It doesn’t matter some weeks are just going to suck...
I've spent all this week sick with a head cold. Getting sick here is part of life with so many people coming and going. It means i lost a week in the gym and fencing. I'll try to go to the gym every day this coming week and see what happens
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I did a bit of research for faceted gems... Seems that in the late 14c. in the low countries and northern France they played with hewing diamonds. taking the natural diamond octahedron crystal, splitting in the middle to produce two pyramid shapes mounted with the point up.
In the 15c. they would go farther by taking the point off and hewing along the edges to produce a simple emerald cut (to use modern terminology) what they called a Hog-back cut.
At the end of the 15c. Lodewyk van Berken of Antwerp invented scaif, thats the diamond dust grinding wheel still used to cut and polish gems. So in the 16c. faceted became standard but with a relative lower facet count compared to todays gems.
The big gem dealer on the far side is now gone, he quite showing up at the end of December. A few of the SCA people here at the time were looking for him and he quite showing up and then they gave his spot to some one else.
Ya the bazaar has been going down hill, the variety of the stuff is less and less and the prices are up and up, they are almost pare with the board walk merchants.
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