13.445 carat clear pear shaped Oregon sunstone, stones this size are to find

Description

While I facet a lot of my stones, this one was faceted by an other facetor. This is a clear stone with maybe a hint of color. Clear stones are the common color of Oregon Sunstones, they vary from white to a yellow straw appearance.
This stone is rare because of size. Most factor's only recover 15 -20% of a stone, unless the stone is near perfect. I've been faceting since 2006 and complete about 50 a year. It takes me from 8 to 16 hours to finish a stone, as my goal is to get a mirror shine to each facet. Those not familiar with faceting, you first form the stone at 80 grit, then 600, 1200, 3000, pre-polish at 8000, and last polish. Depending on the cut used  there are from 50 to 230 facets as an estimate.
Faceting is very time
consuming and demanding
.
If you consider the training, equipment needed, and the talent required, the amount of money you are paying for a hand faceted stone rewards a facetor generally at about minimum wage. I consider myself as a semi-master facetor as the equipment I have limits my facet meets to within .01 MM and computation at .001. When I hire another facetor to cut a stone the general fee is 5 plus extra for stones over 2 carats. A few of my friends cut me deals. I'm selling this one with a starting price of what it cost me.
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