Faceting Dop Wax and Glue

These are (in my opinion) the best two tools for attaching stones to dops: dop wax and uv-activated superglue.

The wax was made by Princeton, a hundred-year-old American company which recently went out of business, in their 'lapidary' formula with a melting temperature around 170f.  The small sticks are 4 inches long, the large sticks are 11 inches and weigh 1/4 pound.   Both may come broken because it is brittle stuff, but this does not affect use.  They may come in black, red, buff or green but all are the same formula.

Sadly Princeton has recently gone out of business after over a century of waxmaking, and while succession is planned the details are not settled yet.  We bought out their remaining stock.

For superglue we recommend JB Weld Superweld.  It acts just like normal superglue except it sets almost instantly when exposed to UV light, and each tube comes with an attached LED.  This is especially easy for beginners, fast and clean.  Like wax it can also be released with heat, though it sometimes is reluctant to let go--pure acetone will remove it relatively quickly.

Note that superglue and wax can also be readily combined--by pressing a cold stone against warm wax you can make an exact impression which the stone can then be glued into.  This hybrid method can combine the advantages of both methods.