Artist Talk with Master Gem Engraver Chavdar Chusev

This is one of the most fascinating processes I have ever seen!

That was amazing! It's wonderful to see how these were originally made.

What a wonderful talent and display of simple yet effective ancient technologies. Thank you very much for this film.

WOW! This is gold! This is something I have always wondered about....

this is awesome! i love the technique of using ground stone on soft metal as the grinding wheel. Im sure it embeds itself in the surface of the metal and makes a barrier. ineteresting

This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen

Impressive research and technique. As a beginning jade carver, I will use a few of your techniques with much thanks.

i really really appreciate this, thorough and easy to follow demonstration of the production of these gorgeous gem engravings, ive looked thru lots of papers on the subject but information on this process is lacking, this video made it clear and i have a deep appreciation of these artists and there work. also what you produced was very beautiful!

Amazing demonstration of ancient lapidary!

Truly amazing. Thank you ive wondered for my whole life how ancient people did the intaligo process.

Thanks for putting this together. Very thorough.

What a great video! I love looking at ancient artifacts and I've looked at hundreds of Greek and Roman intaglio gems on various museum websites, but until today, I never looked up how they were made. This was a very informative and interesting video.

THANK YOU FOR THIS! In thos world of mass production, the presenter gives us a reminder of human creativity .
I think its wonderful.

Both beautiful and amazing. Very special results with hand tools.

I love this whole process 👍

ALL I CAN SAY IS FANTASTIC....👍.

Невероятен си Чавдаре. Определено мисля, че древните хора са били много по находчиви и много по изобретателни от нас наследниците. Поздрави от Мадрид.

Amazing videos, I enjoyed so much watching how to create this ancient lathe !

Thank you very much for this fantastic video , very nice art .

GOSTEI MUITO MESMO DESSA SUA AULA AÍ MEU AMIGO. ESSE PROCESSO ANTIGO DE COMO ESCULPIR GEMAS SEM FERRAMENTAS MUITO TECNOLOGICAS . ADOREI FICO MUITO GRATO POR VOCÊ COMPARTILHAR COM A GENTE GRANDE ABRAÇO. ORLANDO DIAS. UBERABA. MG.

Love finding videos like this on RUclips. Very amazing to see how this was done at that point in time.

Thank you so much for sharing. ❤

Amazing technique and control--I've never seen that method before. Very cool and superb work!

I’ve watched your video several times and learn each time. Thanks so much. Loved the roosters too!

Wonderful art and grace ❤

wonderful video! thank you for sharing your knowledge. Definitely appreciate my modern tools!

Awesome to finally see how hardstone was carved before powertools! I couldn’t find much info on this elsewhere.

Very cool this is something I've wanted to see done for some time.

Fascinating! Thank you!

I don't wear jewelry, but if I wanted to, it would definitely be in the style of ancient Greeks and Romans. I like their style of jewelry.

Absolutely amazing, thank you .

Incredible video. Thank you!

The very first dremel was born, amazing process!!👍😎👻🌶️

8:45 is a modern diamond bit. Astonishing none the less.

Awesome 🤩

Oh my god ! You are big artist! Beautiful work…

Excellent!

Beautiful icons! ☦

Great video . Beautiful intaglio , retired jeweler , Canada

Very rare sicret and vintage technics i happy

real master - thanks for sharing

I looove to know, how to do things. Doing them is boring, but knowing, that I could, if I for some odd reason "had to", is sooo cool.

that is just amazing,wow

Fascinating. May I ask a question: which engraving machine do you normally use?

Amazing ❤

Crazy impressive

Where can I study gem carving? Intaglio specifically

What would you say the various grades of naxos stone powder you use in the demonstration would correspond to in terms of grits of emery powder? I've a mind to try this for myself, but I'm not sure what coarse/medium/fine would mean when buying the grit.

What are the best fine polishing methods and compounds out there? I've seen watchmakers use Polywatch for polishing the glass. Lacquer artists use Kiku-mol. Even rubbing bone dust by hand seems to work. Now I learned about this Naxos stuff.. I guess it all depends what one is polishing.
Edit: I guess I'm wondering about the grit of these different compounds. How gritty is Naxos powder vs. toothpaste vs. Deer antler powder etc.

Wow!

Que grande eres

Wow how can you even see with the slurry on thete

nice

A Master

Ok.😊

u have a beautiful mind ......coming from wife kelly...

🤯🤯🤯

Sir namaste i.m Indian farm Jaipur i.m carving master marker all saton Colette feting all Taipei pliz help mi thank

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WOW!. Really like these kinds of videos.