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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.
Interesting, unique and unusual matched earring cabochon pairs.
Special attention given towards cabochon designing for the purpose of bezel type settings. Most all cabs have nice beveling.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Chrysocolla is right up there among my most favorite minerals for cutting cabs from. Most all Chrysocolla makes for some stunning jewelry. Then there are some that are truly a bit more unique than others.
We have been sharing a whole lot of different Chrysocolla varieties on my forum.
I especially like a Chrysocolla with Hematite, Tenorite, [...]
Posted in Gemstone Rough and Slabs | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Designing Gemstone Cabochons | No Comments »
Friday, April 17th, 2009
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, [...]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Gemstone Announcements / Promotional | 2 Comments »
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
A Glance at Jewelry – Scale Silversmithing Methods by William Fretz DesignsÂ
I would like to acknowledge the Lapidary Journal / Jewelry Artist magazine. Permission to do this blog entry was kindly provided by William Fretz. The original article was from the November 2007 issue.Forging is a controlled method of moving metal by stretching or [...]
Posted in Lapidary Shop Tutorials | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Link to forum discussion
All of the cabochons that this person makes are glass and they come from two main processes. The first process she usees for cabochons is lampwork (or torch work). These are made in a very similar process to the beads that I also create and sell. Flameworked cabochons allow for very [...]
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