1The New Mexico Facetor, November/December, 2003

The Official Newsletter of the New Mexico Faceters Guild

November/December 2003

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TheNew Mexico Faceters Guild

Guild Officers 2004-2005

President: Dylan HoutmanVice President/Programs: Ernie Hawes

Secretary/Treasurer: Bill and Ina SwantnerGuild Gemologist: Edna AnthonyGuild Mineralogist: Paul Hlava

Workshop Chairman: Ernie Hawes

Newsletter Editors:Carsten Brandt

Newsletter Production:Wild Rice PressP.O. Box 1355

Cedar Crest, NM 87008

(505) 286-2094

Purpose of the Guild: The purpose of the NewMexico Faceters Guild is to bring together personswho are interested in faceting or faceted stones. Wepromote the art and science of faceting and providea means of education and improvement in facetingskills. Finally, we provide a means of communicationbetween those persons involved in or interested infaceting as a hobby.

Guild Membership: Dues are $20.00 per calendaryear (January through December) for newsletterissues sent by e-mail. Hard copies of newsletter issuessent by US mail are $30. Please see the membershipapplication/renewal form on the last page of thenewsletter.

Meetings: The Guild meets now on the secondMonday of odd numbered months at 7:00 p.m. at theNew Mexico Museum of Natural History, 1801Mountain Road N.W., Albuquerque, NM. Workshopsare generally held in even-numbered months. Date,time, and place are given in newsletter. Also, anychange in guild meeting times or dates will be listedin the newsletter.

The New Mexico Facetor is copyrighted © 2003 byThe New Mexico Faceters Guild. Permission to copyor reproduce material originating in this newsletter isfreely given so long as credit is given the author andthe source. Authors retain all reprint rights and/orcopyrights to their articles. Newsletters will beexchanged with other guilds at no cost.

The next meeting of the NewMexico Faceters Guild will beJanuary 12, 2004.

NMFG

Show and Tell

A 12 mm Rutilated Quartz byCarsten Brandt, cut in Merril O.Murphy’s Compass Card Cut.

Ernie Hawes cut this Am-ethyst in his Portugese Cush-ion Triangle design, whichwas recently pictured in theLapidary Journal.. The stoneis set in a design by Steve andNancy Attaway.

Nancy Attaway faceted a suite of gorgeous Tsavorite Garnets.A triangular and two round stones are shown above, the fullsuite can be admired on the cover of this issue.

Four stones byDylan Houtman:A 6.71ct Emerald from the UralMountains, a marquise Danburiteand 2 round Spessartite Garnets next to a piece of garnet rough.

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The New Mexico Facetor

Vol u m e 2 3 , N o . 6 , November/December, 2003

The Prez Sez:

by Dylan HoutmanHello! As the new President of the New Mexico Faceters

Guild, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is DylanHoutman, I am 47 years old, and I have been faceting a littlemore than three years. The basics of faceting came easily to me,but the help of everyone in the Guild has honed my abilities andmade faceting a wonderful addition to my life. I enjoy cutting awide range of materials, from sapphire to celestite, and seem togravitate toward the ones with perfect cleavage. I also prefer todesign my own cuts. I have no higher education and very littleknowledge of crystals or gemology, nor am I as well traveled orspoken as my predecessors. I do love to learn and facet, though!I would like to focus my tenure as Guild President upon helpingother beginning facetors to cut on their own. I believe everyoneinterested in faceting will enjoy it more if they can sit down andturn a piece of rough into a cut gemstone on their own. Anyoneinterested in enlisting my assistance, please feel free to contactme. I have weekends free and am more than willing to comeand help!

I recently purchased an unusual rock, Triphylite LiFePO4.It has a Mohs’ hardness of about 4 and a refractive index ofaround 1.68. A 42-degree angle seemed to work on the pavilion.Under incandescent, it is brown with a touch of gray, blue-grayin fluorescent lighting, and a brilliant green under actinicfluorescent lights. I polished it with a 0.5 micron diamond ultra-lap, which seemed to work fairly well, except that the materialseemed plastic. It looked like it was piling up at the trailingedge of the facet, even with very light pressure. I am cuttinganother at the writing of this Pres Sez column, with the intentionof using a lead-tin lap with Linde-A. Considering the good,excellent, and perfect cleavage, depending upon the orientationof the crystal axis, this stone seems to cut fairly well. Good luckto you, should you choose to give this one a go.

