u/stone_crazy

Because batches of 10 are a little over $20 on eBay, and if you want to cut glass for practice why not make it interesting.

I'm a shop steward in a rock & gem club that has faceting machines, but no active faceters in a long time. I finally decided to dive in and get a Facetron into known good working shape and have succeeded with that. So I'm in the process of turning into the club's faceting guy. The only problem is that I'm a total noob. There's a lot of old stuff in the faceting gear. One thing I'm particularly dubious of is this set of laps, one of which is pictured front and back. It's a lucite-looking disc, with a layer of some kind of foam-looking material and a layer of some kind of fabric-looking stuff. In my researches I have encountered nothing like these. There's more than a whole set of them, in 600, 1200, 3K, 14K, and 50K. I think there's a 360 also. Has anybody ever seen any thing like these? They might date from the 1980s.

I'm starting to think that basically all of the laps we've got need to be replaced, and that these things probably should be the first to go.