I'm not so sure about that, tim.
I'm not sure I've figured out a thing yet, but I think I'm getting closer.
This material is lots of fun to work and there are a lot of ways you can go about it.
It would help immensley if you had a big pile of rough to work with.
Besides for the first piece I was more or lesss trying to see how high grade a cab I could find.
There is definitely high grade material in this moonstone, but once you eliminate the fractures and iron stained areas
your cabs are going to be small-ish.
But there's still a lot of experimenting to be done...........
I think I got "close" on this cut, but then again you're trying to line up something that
shimmers shinneys and moves like a...............oh never mind.
Too bad there aren't any "do-overs" so you can compare other angles.
I'm real curious how this piece would have looked just cabbed down thru the layers as it was?
Anyway here's what left of the two pieces after roughing out.