I love to create things with my hands
Lapidary & Jewelry making I have been a rock hound forever & have been collecting the tools to do some jewelry making & lapidary work. Tools include 4 tumblers, 14" Slab saw, trim saw, cabochon machine, vibrating lapidary machine & a silver smithing bench. Hope to make a sphere machine sometimes andworking on a rotating lap machine. The equipment |
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Double and single rock tumblers going 24/7 |
Silver smith bench made from an oldcomputer bench |
Raytech
Gemlab and a Lortone trimsaw/cabochon machine |
16" Covington vibrating lap machine |
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Almost done! Final tumbling/polish stage |
10" felt wheel used with Cerium Oxide final polishing larger pieces |
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Sorting and cleaning screen. |
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| The results |
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Bracelet: Silver fab with a Rhodocrosite cabochon. My first. |
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Matching earings for the bracelet on the left. |
White crazy lace agate below. |
Cabochon cut from the stone on the left. |
Making the bezel from square wire & gallery wire. |
Add chain & it's Finished. |
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Cut and polished stone with silver setting |
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This is a carving that I need to finish. The stone is California jade. |
Dyed freshwater Pearls and handmade silver chain links |
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Fossilized / agatized sea snail Pendant. |
Windchimes: Brazillian agate slabs, beads & driftwood. |
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Citrine & garnet set in silver hoops |
Fossil snail pin with forged silver back. |
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Blue and green glass beads with hand made silver links. |
Red glass beads with hand-forged links |
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Green glass beads and hand made silver links. |
Pin: Matrix Opal, Garnet, Amethyst and Citrine |
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Boulder Opal (AKA Matrix opal). Opal in a Hematite matrix. |
| Plume agate I think. Someone correct me if that's incorrect please. |
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Jasper (agatized) Stone aquired and set for a freind |
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wood (limbcast). Excellent detail. 5" diameter |
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Polished
jasper (brecciated) and banded agate (skinned?) |
| Agate, Petrified
wood (center) ahd Jasper |
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Polished red jasper |
Rock hounding It was my Grandfather that gave me the rockhound bug. He took me Opal digging when I was 6 years old. I like to walk the Oregon beaches hunting for fossils, agates, petrified wood & jasper. They are quite beautiful when tumbled to a shiny finish. The specimens below will be simply amazing when polished. |
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