The Transfer of a Gemstone

Sapphires

Going through my newly aquired sapphires.
https://youtu.be/NwS8la68UCg

Just released from the dop

Set one today. This is a feldspare I believe to be a orthoclase stone. The hardness is around a 6.5. It took a very nice polish treating it just like quartz. These other stones are a cabochon style and are being offered for custom ring size or untill they are a size 7 set in silver. So if you like speak up. $30 per ring.

You can find the ring at my store along with other jewelry I have made.
Get your bling on,
Scott

All three off the dop

I finally broke down, wrapped the stone with a wet paper towel, got the torch out and heated up the dop ever so slightly a little at a time to allow the heat to do its thing without over heating the stone. Even after the dop released from the stoneand as I was holding the stone I could feel how the stone had absorbed the heat quickly as I handled the stone it cooled down, I washed the stone, cleaned, took the pictures, weighed and measured.
                           CRYSTAL QUARTZ Rand's Cut Corner 53.65ct 27.78mm x 20.17.

Well two are off the dop.

Not off the Dop Yet!

Winters Day Fun!

Getting that Gemstone Off The Dop!

Love this stuff as practice makes perfect, well almost.

Today we look at the Sapphire and what I am going to do with my rough. I now have all the ability to polish this #Gemstone. But after watching this video I am into grading what I have. This guy knows his stuff and I want to do right by the stone. Sapphires like Turquoise take special handeling to bring out the best in the stone. That is why I feel I have graduated from Rocks to Stones. Don't get me wrong I still love Rocks and hounding but I am finding easier ways to get my Rough Off! But for now we are polishing and grading. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/f1n1FvWBQEg

Faceting Large Quartz

My Shop

Here we are in the creating room, my bench.

Faceting with a Facetron Faceting Machine and my student learning center.
Everything I am doing is because of my discoveries on the internet and the discovery of natural minerals that could be taken from the earth, polished and set into a piece of jewelry that one of the women in my life wear daily. Most things I have made are being worn today and they don't last in my possesion. My collection is worn I don't get a chance but to take a picture. So it has become easy letting my work go, I do have an attachment to the piece but letting it go is a good thing and makes room for the new.
It makes me get better.
I hope to help people who maybe interested in the lapidary arts along with the art of setting that art. The amount of time put into this hobby will never let it be a business but we have to be able to afford our hobby so we must have a business. After all it is the greatest Tax Right Off to practice my passions. I did not make up the rules, but I will use them to my best interest.

So there you go, to doing something I love and want to share. Anyways it helps feed me and my soul.