FACETING SYMPOSIUM – offering serious lectures and demonstrations about gem faceting – stuff you want to learn..although …smiling and frolicking allowed!
Of special interest to you ULTRA TEC folks…
SEE ULTRA TEC EQUIPMENT - A show table will be set up – every day all day – tended by Dave Smith (Faceters Paradise) – showing our faceting machines.
▪ Faceting Class – Interested? A two-day class is being offered – and you need to sign up in advance. Don’t dawdle. – go on line and see USFG Faceting Symposium 2022 - find the details of signing up. Teaching will be faceters Tom Mitchell and Dave Richardson. Learning will be you. SOLD OUT...
▪ Meet people – make friends. Are you already a member of the ULTRA TEC family? The Symposium is a chance to meet some “cousins” - All of them nice – many of them faceting experts.
LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS each day...
THURSDAY, FEB 2
10:00 am
Dopping demos, dopping blues?
11:00 am
Lisa Elser:
How cut affects value
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Scott Sucher- The art of grinding and polishing.
Feb 2, 1:00pm -3:00pm
Machine Demos!
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Justin Prim: Demo of gemstone repair
4:30- Justin’s new movie!
FRIDAY, FEB 3
10:00 am
Roger Dery: Dopping workshop, bring yours or use one of his fixtures.
11:00am - 12:30pm
Machine demos
1:00 pm
Peter Torraca : Analyzing rough, what tools do you really need?
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Machine demos
3:00pm
Clemens Schwarzinger: Heating and cutting Tanzanite.
Feb 3, 4:00 pm
Arya Akhavan: Faceting diagram difficulty.
Feb 3, Nite-6pm-
Frank Schaffer: Mining and procuring Gem material in Taita Taveta region of Kenya
SATURDAY, FEB 4
10:00am
Dopping 101, to glue or not to glue, that is the question!
11:00 am-2:30pm
Machine demos all over the room, a chance to buy rough
3:00 pm
Jonathon Rolfe/livestream
A lowbrow treatise on polishing.
4:00 pm-Our finale!
Victor Tuzlukov:
World Heritage collection. (Talk and display of the collection, you will be truly amazed)
- final day followed by OPLC Faceters Hob Nob dinner and stone competition.
Our Daily teachers/demonstrators include:
Max Smith-
Daily-Hand piece demos, using a cam to cut cabs, hand piece production.
Stewart Wilson-
Daily-Fantasy Demos, let’s get started! Concave cuts make a brilliant pop right up!
Dave Richardson:
Teaching Faceting Feb 1,2
Tom Mitchell:
Teaching Faceting Feb 1,2
Dennis Anderson:
Feb 2,3,4
Dopping and coaching cutters.
Machine Demos about every hour between talks.
Great door prizes!!
More details... contact
David Smith
Faceters Paradise
USFG Board member/
Symposium coordinator
Contact (TEXTS PLEASE) at: 1-520-907-5527
