Faceting Apprentice

11/10/2026

In two weeks, we have our next Gemstone Recutting and Repair workshop at Brooklyn Metal Works.

We still have two seats available so if you’d like to spend a fun week learning to recut, repair, and generally cut stones without a diagram than this class is for you! Experience required, this is not a beginner level class. If you’d like to take your cutting to the next level, this is the easiest and fastest way.

Sign up at https://www.bkmetalworks.com/gemstone-recutting-and-repair

20/09/2026

We’ve still got a few seats left for upcoming Gemstone Recutting and Repolishing class in Brooklyn, New York. If you already have faceting experience and would like to take your cutting to the next level by learning how to transform already cut stones, check out all the details for this 5 day class in the link.

What do you do when a gemstone is chipped, broken, badly proportioned, windowed, poorly polished, or simply not living up to its potential? Gemstone Recutting and Repair is a one week intensive workshop devoted to the skills needed to evaluate, redesign, repair, and recut existing gemstones.Rather t...

30/08/2026

Learning how to do Tallow Top tables in our Gemstone Recutting and Repairing class.

28/08/2026

We just finished our first Gemstone Recutting and Repolishing class here in Lyon and it went great. The students learned so much and had a great time learning how to cut without a diagram, learning how to recut a stone without touching the girdle, and then learning how to reshape a broken stone and creating a new diagram from scratch for it and polishing it to perfection. The stones look beautiful. The students are happy. And now it’s time for a restful weekend. If you’d like to learn how to recut and repolish stones, we have a few seats left in our next class in New York at Brooklyn Metal Works in October. You can find more information at www.facetingapprentice.com.

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!

14/08/2026

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

08/08/2026

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.