Lapidary
Green – Blue Fluorite
Green – Blue Fluorite from Mexico is available to buy from our Rough Rock Shop. Here you can see a small piece of green – blue Fluorite rough which has been polished on our diamond polishing wheels. The purpose of this video is to show the high level of polish that can be achieved on […]
Lapidary Workshop Prepared for use
After the long hard winter we have all just endured the Lapidary workshop was just too cold to be worked in, even the wood burning stove couldn’t cope, so it’s lain dormant for a quite a number of months. So yesterday we spent much of the day cleaning up out there, sorting out rocks, while […]
Lapidary Activities on Hold
I am sorry I haven’t made any new posts here for a short while it’s because I am recovering from a broken left collar bone at the moment which happened as a result of a motorcycle accident back on July 17th.
Cutting and Polishing
Welcome to our messy world of Lapidary, yes Lapidary is very messy but extremely rewarding, it really brings out the “creative” in you, sometimes with realising it. So what is Lapidary, well as far as we are concerned it’s all about taking a lump of stone, be it a semi precious piece from our stocks […]
Rough Sodalite
Here we have a fine rough Sodalite specimen weighing approximately 164 grams. Picture taken when the stone is dry. Sodalite is a deep blue mineral, often with white deposits of calcite running through it. This piece would be fine for cutting and polishing into cabochons for use in jewellery making. Sodalite has a hardness rating […]