Happy faceting,Dylan.

IIn This Issue:The Prez Sez by Dylan Houtman.........3Minutes of the NMFG Meeting.............4Program Speaker.......................................5In the News................................................6Faceting Desings..................................7NMFG Chrismas Party and Workshop......9Facet Designer’s Workshop.....................13Emails................................................13Membership Application...........................14

New Mexico FacetersGuild Official WebsiteWe invite everyone to visit our website at:www.attawaygems.com/NMFG for inter-esting and informative articles on gem-stones and faceting techniques.

NMFG President Dylan Houtman

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Minutes of the NMFG Meeting

November 13, 2003

by Nancy L. Attaway

Vice-President/Programs Paul Hlava pre-sided over the meeting, since President Scott Wil-son was out of town. Paul called the meeting to or-der at 7:15 p.m. and welcomed all members andguests. This particular meeting combined membersof the New Mexico Faceters Guild with members ofthe Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club for all tohear tonight’s guest speaker.

Old BusinessElections were held during tonight’s meeting.

The proposed Slate of Officers, selected during theSeptember meeting and published in the last issueof the New Mexico Facetor, were unanimously ap-proved by vote.

Dylan Houtman was elected Guild President.Ernie Hawes is now Vice President/Programs.Ina Swantner remains Guild Treasurer.Guild Secretary is now Bill Swantner.Carsten Brandt will now be Newsletter Editor.Scott Wilson will serve as Guild Librarian.Edna Anthony remains Guild Gemologist.Paul Hlava remains as Guild Mineralogist.Congratulations to our new Guild Officers!

New BusinessPaul Hlava said that membership dues were due.Paul Hlava announced the change regarding

our meeting nights that the Museum has enacted.Beginning in 2004, all groups that hold their meet-ings at the Museum of Natural History will meet ona Monday night. So, the New Mexico Faceters Guildwill meet on the second Monday of odd-numberedmonths.

Our meeting dates for 2004 include: January12; March 8; May 10; July 12; September 13; andNovember 8.

Please note these new date changes and markthem on your calendars. Please ignore the meetingdates that were published in the September/Octo-ber, 2003 issue.

Show and TellThe Show and Tell Case tonight held many

lovely stones faceted by Guild members. Modera-tor, Steve Attaway used the museum’s video andtelevision equipment to show the gemstones to theaudience.

Dylan Houtman displayed twenty gemstonesthat he faceted. He showed five bright orange spes-sartite garnets and cut one of those gems in a modi-fied Portuguese cut with 122 facets. Dylan showedan impressive large 6.71-carat emerald cut emeraldfrom the Ural Mountains of Russia. Dylan showedtwo danburites, one a large oval and the other a largemarquise with pink tones. He polished the danburiteson a tin/lead lap with linde A. Dylan also showed adeep red triangular Mexican opal and a lovely cush-ion cut triangular kunzite.

He presented a mizzonite, a princess cutmoonstone with a blue sheen, and an awesome deeppink oval morganite; also seven tanzanites, one alarge emerald cut, that he had heat-treated himself.

Carsten Brandt displayed a MexicanBytownite plagioclase feldspar in a hexagonal minibarion cut, and a large round rutilated quartz that hefaceted in Merrill O. Murphy’s “Compass Card” cut.

Ernie Hawes displayed a gorgeous amethystthat he faceted in his Portuguese cushion cut trian-gular design. Ernie’s gem and original design werefeatured in the December, 2003 issue of LapidaryJournal.

