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Originally Posted by Midnight
oooooo Pan... we could have some fun here.. I'm a jewelry designer. *grin*
" wanna see my cabochons baby? "
roflmao. I have a couple thousand cabochons in various sizes and from many types of stone. let me know if you are looking for anything in particular. (for your "rock" collection)
dont know if you are interested in working with opals at all, let me know before you buy some rough and have at it - they are an itch with a capital B to work with, and I have some preformed ones that i could pass along to ya that you could practice polishing on before you wrecked your rough teaching yourself on it.
malachite, ironstone, chrysocilla, rose quartz, onyx, a couple dozen types of agate, tiger eye, moonstone (brown and blue), rubies, emeralds, lapis lazuli... gaah the list would go on and on...
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I knew I liked you for a reason.
Cool, I'd love to work with some good opal. Malachite, Chrysocolla and emeralds interest me, from your list. As stated above, I am in love with kyanite and lepidolite. I cut an absolutely beautiful lepidolite for a pendant and was amazed at how nice it came out.
I just bought a bag of uncut/uncleaned/unsearched emeralds, supposedly straight from the mine, off EBay. Hopefully they'll be worthy of some cuts, polishes and wire wraps. On the other hand if it is a ripoff, I won't have lost much and will know better next time I see a deal too good to be true.
If they are and they sell well I'll probably use the company and buy their rubies, sapphires and more emeralds.
I could go on..... I was worried I was alone on here in my love for the crystals and lapidary arts.
BTW I'm also learning a lot about the metaphysics and power of the crystals. I guess it's the pagan/new ager inside of me trying hard to breakthrough.