Sparkle's notes

Spooner has gem cutting practice tables at SW 2317, 3243

when you cut a gem you can put the example up on the pole so you can see what you are trying to do

LENS CUT:

put gem on table ... turn it around looking for the side that is the smoothest

1. (S) cut to get the front side smooth - may take a couple of cuts (S)

2. (K x2) turn the gem around so you are now looking at the "back" side. Cut (S) the back until it is smooth and the piece is one layer thick

3. Trim (F) the corners - Roptate (L) so you do all four corners

NOTE: every other cut you get trimmed corner instead of a square corner

EYELET: 1. rotate the gem until you get an eye ... sometimes it is hard to see one ... keep turning (U) and cutting (S) all the sides away ... then turn(K) to cut it down to size NOTE: full eye = one slice thicker ... cube with a hole right thru it .. so if you get and eye stop and keep it

LOOKING GLASS:

I choose a side to grind flat

SS K - cut one face flat enough

S K - trim off irregularities

SSSS K - trim back side to one layer thick

SS U trim irregularities

S I trim to length

AIDENN MASK:

rotate KK, Trim SSSSSS

rotate K, rotate O, trim SS

Rotate KK, Trim SS

Rotate KK, trim F

Rotate LL, trim F

Rotate KK, trim F

Rotate U to align with sample (I did not manage to get this one to work)

NOTE 1st Cartouche: Cracotia, ysabeau, pascalito, sharae, ariella, seium : Pacer, dronx, juli, unique, mayanah

PERCEPTION FOOD: 6 cabbage juice, 6 camel milk, 6 grilled fish, 6 grilled onions, 6 toad skin mushrooms, 6 phagrus fish, 6 tilapia fish: 1 dark radish, 1 clingroot, 1 weeping patala, 1 whitebelly, 1 bloodwort, 1 bhillawa, 1 dwarf wild lettuce : 1hr 56 min, str-9, dex 8, end-10, speed-6, con -8 focus 7, percep 14