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TaoGem offers inexpensive gemstone cabochon supplies for special jewelry design. Interesting Unique and unusual loose cut gemstones. Beveled and polished gemstone supplies for the artistic designer who truly is searching for something special that will support his or her own creative perspective. Standard run of the mill cabochons are readily available on the internet. Our Gemstones offer many art, crafts, and gemstone jewelry design possibilities. Custom lapidary orders are available upon request for most gemstone material.TaoGem's Lapidary / Gemstone Community Forum offers support for this site as well as a wide variety of discussions related to the gemstone arena. Our Gemstone Community offers something for everyone involved at every level and within any gemstone related niche, including Cutters, Wholesalers, Resellers, Designers and many others.
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Be Sure To Shop My Gemstone Cabochon Store !Recently I did a little poll on my forum asking other lapidaries how their online sales have been doing. There were a couple of comments that stood out. First, although the number of folks utilizing the poll were few, online gemstone and jewelry sales seem to be in decline past few months. The month of [...]
This was the first time I had purchased a ring blank to set a stone in. When I saw it in the magazine it appeared to have a bezel type setting with four prongs. I thought was simply going to be able and push the floral looking bezel and prongs up against the gemstone.
After it [...]
Been having fun again with more multi gemstone groups that are excellent for jewelry designing.. Especially if your a silversmith and like interesting and unique pieces..
What makes the group gemstone cabochon sets a little more interesting, is the way they are cut from the original mineral slab. Somewhat similar to making a quality pair of [...]
Been a while since I have added a new entry.. All the action is on the forum !
Was finally fortunate enough to have a member from our local club come over and walk me through some basic silver soldering. She was a big help. Little things like working the torch properly, using the flux correctly, [...]
About a year ago I began exploring various marketing and promotional techniques for the purpose of boosting my online presence.
I think just like myself, a lot of brand new online lapidary related business owners find ourselves somewhat overwhelmed with the many different possibilities that just sorta seem to present themselves to us as we embark [...]
After some trials and errors, and lots of help from other forum members, I was finally able to complete my first bezel gemstone pendant.
There were some difficulties going through the first soldering.
Any way, worth a blog post!
If your here, show me some love and tell me how you like it. I am always interested in [...]
I just felt like posting how some examples of multiple gemstone sets that are excellent for use in bezel and other silver smithing kinds of settings.
I always cut gemstone cabochon sets like these from the same slab. The idea being to have an awesome matching appearance by utilizing colors, grain, and or combinations of mineral [...]
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