How to Make Jewelry: Lapidary?
How do stones and minerals turn into polished stones and jewelry. If you can maybe give me some websites to check it for ANY information on this subject or if you can tell me ANYTHING you might now that would be great! Thank you so much!!!
Rough stones become smooth by “tumbling.” A Tumbled Stone can become jewelry by wire wrapping the stone or attaching a bail to create a pendant. Additional shaping of the stone, or drilling a hole into the stone, is done with the proper training and tools. These tools include drill presses, diamond tip or carbide tip drill bits, and a constant source of lubrication (water drip).
Personally, I would love to learn lapidary but don’t have the time, space, or money for it. So I’ll stick with buying stones already prepared or wrap my own. Having a tumbler is cool and allows me to find interesting rocks on my own. But there are places where tumbled stones can be purchased. Since I’m a truck driver now, I get mine already tumbled at Flying J truck stops! Just need to keep the wire on the truck!
Here are just two sites that show a small portion of what can be done with wire wrapping.
http://jewelrywirewrap.com/Pendants/pendants.htm
http://stonehappyjewelry.com/
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