Rocks, Silver, Jewelry, nuff said
25 Oct 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs Tags: agate, cabbing, Crazy lace agate, detroit agate, dino bone, dinosaur bone, flowering tube, flowering tube onyx, fordite, lace agate, lapidary, Mexican lace agate, polished rock, rock, rough rock, slabs
Today was a great day for cutting up some rock. The weather was great and everything just fell into place. I had a bit of Fordite, Dino bone, flowering tube onyx and Crazy Lace Agate that were just asking for a little attention. I had never cabbed Fordite and found it to be really easy. The fun was trying to maximize the patterns in the rough. Some are just wild. But oh so much fun..
I hope your Saturday was as fun as mine!
Thanks for stopping by..
13 Sep 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs, Handmade jewelry, Pendants Tags: agate, Berrendo agate, cabbing, dino bone, dinosaur, dinosaur bone, http://wordpress.com/tag/jewelry/, red agate, thunder egg, wire weaved pendant, wire wrapped, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant, wire wrapping
I got to cab for a short while today. I was wanting to polish up some of the Berrendo agate slices from a few weeks ago and I couldn’t find them. I had put them away. So away that even I couldn’t find them. Finally after going thru all my other lil slabettes and I have a few, It dawned on me just where I had stashed the Berrendos. Well by that time I only got to cab a couple of things. The Berrendo of course and a slice of a thunder egg I picked up last summer in NM. I am also going to add pictures of the Dino bone wrap I finished last weekend.
Have a great week!
24 Aug 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs Tags: agate, Berrendo agate, cabbing, cabochon, dino bone, dinosaur bone, Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, rough rock
I was given some really nice dino bone on the Taogem forum from the Taogem himself. Its a really nice agatized slab and it has some amazing cell structure. I had also bought some Berrendo agate nodules and love the bright red colors. This morning I took advantage of the cool morning and cut some the stones.
There’s a new contest on the Taogem forum and I will be cabbing a bit so I can find just the right stone to put in the piece. Its been a lil while since I made a piece by just silversmithing. Lately I have only been setting a stone now and then. This will be interesting. Here are the pictures of the slabs and cabs.
14 Jun 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs, Pendants, wire weaved pendants Tags: cabbing, cabochon, chrysocolla, malachite, pink botswana agate, Pink tourmaline, tourmaline, wire weaved pendant, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant
Today was a great day to get things done around the house like cabbing and starting up some pendants. lol, ok, so I wasn’t talking about washing clothes and cleaning house. Thats a given, for Saturday. Anyhoo, I got to finish a couple of cabs, start a few others, as well as finish up a pendant and start a few. Here my hard work for the day even tho it doesn’t seem like much.. I’m only posting the finished stuff.
30 May 2009 1 Comment
in Cuts & cabs Tags: cabochons, cabs, copper, fire agate, lapidary, metals, opals, picture jasper, rock, rocks, silver wire, slabs
I was out with my cousin and Aunt when we saw a sign that said estate sale, so of course we had to see what they were selling. We pulled in and first thing I saw was a cab template. Now if there’s a template you know there’s rocks or cabs or sumthin! I asked for rocks and was told nope not any, wait maybe. Haven’t pulled everything out yet. No, it wasn’t that early. They were just really busy. Well a guy said let me show you something, tell me what you think. He led me to the back yard and against the wall was a small tub with some cut rock. He said he wanted to sell it but not sure how much. Well It was hard to tell what all was in it but needless to say I bought it and on the way out another box that had metal in it. I told him it looked like silver but, I wasn’t sure. Some of it is copper for sure, but I will have to check the rest out. At the bottom of the box there was some silver bezel wire and silver wire the rest I don’t know. Anyway I bought it all. Here are some clickable pics.
26 May 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs, Handmade jewelry, Pendants, wire weaved jewelry Tags: boulder opal, cabbing, cabochon, royal sahara jasper, slabs, wire weaved jewelry, wire weaved pendant, wire weaving, wire wrapped jewelry, wire wrapped pendant, wire wrapping
Its been great, the one extra day. Every weekend should be three days. Got lots done the cabbing in the last post. Even finished a couple of wraps. I was looking thru the slabs and pieces of rock I had because the cabbing contest on the gemstone board and found the RSJ slices. Well take a look at one of the slices, what do you see?
Here they are:
24 May 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs Tags: boulder opal, cabbing, cabochon, lapidary, lapidary work
I suppose a part of happiness is doing what you like best. The only problem I seem to find is that there is little time for it. For now anyway.. Today was an exception. I polished up some of the boulder opal that was cut last weekend and hope to keep going till the end of this weekend heres a few pics for now.
18 May 2009 Leave a comment
in Cuts & cabs Tags: cabochon, cuts, fire agate, fire opal, Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, slabs, sunstones
I was up early and to be kind to my neighbors I started with cabbing a couple of Oregon Sunstones, a Mexican fire opal as well as a couple of MH poppy jaspers. The jasper was green and poppies look like sunflowers in the stone. Well if you know me, you know how I love sunflowers. So I will be looking to get some more of that done. Then as it got a lil later in the day I moved outside to the saw and to cut up some of the rock I had been eyeing for awhile. The colors in the Boulder opal are great. Can’t wait to get some cabbed.
By noon the heat was getting to be too much so it was over. For now anyway… 🙂
I hope you enjoyed da pics and have had a cool weekend. Back to work manana, no rest for the um wicked… or whatever.
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