A school for gemcutting. Learn the ancient art of faceting in our studio or yours with our in-person or distance learning courses.
23/08/2026
Congratulations to our latest batch of Faceting Bootcamp graduates and to our intern Ludivine who cut a few stones as well. We had a great couple of weeks together learning to cut stones while the sun ravaged the city with a heat wave. Good luck in all your future Gemcutting endeavors!
22/08/2026
If you haven’t heard, we have just announced a brand new faceting class. Gemstone Recutting and Repair is a one week course that will teach you exactly what the name says; how to recut stones, how to create a diagram for the shape you have on the fly without a paper diagram, how to repair broken stones, how to repolish, and more. It’s an intensive one week class and we have two dates being offered this year. One of them is next week in our Lyon France Campus and the other one is in late October in Brooklyn, New York at Brooklyn Metal Works. Seats are already getting filled, so if you’re interested in learning to recut this year, sign up now!
One of the benefits of learning to cut gemstones in our Faceting Bootcamp is having a teacher to demonstrate the techniques and guide you through all the steps of faceting a gemstone. The result is that in two weeks you have as much knowledge and skill as a year of learning from videos and books. Check out the schedule for our upcoming Faceting Bootcamps at www.facetingapprentice.com
We have one more Faceting Bootcamp with seats available this year. Join us in October at and spend two weeks learning everything you need to know about faceting stones. Sign up at https://www.bkmetalworks.com/faceting-bootcamp
17/07/2026
Congratulations to all our new Faceting Bootcamp graduates. We just finished our first ever two week Faceting Bootcamp Mountain Retreat. This is our standard foundational faceting course, but in a much more interesting setting, up in the Jura Mountains, in the heart and home of French gemcutting. We had a great couple of weeks with this gang, not only cutting stones, but also going to cheese shops, visiting old Gem, cutting factories, and seeing lots and lots of gemcutting history in all the museums around the area. Good luck to you all with all your future faceting adventures
08/07/2026
Our last Faceting Bootcamp is in October of this year in Brooklyn, New York. If you’d like to learn how to facet at a high level before the end of 2026, then sign up now and learn every step including the free hand transfer that you can see here, over the course of two weeks. The class is at Brooklyn Metal Works and you can sign up on their website.
05/07/2026
We had a nice adventure this weekend with our students for the Faceting Bootcamp mountain retreat. We visited two gemcutting museums, a gemcutter mural, and a few cheese shops. Fun and delicious!
28/06/2026
Tomorrow is the first day of class for our new Faceting Bootcamp Mountain Retreat and we our very excited for our students to see this beautiful location. Two weeks of learning to cut gems, while being surrounded by natural beauty, peace and quiet, and hundreds of year of French gemcutting history in the Jura mountains.
24/06/2026
A small note to say that we have one more Faceting Bootcamp in 2026 that isn’t totally full, which is our October class in Brooklyn, New York at Brooklyn Metal Works. We also still have a few seats left in our Beyond Basics faceting workshop in Lyon this August.
We have just posted our complete 2027 calendar for your planning convenience. You can’t sign up for anything yet, but you can at least pencil it in on the calendar, so you can plan your 2027 faceting schedule. We hope to see you in the classroom later this year or next year.
22/06/2026
Next week, we present our first ever Faceting Bootcamp Mountain Retreat in the Jura mountains, so we decided to upgrade our apron game with canvas aprons and leather accents plus our logo 😍