Nancy Attaway displayed eleven tsavorite gar-nets that she faceted: a 7.5mm triangle, a 6.5mm tri-angle, an 8.3x6.25mm kite, a 10x7mm pearshape,two 6mm twelve-sided round, a 5.5mm twelve-sidedround, a 7.75x5.5mm eye-shaped marquise, a5x5mm square barion, a 4.75x4.75mm square barion,and a 4x4mm square barion. She also faceted twoAfrican sapphires: a 9.5x7mm pearshape and a7x7mm square barion.

Two Albuquerque Gem and Mineral Club mem-

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bers displayed some mineral specimens of interest.Wanda Schwartz showed two chunks of mahoganyobsidian from Turkey that she recently collected,along with several examples of sterling silver jew-elry from Turkey set with black jet. Paul Hlava re-marked that iron had colored the obsidian. Chan-dler Jones showed specimens of albertite, a hydro-carbon, from Albert County, New Brunswick in NovaScotia that he had collected.

RefreshmentsHerb and Maria Traulsen and Nancy Attaway

brought refreshments to the September meeting.Gourmet coffee was served. Thank you very much.Paul Hlava and Nancy Attaway volunteered tobring refreshments to the meeting in January, 2004.

Future ProgramsPaul Hlava will speak during the January, 2004

meeting on “Synthetic Gemstones”. Paul’s talk willinclude beryllium diffusion treatment of sapphiresand an update on the new synthetic yellow diamonds.

Guild member, Elaine Weisman will speak atthe March, 2004 meeting on the “History of Jew-elry and Jewelry Design”. Elaine’s presentation willcover the last one hundred-plus years and will beaccompanied by many slides of interesting and beau-tiful jewelry that depict the various styles of certaintime periods.

Program Speakerby Nancy Attaway

Jack Thompson, a noted speaker fromColorado Springs, Colorado, talked about “ColoradoTopaz”. Jack Thompson has long been associatedwith the Denver Museum of Nature and Science andis known for his studies of Colorado gems andminerals. He discussed the several sites known fortopaz and included interesting historical slides ofcollectors from the past.

Jack defined topaz as an “aluminum silicate

fluoride hydroxide with chromium.” Jack begandescribing the Colorado topaz localities bydiscussing the Pikes Peak batholith. Colorless topazcrystals and some fine blue topaz crystals were foundin granite rocks of these later intrusives.

Jack said that topaz formed also in pegmatites(especially those with tin), in high temperature quartzveins, and in cavities of both granite and rhyolite.Topaz was formed by fluorine-bearing vapors fromthe last stages of the solidification of siliceousigneous rocks. Topaz is also found in some localitiesas rolled pebbles in stream sands.

Jack continued by describing the topaz fromStove Mountain and Bear Creek Canyon. Topaz fromthese localities formed as radiation groups, wheretopaz crystals exhibit a fanned arrangement of crystalsprays. He said that the iron-stained topaz wasusually included.

Jack explained that collecting topaz from theSpecimen Rock and Sentinel Rock localitiesinvolved a very steep hike that began at 7,000 feetelevation and climbed to 9,000 feet in two miles.Jack remarked that doubly-terminated topaz crystalshad been unearthed from the Specimen Rock locality,where the digging areas were open pockets in therock.

Jack related that topaz was first found inColorado at the Crystal Park locality in 1880. Hementioned that Ed Oves, a noted old-time collectorof the southwest, first located topaz at Crystal Fallsin Crystal Park. Jack stated that the topaz fromCrystal Park also occurred with amazonite, wheresome crystal faces exhibited solution etching. Topazalso occurred with smoky quartz at this locality.

Jack described the Glenn Cove topaz localityon Pikes Peak as a hole in the wall about 130 feetup, where topaz crystals formed in the cavities ofthe cliff face. The collectors back then used (old-time) mountain climbing/rock climbing gear toaccess the location.

Jack said that topaz occurred there with greenmicrocline. A photographer taking pictures ofwildflowers at Glenn Cove discovered topaz therewhen he noticed many interesting crystals on theground. Jack remarked that the topaz crystals foundon the ground were clear, while the topaz crystals in

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the pockets were blue. He related that sunlight hadchanged the color.

