Plume Agate, Barstow, CA
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This glowing quartz inside this geode I split open. UV-C lighting. Cady Mountains, California.
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Cady Mountains, CA agate, reactive under germicidal irradiation (UV-C)
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395
Made a charoite ring in a similar style to my emerald ring!
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555
Couple other fun things done today.
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Just a quick and dirty metal fennec with star diopside eyes and nose.
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Tore down an 80 year old rock wall full of awesome stuff
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Gold-flaked Memphis style muddy ribs, for my V-day love!
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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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673
Lots of Calico Jasper!
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617
Carved skulls are great.
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486
This is by far the most beautiful material I've cut - lepidolite with pink tourmaline, mined almost 100 years ago.
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This freaking emerald!
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This tree agate made for killer ring material, I can't stop staring at it.
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First finished ring.
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121 carats of star garnet!
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511
I love surprise rock packages.
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Finally polished some of that gorgeous lepidolite/tourmaline!
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The view inside this freshly-cut quartz boulder...
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Celestial themed set. Star ruby and moonstone.
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331
By request! Close ups!
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Horseshoe-cut Apache Tear
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Made my man an emerald ring!
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Mount Baldy Lapis Bug
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Finally done washing and (mostly) sorting!
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714
Freshly-cut Apache tear obsidian
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681
Just finished this jade ring!
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Silver Lace Agate
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592
Huge freaking ruby!
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Fat Fire Opal Slab
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530
Here's what I do around the shop!
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Made a little picture box for rock slabs
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373
It's like looking down at a lake from the sky.
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760
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403
Simple wire-wrapped garnet cabochon.
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405
Tricky rounded color-zoned amethyst
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524
Sweet Fluorite Specimen. Did the lighting stand myself.
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Bitchn lapis
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Star rubies!
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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
Did some felt-lining of wooden boxes for finished cabochons.
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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
Epidote and copper ring awaiting electro forming
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382
Tri-color Tourmaline from Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA. Black, Green, and Colorless.
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418
Brazilian Emerald Cabochon. First time working with the material.
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830
Just some opal I found
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466
Best one made so far!
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Making a copper/sapphire ring. Almost electro forming time.
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1906
How about a somewhat uncommon UV-reactive sapphire?
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395
Dravite and Schorl Tourmaline w/Quartz. Jurupa Mountains, CA.
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607
Fat 22 carat 100% untreated ruby
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Heated and quenched a rock to get a couple hundred sapphires!
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534
Spent a lot of time cutting this fire agate.
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Wulfenite crystals in lead-sulfide matrix.
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Killer Micro-Tourmaline Cluster, Oceanview Mine, Pala, CA.
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Fun times with chemistry
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