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GOTCHA ROCKS Free Jewelry Instruction and Lapidary Tips and Tricks

A blog with free jewelry instruction and lapidary tips and tricks. Useful for people interested in stones and jewelry making.

Free jewelry instruction and lapidary tips for makers working with stones.

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Lapidary 101 lessons on cutting, cabochons and setting stones

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Lapidary Stone Cutting Steps

It covers the cutting steps themselves rather than the finished jewelry. It sits in the Lapidary 101 series, whose related posts walk through slab saw cutting of rough jaspers and agates and making cabochons.

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What is jasper?

A stone glossary entry defining jasper as an opaque, impure form of silica, usually red, yellow, brown, green or blue, with the common red colour caused by iron inclusions. It sits beside explainers on dinosaur bone and gembone and on Noreena jasper.

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What makes GOTCHA ROCKS different

The blog covers the cutting step of lapidary work, not only finished jewelry. Its posts cover trim-saw cutting of opal doublets, slab saws for rough jasper and agate, filling cracks in cabochon cut stones, and setting stones in V prongs. The author is a goldsmith and jewelry designer who has worked in metal arts since 1995. The shop runs alongside the blog, selling cabochon cut gemstones by type, including crazy lace agate, kaleidoscope agate, opal and rainforest jasper, plus a Cabking lapidary machine and spin-on polisher.

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