Jack said the topaz from the Lake George RingDike locality also occurred with amazonite andsmoky quartz. He described the area there as aweathered pegmatite with quartz rings. Jack said thattopaz from the Lake George Ring Dike also occurredas bi-colored and exhibited selective etching on someof the crystal faces. Jack stated that the Spruce Grovelocality in the Tarryall Mountains is the most famousand prolific topaz locality in Colorado. There, thegranite rock is an intrusive with red skin ironstain,and topaz formed in myrolitic cavities. Some topazhas hematite inclusions.

Jack described the Pilot Peak locality as an areawith giant granite boulders, another red skin area.The topaz crystals from there occur as water-wornspecinens.

Jack said that some crystal sprays have beenfound there, along with sprays of topaz and smokyquartz. Micro topaz crystals on quartz crystals havealso been unearthed from that locality, along withgemmy blue topaz crystals and gemmy bi-coloredtopaz crystals.

Jack remarked that quartz stringers wereindicators for the topaz from Wigwam Creek, andthat topaz with elbaite micro-crystals were foundthere. Jack described the Rampart Range Road topazlocality near Devil’s Head as a potassic intrusive.He said that the Lone Rock pluton was separate fromthe Pike’s Peak granite.

The New Mexico Faceters Guild thanks JackThompson for his interesting talk on Colorado topaz.We all enjoyed his slides of crystal collectors of yearspast at Colorado’s topaz localities. Please note thatmany topaz collecting areas operate under claims.

In the News

Tanzania Halts the Export of Gem

Rough

Source: Colored Stone November/December, 2003Tanzania will completely ban the export of

rough tanzanite by the end of 2005. The Tanzanian

Government had already stated that it would ban theexport of gem rough on July 1, 2003 but will delayimplementing it until 2005. The ban will eliminate a$250 million per year cutting industry in India, whichimports more than 50% of rough tanzanite, mostlysmuggled from Kenya. The Tanzanian Mining andTrading Act of 2003 seeks to establish a governmentinstitution responsible for the control and monitoringof the mining, cutting, polishing, and export of allTanzanian gemstones.

New Blue Sapphire EnhancementSources: JCK December, 2003 and ProfessionalJeweler December, 2003

AGTA’s Gemological Testing Center has notedthat some blue sapphires from Sri Lanka showindications of a new treatment. Gemological testingrevealed indications of heating and the presence ofa pale blue to near colorless layer that closely followsthe girdle outline.

Some sapphires showed a much deeper rim oflight blue surrounding a deep blue core. The interfacebetween the core and the rim is undulating anddelineated by a white line. These characteristics areobserved when the sapphires are viewed immersedin methylene iodide and illuminated through adiffused light source. Similar characteristics havebeen seen in two rubies. The stones treated by thisnew process show a distinctive colorless rim thatpenetrates well into the gem. SIMS analysis so farhas not revealed the presence of beryllium. Berylliumlattice-diffusion treatment can cause color changesin some sapphires. AGTA’s Gemological TestingCenter does not know exactly what the new treatmentinvolves or how it changes the appearance ofsapphires.

New Synthetic Diamonds from Korea

Source: Professional Jeweler December, 2003Iljin, a South Korean cable manufacturer, now

produces synthetic HPHT treated natural gemdiamonds and industrial diamonds. Iljin’s Nouvbrand diamonds come in yellow, orange, light brown,and neon green.

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The Trenchant Triangle By Nancy Attaway Angles for R.I. = 1.730

52 + 6 girdles = 58 facets

3-fold, mirror-image symmetry

96 index

L/W = 1.155 T/W = 0.645 U/W = 0.559

P/W = 0.410 C/W = 0.173

Vol./W³ = 0.230

Average Brightness: COS = 48.1 % ISO = 67.9 %

PAVILION

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g2 90.00° 16-48-80

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2 43.30° 16-48-80

3 40.81° 05-27-37-59-69-91

4 39.82° 02-30-34-62-66-94

5 39.00° 03-29-35-61-67-93

6 39.82° 96-32-64

7 39.41° 01-31-33-63-65-95

CROWN

a 45.50° 96-32-64

b 45.50° 16-48-80

c 35.00° 96-32-64

d 35.00° 16-48-80

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Danbrite By Ernie Hawes Angles for R.I. = 1.630

