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Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
I have had several requests for drilled gemstones. So, the other day I went out and purchased a bench style drill press.
I decided to get right to it and try making some necklace and bracelet sets. Since I had a request for a set made from some fossil coral, it seemed like a great place [...]
Posted in Gemstone Cabochon Tutorial | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Just thought I might share a neat Imperial Stichtite and Zoisite gemstone cabochon I made with anyone out there listening.
Been playing a little with druzy materials. Ever since we started talking about it on our forum.
Some of the members showed some pretty cool druzy gemstone cabochons. I instantly began to find sources for different [...]
Posted in Designing Gemstone Cabochons | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
New E-Store Link
Ever since I started using the Wordpress e-Commerce Plugin by Instinct Entertainment customers have been lining up complaining about how difficult it is to shop with. Not user friendly at all.
In response to that, I created a new ZenCart for shopping gemstone cabochon jewelry supplies.
Much more user friendly.
Gemstone categories are broken up into [...]
Posted in Gemstone Announcements / Promotional | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Every imaginable type of jasper for gemstone jewelry designing. For a silversmith who uses gemstones in your settings. For designing silver metal clay gemstone jewelry pieces, or for any other type of gemstone jewelry. Especially any gemstone jewelry designs that use bezel settings.
Here are just a few examples of different types of jasper gemstone cabochons [...]
Posted in Gemstone Cabochon Bezel Setting | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I was thinking today about some of the things people, places and things that I was exposed to when I first decided to learn about how to make gemstone cabochons. Not to mention the long term desire to learn how to make gemstone jewelry. More specific, gemstone jewelry that I knew would be designed using [...]
Posted in Gemstone Cabochon Bezel Setting | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
There are a lot of different types of Fossilized Coral, not to mention fossilized material as a whole. The one I have some experience with cutting for customers who make custom gemstone, bezel type setting jewelry is this Indonesian Fossilized Coral.
Here is an example of what I am most familiar with shaping cabochons from.
Here are [...]
Posted in Gemstone Rough and Slabs | 3 Comments »