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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 !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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had some of this a while back and the cabochons turned out excellent. At the time I did not know what it was called. At that time, I had thought it might have been a type of Wave Jasper.
The other day a friend of mine gave me another piece of rough of this same [...]
The single most important hurdle for a beginner is getting at least somewhat of a handle on the graduated stages from grinding, sanding and a nice polish on a gemstone cabochon.
Believe me.. I remember all to well. Bought my first combo unit. A Highland Park. It came with one course 80 , and 400 grit [...]
I wanted to sorta be prepared for my first silver metal clay beginners class coming up the end of the month.
I decided to practice what I preach from a previous blog entry, and will design my first piece more around the design / shape of the stones. Then work second with the shape of the [...]
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