89 + 16 girdles = 105 facets

8-fold, mirror-image symmetry

64 index

L/W = 1.000 T/W = 0.500 U/W = 0.500

P/W = 0.412 C/W = 0.179

Vol./W³ = 0.215

Average Brightness: COS = 85.0 % ISO = 91.8 %

PAVILION

1 39.00° 02-06-10-14-18-22-26-30-

34-38-42-46-50-54-58-62

2 40.50° 04-12-20-28-36-44-52-60

3 41.00° 64-08-16-24-32-40-48-56

g1 90.00° 04-12-20-28-36-44-52-60

g2 90.00° 64-08-16-24-32-40-48-56

CROWN

a 46.00° 04-12-20-28-36-44-52-60

b 45.00° 64-08-16-24-32-40-48-56

c 38.00° 02-06-10-14-18-22-26-30-

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d 32.00° 64-08-16-24-32-40-48-56

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Christmas Party and Workshop 2003The well-attended NMFG Christmas Party was

again held at Bill and Ina Swanter’s house. Prior tothe party a small workshop was held during whichErnie Hawes discussed several faceting machines.

The machines presented were a Facetron (onwhich Scott later started to cut a nice piece of naturalHalite), two Alpha Taurus machines, a Fac-ette, ahome-built machine (based loosely on the Raytechfaceting machine), and an Ultra-tec.

Ernie described all machines in detail and gavehis input on their various advantages and disadvan-tages.

The Fac-ette’s advantage is that it is the overall mostprecise and accurate machine. It has the truest gears

Scott Wilsonchecking out apiece of quartzwith an odd cara-mel color.

An older Alpha Taurus machine. This machine usesthe same dops as the Facetron and Graves machines.It has a very precise angle system.

This is a newer version of the Alpha Taurus. Thismachine uses larger diameter dops than the older ver-sion and the dops are held more precisely. This isErnie’s preferred machine.

and a very flat platen. With the electronic meter, thedepth of a cut can be controlled to about one mil-lionth of an inch. It would be Ernie’s machine ofchoice, if it would have a vernier to measure 1/10thdegrees.

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This is a modified handpiece for a Raytech machine.It includes a micron gauge that allows the hardstopRaytech machine to be used as a soft stop. Next to thehand piece is a “Monsterdop”, which is used to alignfaceting machines. In this case the Monsterdop is heldin a 45o table dop.

Scott Wilson workingon a piece of naturalhalite (“and that’s justplain old salt....”) on aFacetron. Below aretwo pictures showinghis progress before theChristams Party be-gan.

Two pictures of Scott’s Halite. He used baby oil aslubricant, as water doesn’t work here! Preferred lu-bricants are usually Kerosene or pure alcohol, but nei-ther was available.

This is an older Ultra-tec machine that has been up-graded with a dial indicater. This specific machinewas set up in a way that the dial indicator works incombination with the angle dial to show degrees in0.02o increments. Ernie has seen many Ultra-tecs withthe dial indicator, but none of those dial indicatorsare aligned to the angle dial in this specific way.

The late Harvey Lawler was an expert machinist andconstructed this faceting machine by himself. It isbased on the the Raytech, but is much more accurate

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and has several different features. The dops are 5/16th” diameter, making them stron-ger than the 1/4” dops on the Raytech. The handpieceis also more precisely machined and more accuratethan its model. It has a hole for a dial indicator (as

shown on the pre-vious page), butno indicator iscurrently in-stalled. The motorcontrol is set onthe side of themachine. On thisside is also acrank that is usedto lower or raisethe platform forthe handpiece. Next to the ma-chine is a set ofdops that wasmade by Harveyas well. Some ofhis dops have aspecial fine ad-

justment feature for off-setting a dopped stone.

This close-up of one of Harvey’s special dops showshow a dopped stone can be off-set very finely in bothX and Y directions to the axis of the dop.

