Interesting Unique And Unusual Jasper Minerals Used In Custom Gemstone Jewelry Design

May 18, 2008

I have been sending out a great many gemstones made of a variety of minerals to gemstone jewelry designers for over a year now. If you have subscribed to my site then you have probably been following along as I add new blog entries. More to the point of this blog post is another recent […]

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How to My First Silver Metal Clay and Bezel Gemstone Jewelry Design Setting With Imperial Spider Jasper Mineral Tutorial

May 13, 2008

I wanted to sorta be prepared for my first silver metal clay beginners class coming up the end of the month. I decided to practice what I preach from a previous blog entry, and will design my first piece more around the design / shape of the stones. Then work second with the shape of […]

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Gemstone Jewelry Design With Imperial Spider Jasper Mineral

May 10, 2008

One of what has become a favorite mineral of mine is this semi precious Imperial Spider Jasper. It is a rather rare Jasper. I have never even seen it before. While visiting another lapidary up in Bonners Ferry Idaho, he reluctantly parted with a very small piece of this fabulous material. It was enough to […]

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Wave Jasper Gemstone Mineral Used In Custom Jewelry Design Work

May 4, 2008

It can have so much color and pattern variation. Gray wave red jasper is very similar to red bend jasper in color. I cut this Wave Jasper Gemstone for a customer. As you can see, this Jasper mineral sure has the potential for some beautiful gemstone jewelry. The Wave Jasper Slab above is available for […]

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Gemstones for Metal Clay – Art Clay Silver – Silver Metal Clay Jewelry Making

April 28, 2008

Now that I have some time under my belt cutting, shaping, sanding and polishing gemstones for others who are skilled jewelry designers, I am now ready to learn some type of jewelry making. After selling to so many talented jewelry designers and witnessing the many interesting jewelry making techniques, I have decided to pursue metal […]

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Beautiful Graveyard Plume Agate for Gemstone Jewelry Design

April 25, 2008

Until recently I have not really cut and polished a lot of Plume type agates. Recently we began weekly contest entries for various cabochons. Each week is different and can be based upon color, type of mineral, or shape. It was as a result of entering that I finished one of my favorite cabs. I […]

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Ocean Jasper from rough and slabs to beautiful cabochon pendants and matched pairs

April 23, 2008

One of my favorite minerals are the different ocean jaspers. Especially the orbicular jasper variety mined on the coast of Madagascar. Here is an example of a beautiful specimen of “Ocean Jasper” rough. I really love the way a finished cabochon looks. Here is a rarer red ocean jasper matched pair. Ideal for designing custom […]

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Matched Gemstone Earring Pairs Made For Jewelry Design

April 19, 2008

There is only one method for a lapidary to create matched gemstone pairs to be used in custom earring type jewelry designs. It is necessary for the lapidary to begin with a solid piece of gemstone mineral in rough form. There is no other way because we have to have two matching slabs from the […]

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How Gemstone Jewelry Designers Learn

April 17, 2008

Link To The Lapidary Forum Discussions. The Jewelry Designer Jewelry designers are people who design special one of a kind jewelry pieces in their own unique style using any number of techniques. The pieces are considered designer jewelry when the design is a specific piece of jewelry even though at times another designer may copy […]

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Rainforest Jasper Gemstone Cabochons Jewelry Design Beautiful Pendants and Matched Pairs

April 14, 2008

  An example of some beautiful Rainbow Jasper in slab form. This particular example really has a great variety of jasper colors. I do have this available in stock and can be cut and shaped in any way that a jewelry designer would like. I have talked before about how important it can be for […]

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