The Zebra Stone and Printstone have arrived from Australia
The Zebra Stone and Printstone have arrived from Australia Ever since we undertook a commission just over a year ago, we have been looking for some good Zebra Stone for ourselves, and we finally found it a little while ago. At the same time that we found the Zebra Stone we were also introduced to […]
Can Anyone Identify these Rough Rocks
We recently bought a mixed box of rocks which contained two rocks we can’t identify, does anyone know what they are please? In the consignment we also received a huge lump of Labradorite and Blue Aventurine, must be over 8lb each but I haven’t measured and weighted them yet. Here are the two unidentified specimens: […]
Rough Rock Shop Update
Over the last couple of weeks we have been very busy photographing, measuring and weighing the new rough rock stock for our on line inventory. And we are very pleased to tell you that there is now lots of stock available at very competitive prices. This is an ongoing process as there is still quite […]
Two Amethyst Cabochon Sets
Over the last couple of days I have been cutting and polishing two Amethyst cabochon sets, one is triangular with a curved bottom and the other is a more traditional oval shape. These were cut from the darker parts of a couple of lumps of Chevron Amethyst, I find these pieces of chevron tend to […]
Quartz Dowsing Wand
Quartz Dowsing Wand Recently a friend of mine at work gave me an odd shaped piece of Quartz and asked me if I could make her a dowsing wand out of it. She wanted it smoothed, shaped and polished. So I said I would give it go, but told I have never made one of […]
Chevron Amethyst – is it becoming rarer
Of late we have had a few custom orders for large Amethyst pendants, the specification has mainly been as large as possible with the deepest, darkest purple available. What a challenge, looking around the only large slabs I could find were quite light purple, I called my regular suppliers but they had nothing either and […]
Amethyst Pendant
Shalini had a request for a large Amethyst pendant, her client wanted the deepest purple we had and as large as possible. The only way that we could satisfy this request was to cut the dark purple area out of a lump of chevron, thankfully this worked and the pendant, wrapped in gold filled wire […]
Bespoke Lapidary Projects
From a practicing Lapidaries point of view these stones are a challenge, the challenge being “what would this look like once it cut and polished”. This is exactly what we do here at Stamford lapidary.
Zebra Stone – How I worked it
So the first step was to take a slab of the piece the client had sent us, I did this with a normal hacksaw, no water and just took my time and I was surprised at how easily it cut through it, didn’t take long at all. I also used the hacksaw to cut out the basic shapes of the pendants.