Finally some pictures fromthe folks attending theChrismas Party, graciouslyhosted by Bill and InaSwantner in their beautifulhome.

Steve and Nancy Attaway,Stephen and Linda Vayna,and Margaret Brandt discuss-ing politics and the ice foun-tain outside.

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Ina Swanter, Dylan Houtman and Ernie Hawes shar-ing Christmas cheer and snacks.

The faceters guild enjoyingfabulous brisket, green chile po-tatoes, luscious salads, delec-table homemade bread, and luxu-rious desserts, to mention justsome of the delicious holidayfare prepared by members.

After dinner Steve andScott were Santas for the gift ex-change.

Ernie Hawes, Bill Swantner,Paul and Marge Hlava

Elaine and Mark Price, Pauland Marge Hlava.

Betty Annis and grandson,Bill Wood and his wife.

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E-mail Addresses:Edna Anthony .................... eba@bwn.netNancy and Steve Attaway.... attaway@highfiber.comCarsten & Margaret Brandt...brandtmeister@comcast.netErnie Hawes........................ ehawes7@comcast.netPaul Hlava........................... hpf1@qwest.netDylan Houtman....................dhoutman9@aol.comMariani Luigi ...................... ENVMA@IOL.ITMerrill O. Murphy ............... momurphy2@juno.comGary Peters .......................... albpet@msn.comJim Summers: ...........................commish1@worldnet.att.netBill Swantner.........................WSwantner@Comcast.netHerb and Maria Traulsen ..... htraulsen@mycidco.comStephen and Linda Vayna ..... Vayna@transatlantic.comElaine and Al Weisman ........ almgtcons@aol.comScott Wilson......................... swilson@copper.net

Facet Designer’s WorkshopBy Ernie Hawes

Nancy Attaway has again come up with anunusual and interesting design. This time it’s a cutcorner triangle. What appear to me to be three flightsof wings converging at the culet make this a trulyintriguing pattern. It’s definitely not a beginners cut,but should prove to be an interesting challenge forexperienced faceters. Below, Nancy describes howshe created The Trenchant Triangle.

“The inspiration for many of my designs comesfrom faceting a particular piece of gem rough. Often,a particular piece of pricey gem rough dictates aspecial cutting treatment. This latest design, TheTrenchant Triangle, evolved from cutting a tsavoritegarnet. The shape of this piece of rough lent itself to atriangular design. I like cut cornered triangles, as theyare easier to set in jewelry. I began with the girdleoutline and then placed a large pavilion facet at 96,32, and 64 on a 96-gear index. I worked the paviliondesign from the corner facets at 16, 48, and 80 andplaced triangular-shaped facets in pairs as I made myway to the center. This design is for stones with ashallow critical angle, like topaz, sapphire, andtsavorite garnet. Steve configured the design inGemCad and then checked the finished design in theray trace option. This step told us that the design sentlight from the table mostly through the corners. Thelight traveled into and around the stone in long lightpaths. The ray trace showed that not a lot of lightpassed back through the table. The design gave a gooddark color but, unfortunately, limited the amount ofsparkle I hoped to get. The design is hard. Precise

measurements are required, plus, a bit of cheatingadjustments may be needed. For a 7.5mm stone (whichI cut), you will need a 1.8mm cut corner.”

Our second design should be studied somewhatclosely before cutting. What appears at first to be afairly straight forward round pattern is really not quiteso simple. It’s not a difficult design but the cuttingsequence should be followed exactly. I created thisdesign for a fairly sizeable piece of Danburite. Sinceit turned out to be a rather bright pattern, I feel theplay on words in the name, Danbrite, is appropriate.(I know it’s corny, but I’ve never been very good atcoming up with names my designs.) Of course, thisdesign will work for other materials, such as topaz ortourmaline, but I think it will be especially nice forcutting some of the Danburite I acquired last year inTucson.

Workshop News

Plans for our February workshop have not beenfinalized. However, we will discuss this at themeeting January 12. If you can’t attend the meetingand wish to attend the workshop, you can call or e-mail me for details. My phone number is 821-3201,and my e-mail address is ehawes7@comcast.net.

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