Plume Agate, Barstow, CA
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946
Someone requested more. I messed this up a little, but w/e, it adds character. Star stone pendant. Star garnet, black star sapphire, star ruby, black star diopside.
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5
673
Introducing a new internet challenge - the TURBO SHOTGUN!
2
5
701
Gold-flaked Memphis style muddy ribs, for my V-day love!
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248
Just a quick and dirty metal fennec with star diopside eyes and nose.
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611
Made a charoite ring in a similar style to my emerald ring!
10
2
555
This glowing quartz inside this geode I split open. UV-C lighting. Cady Mountains, California.
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1165
Couple other fun things done today.
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2534
Made my man an emerald ring!
1908
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94075
Cady Mountains, CA agate, reactive under germicidal irradiation (UV-C)
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399
This is by far the most beautiful material I've cut - lepidolite with pink tourmaline, mined almost 100 years ago.
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4392
Celestial themed set. Star ruby and moonstone.
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1
331
This tree agate made for killer ring material, I can't stop staring at it.
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6948
121 carats of star garnet!
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1
511
This freaking emerald!
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2
615
Tore down an 80 year old rock wall full of awesome stuff
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4
1239
Carved skulls are great.
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4
486
First finished ring.
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5
109
Finally done washing and (mostly) sorting!
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27
714
Epidote and copper ring awaiting electro forming
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1
382
Just finished this jade ring!
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5
1845
Bitchn lapis
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1057
Horseshoe-cut Apache Tear
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260
Freshly-cut Apache tear obsidian
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4
681
Tricky rounded color-zoned amethyst
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5
524
Here's what I do around the shop!
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5046
The view inside this freshly-cut quartz boulder...
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98
Rare 58 Carat Blue Quartz (Indicolite Tourmaline Inclusions) Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA (Illuminated shot)
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530
Spent a lot of time cutting this fire agate.
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12645
Fun times with chemistry
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346
Some new stones in today!
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1
421
Best one made so far!
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4
54
Mount Baldy Lapis Bug
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1
369
Lots of Calico Jasper!
12
8
617
Making a copper/sapphire ring. Almost electro forming time.
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14
1906
Wulfenite crystals in lead-sulfide matrix.
10
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352
Simple wire-wrapped garnet cabochon.
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4
405
Sweet Fluorite Specimen. Did the lighting stand myself.
17
3
839
Did some felt-lining of wooden boxes for finished cabochons.
3
2
1200
Me standing next to a wall of quartz with tourmalines as thick as my arm and just as long. Nuevo, CA.
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434
Fat 22 carat 100% untreated ruby
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938
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2
403
Heated and quenched a rock to get a couple hundred sapphires!
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6
534
Fat Fire Opal Slab
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4
530
Dravite and Schorl Tourmaline w/Quartz. Jurupa Mountains, CA.
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3
607
Made a little picture box for rock slabs
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1
373
Brazilian Emerald Cabochon. First time working with the material.
7
0
830
How about a somewhat uncommon UV-reactive sapphire?
7
1
395
It's like looking down at a lake from the sky.
17
8
760
Star rubies!
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669
Just some opal I found
8
2
466
GE (General Electric) is totally lying about this being a UV blacklight. They even list 395nm on the bulb. It's not even real Woods glass. What a waste of $15. Should've bought from China instead.
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418
256 pounds of seam agate, silver-laced onyx/agate, petrified palm wood/root, and rainbow jasper from Calico, CA.
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1061
Killer Micro-Tourmaline Cluster, Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA.
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1
692
Huge freaking ruby!
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824
I love surprise rock packages.
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496
Silver Lace Agate
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592