Lapidary

LAPIDARY

AN ART & PASSION FOR TURNING PRECIOUS & SEMI PRECIOUS MINERALS INTO GEMSTONES.

As a member, you can learn how to make a cabochon at our rock shop, or utilize the shop equipment for low user fees to create things to share with your family and friends.

Making a Faceted Gemstone

Faceting is the art of precision grinding & polishing a transparent or translucent gemstone using a faceting machine.  By placing the stone on the faceting arm and changing the angle as you grind & polish you create many facets on the stone. As light passes through the polished faces it refracts creating a brilliant sparkle effect.

Rough Quartz(7)Beryl(7-8)ruby/sapphire(9) and Diamond(10) both natural and synthetic are used for jewelry.